JEE Main 2026: Preparation Tips & Study Plan
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Hello Aspirant,
If you have not submitted either EWS certificate or undertaking for EWS certificate then you won't be considered as EWS candidate. So with General category you are not eligible for JEE-Advance.
As the cut-offs are released along with the JEE-Main 2021 result so now it is clear that at what percentile the candidate is eligible for JEE-Advance 2021. As per the NTA, qualifying cut-offs goes like :-
==>> Common Rank List (CRL) - 87.8992241-100.0000000 Percentile
==>> GEN-EWS - 66.2214845-87.8950071 Percentile
==>> Other Backward Classes (OBC-NCL) - 68.0234447-87.8950071 Percentile
==>> Scheduled Caste (SC) - 46.8825338-87.8950071 Percentile
==>> Scheduled Tribe (ST) - 34.6728999 87.8474721 Percentile
==>> PwD - 0.0096375-87.8273359 Percentile
So with 85 percentile you are NOT qualified for JEE-Advance 2021.
You can check out more details about JEE-Main 2021 qualifying cut-offs from the link given below :-
https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff
To have a list of all those colleges which you can get based upon your marks, category, and state you can use JEE-Main College Predictor:-
https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer
I hope this information helps you.
Good Luck!!
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