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I got 88 percentile in jee mains 2021, can I get into any gec? (general cat.)


Anushka Shukla 16th Jul, 2021
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ADITYA KUMAR Student Expert 25th Aug, 2021

Hi

With 88 percentile


With this rank, your chances of getting a seat in NIT, IIITs is extremely low. Even to get into lower NITs under other state you should have got at least around 45000 - 50,000 rank i. e 95.5 - 96 percentile

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But yes, as per past year trend,

Yes , you  have chances in GEC i. e  government engineering college  but in lower ones , some of which are listed below along with the link for their previous year cutoff :-

-------) Jabalpur Engineering College, Jabalpur:- https://www.careers360.com/colleges/jabalpur-engineering-college-jabalpur/cut-off

-------) Engineering College Nowgong, Chhatarpur:- https://www.careers360.com/colleges/engineering-college-nowgong-chhatarpur/cut-off

-------) Institute of People's Science and Technology, Chitrakoot :- https://www.careers360.com/colleges/institute-of-peoples-science-and-technology-chitrakoot/cut-off

To get the complete list of colleges which you can get on the basis of the category you belong to,  your home state, your gender etc, the link for  jee main college predictor is provided below

https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer

To improve your score in your remaining attempts of JEE main to get into nits etc, you should focus on your preparation go through previous year question papers ,mock test papers and to help you in your preparation we have jee main knockout out for you, for which  is provided below

https://learn.careers360.com/knockout-jee-main

To help you further,

To give you an idea of qualifying cut off, JEE mains 2020  qualifying  CUT OFF percentile to be eligible for jee advanced is given below for different category

>>>> General :-     90.3765335

>>>> GEN-EWS :-  70.2435518

>>>> OBC-NCL :-  72.8887969

>>>> SC     :-           50.1760245

>>>> ST :-                39.0696101

>>>> PwD :-            0.0618524

You can check the same at our page the link is provided below

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff


Thank you

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