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I scored 78.58 percentile in jee mains 2021. My home state is pondicherry. I belong to obc ncl category. Will I get a seat in nit pondy?


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Ni 7th Aug, 2021
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ADITYA KUMAR Student Expert 7th Aug, 2021

Hi

With 78.58 percentile


Your obc rank will be around 70,000- 80,000.

It is quite difficult to make prediction but yes as per past year trend , you hold some  chance to get a seat in NIT Puducherry under home state

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For example,

In 6th round of josaa counselling 2020,  76199 obc rank for obc category for gender neutral  for home state was the closing rank for nit Puducherry and it  was for civil engineering .

You can check the same at

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

This prediction is on the past year data basis but  cut closing rank for colleges changes every year depending upon factors like number of candidates that write jee main examination, difficulty level of the question paper for different shifts of jee main 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


Thankyou

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