Greetings of the day

Firstly, congrats on successful completion of your MET exam. The cut-off trends keeps changing every year and it depends on the number of students attempting the exam, difficulty level, number of available seats, etc. With 98/240, its a bit hard to get Instrumentation branch in their main campus, i.e. Manipal . The cut-off of Instrumentation branch at Manipal campus was 10,906 in the year 2020. Just apply to their counselling process and as it is conducted in different rounds, your chances of securing a seat increases.

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/met-cutoff

You can have a look at the cut-off trends from the above link

https://www.careers360.com/college-predictors/met-college-predictor/results?exam_id=2280&counselling_id=4764&rank=20000&rank_entered=20000#

Hope I've cleared all your doubts!!

All the best for your future endeavours