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I got 98.09 percentile in February jee mains 2021. should I prepare for jee advance or jee mains?


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aayushikhandelwal2018 13th Mar, 2021
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sreemoyeebha 13th Mar, 2021
Hello,
Congratulations it's a very good marks that you have obtained. You are eligible for jee advance ....... But still you  should check your rank .
All the best
Thank you......
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Atif Ali 13th Mar, 2021
Hello,

98.09 percentile is a very good percentile and you are eligible to appear for JEE Advanced even if you belong to General category. You should check the your branch and Institute of IITs, NITs, IIITs, or GFTIs by visiting the official website of JOSAA, copy and this link in your browser

https://josaa.nic.in/Result/Result/currentorcr.aspx

However your rank would fall somewhere between 19539-21965, still you want to check your rank by yourself please click this link



In case you fail to convert the IITs or NITs you can see other colleges according to your rank by clicking this link

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

Good Luck.
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Anurag Khanna 13th Mar, 2021

Hello Aspirant,

See the qualifying cut-off percentiles which needs to be cleared by any candidate to sit in JEE-Advance is released along with the final result of JEE-Main and for JEE-Main 2021 the final result will be released after all four attempts will be completed and the final result will be on the basis of your best score amongst different attempts. However basis on previous year's cut-off trends we can help you with the expected qualifying cut-offs for this year :-

  • Common Rank List (CRL) - 90- 95 Percentile
  • GEN-EWS - 70- 75 Percentile
  • Other Backward Classes (OBC-NCL) - 70- 75 Percentile
  • Scheduled Caste (SC) - 50- 55 Percentile
  • Scheduled Tribe (ST) - 40- 45 Percentile
  • PwD - 1-2 Percentile

According to the mentioned percentile and category your rank is expected to be in the range of 19539 - 21965, you can check out marks Vs ranks Vs Percentile from the link given below :-

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-marks-vs-percentile

Or

You can also use JEE-Main Rank Predictor to predict your rank :-

The percentile which you have mentioned is good enough to qualify you for JEE-Advance 2021 and even on such percentile you can get into good NITs but I would recommend you to prepare for JEE-Advance 2021 . Note that in above table it is not the actual cut-off for JEE-Main 2021 but expected on the basis of previous year's analysis. You can check out previous year's cut-off trends 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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