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i have got 79 percentile in jee mains and I am from sC category which college I would get??


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Jeevan 12th Jul, 2022
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ADITYA KUMAR Student Expert 12th Jul, 2022

Hi


With   79   percentile

---------------------) Your sc rank will be around  12k-13k rank

Now,

Making  prediction is difficult as  cutoff  depends upon various factors like :-

-----------) number of students/ candidates  that appeared in the  jee main exam,

-----------) number of available seats,

-----------) jee main examination difficulty level.

-----------) the branch you want,

-----------) the category you belong etc.

-----------) your rank in jee main


But yes,

When we go through previous year trend then


>>>>>>>>> For your  rank

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Apply to Amity University-Noida B.Tech Admissions 2026

You have chances in following GFTIs which are listed below along with their closing rank in 6th round of josaa counselling 2020 under other state/ all india quota   :-


------------)National Institute of Foundry & Forge Technology, Hatia, Ranchi:- Metallurgy and Materials Engineering (4 Years, Bachelor of Technology):- 13168 sc rank


------------)Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology:- Food Technology:-13307 sc rank



------------)Institute of Technology, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Bilaspur, (C.G.) :- Industrial and Production Engineering:- 13380 sc rank


------------)National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, Sonepat, Haryana :- Food Technology and Management:-13529 sc rank


And a few more


You can check the closing ranks  at official website of josaa by going through the link given below

https://josaa.nic.in/Counseling/seatallotmentresult/currentorcr.aspx

Or

For previous year cut offs of top colleges like NITs, IIITs , you can also refer our page at :-

NITs :- https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/nits-cutoff-for-top-btech-branches

IIITs:- https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff-for-top-iiits

Above prediction has been made  considering  past year cut off data but  closing rank for colleges varies every year depending upon many factors like jee main question paper difficulty, number of students writing the exam etc so

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


To help you  further,

To give an idea of jee main 2022 qualifying cut off ,

Minimum percentile in jee main 2021 to qualify it to be eligible for jee advanced is given below :-

--------) general :-87.8992241 percentile

--------) EWS:- 66.2214845 percentile

--------) OBC-NCL :- 68.0234447 percentile

--------) SC :- 46.8825338 percentile

--------) ST:- 34.6728999 percentile

--------) PWD :- 0.0096375 percentile

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

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


Thankyou

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