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I have score 88 percentile in JEE MAINS 2021, Can I get Computer Science branch in top NIT's


Aryan 12th Jul, 2021
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ADITYA KUMAR Student Expert 12th Jul, 2021

Hi

I am assuming that you belong to general category

With 88 percentile

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

And when it comes to computer science then,

Even to get into lower NITs, for cse your rank should have been at least around  28k - 29k  i. e at  least 97.5 percentile

For example,

In 6th round of josaa counselling 2020, under other state quota  29040 rank  was closing rank for gender neutral for general category for computer science in NIT Mizoram which is one of the lower NITs

You can check the same at

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

You may not even qualify JEE main examination

For example,

In 2020, qualifying cutoff for general category was 90.3765335 percentile

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

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

On the basis of past year trends,

Some of the engineering colleges in which you hold a good chance for computer science engineering are listed below along with the link for their previous year cutoff :-




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 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

Thank you

Virat Srivastava 12th Jul, 2021

Dear candidate, sorry to say but at 88 percentile you can’t get NIT if you are from General category. You should check for some State Engineering Colleges or private colleges. You can predict your college using this link:

You can check NITs cut off here:

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

Hope, it helps!

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