I had got 49.6 percentile in jee mains 2nd shift 2021 and am an SC candidate can I have a scope to go through any better nit...
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Hi
With 49.6 percentile
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Your rank will be around 515592 - 579600 as per our rank predictor at
Your sc rank will be around 45,000 .
With above rank, you have very low chances for any NITs.
You may not even qualify jee main.
For example,
In 2020, qualifying cutoff for sc category was 50.1760245 and jee main 2021 expected qualifying cut off percentile is 50-55 percentile.
You can check the same at our page the link is provided below
https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff
You need at least around 9,000 sc rank i. e around 86 percentile to get into any NIT.
For example,
under other state quota closing rank for some of the lower NIT for SC category is provided below as 6th josaa counselling 2020 :-
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NIT Mizoram :- civil engineering :- 8376 sc rank
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Nit Ap, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering :- 8450 sc rank
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National Institute of Technology Agartala, Production Engineering :- 9207 sc rank
You can verify the above at
https://josaa.nic.in/Result/Result/currentorcr.aspx
Above prediction of is on the basis of past year data but cut off/closing rank for colleges keeps changing every year depending upon many factors like number of students that appeared in the examination, difficulty level of the JEE main question paper for different shifts etc
To have a personalised report on your chances of getting a college you can go through our college predictor, it will give you 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
Try to get at least sc rank of around 9000 i. e at least 85-86 percentile. To improve your score in remaining sessions of JEE main 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-april/
If you have any other doubt then you can always reach us to clear them :) we are always available to help you out and guide you
Thankyou
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