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Dear aspirant,
As you mentioned you have got 80 percentile in jee mains and considering you are from category, your rank would be somewhat around 2L -2.15L. I would request you to mention your exact category rank in the comment box so that I can give you a clear picture of which college and in which branch you do have good chances to get in.
As per my calculations ,your category rank would be somewhat around 11k. So in this you would low branches in good nits like jamshedpur,Silchar, durgapur. For a bit lower nits like Agartala,Meghalaya you can get a branches like mechanical and electrical.
For college cut off you can check out the link given below-
https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff For college prediction you can check out the link given below-
https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer
Your expected Overall JEE Mains Paper-1 Rank will be around 204600 - 230000. With your JEE Mains Paper-1 Percentile you have very less chances of getting seat in NIT through you belong to ST Category. You might get less preferred branch though you get seat in any NIT. If you want IT Branches then you can also try for Management quota seats in Private Engineering Colleges or try to prepare well in next attempt of JEE Mains entrance exam. You can also try Private Engineering Colleges in which you can get seat without JEE Mains exam consideration.
List of Colleges are given below.
NITs you have chances of getting seat.
Predict your JEE Mains rank using JEE Mains Rank Predictor. Its prediction is based on previous year's data.
https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-rank-predictor
Go through JEE Mains cutoffs using below links. These cut-offs are based on previous year's cut-off trends. So, you have have a look of cut-offs of JEE Mains of various colleges using below links.
https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff
To know the closing and opening ranks for NITs, IITs, IIITs etc go through below link.
https://josaa.nic.in/Result/Result/currentorcr.aspx
Predict which colleges you can get for your JEE Mains rank using below link. This analysis is based on previous year's opening and closing ranks of various colleges.
Hope this helps you.
Best of Luck!!
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