I have scored good percentile and good rank in JEE MAIN 2019. But I didn't get seat in any NIT/IIIT. The reason is my category (general).

Hello aspirant,

It would be more helpful to provide you with appropriate details if you have mentioned details more precisely as your score or percentile. However if your ultimate goal is IIT and you missed it now with just narrow score and you are very much confident about yourself that you can crack it for sure next time then go for long term else if you got seat in top colleges in the stream you are aiming for then you can even excel your skills there.. because the classes that are being taught in IITs can be even available for the students who are not IITians through websites provided by the central government. So instead of wasting an year when you are not confident you can go for this and later you can crack gate exam and enter into IITs.

All the very best for your bright future!!

Hello Aspirant,
You can do nothing in your case if you didn't get admission.
Now you have options that if you have enough dedication and passion that you can get IIT next year or can secure good rank next year then you can drop one year. Prepare for exam and come back with more good rank.
But if you have doubt about next year exam, then you should choose for another college not private. Many others government colleges are present which are also good as NITs or IITs.
If i was there in place of you, then I will choose second option. I prefer any other government college instead of taking risk by dropping one year.
Good luck

Hii

This is not like  that.  If you have scored really very well than you would have got some. Many of the general category student got some of seat according to their rank. In fact there is 50.5% unreserved seats, and even this year there was increase in seat.

Now, coming to second point, it is ovious that talent matters. But apart from it you need exposure and platform which you can get from good college like IITs. Study part can be done from anyway but application and exposure you can learn from there. You will feel the difference when you will meet or be in contact of any IIT student and a private college student.

Hope you understood