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Hi
With 98 marks
Your percentile will be roughly around 92.19 - 94.65 considering paper of moderate level and considering the worst case if we go with 92.19 percentile then your rank would be roughly around 1000 st rank
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Now,
This is difficult to predict the college as cut off keeps changing every year depending upon various factors
like number of students that appeared in the exam, kind of marks obtained by them ,
toughness level of the jee main examination ,
number of seats available for the different branch
The category you belong to etc.
But yes,
When we go through previous year trend then ,
Some of the best colleges for your rank in which you have chances are listed below along with their closing rank in 6th round of josaa counselling 2020 under other state -
---------)National Institute of Technology, Nagpur:-Mechanical Engineering :- 1016 st rank
----------)National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra:- IT :-1029 st rank
----------)NIT bhopal :- ECE :- 1280 st rank
----------)National Institute of Technology Agartala:- computer science:- 1410 st rank
----------)National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar:-Electrical Engineering :-1447 st rank
----------)National Institute of Technology Patna:- computer science:-1494 st rank
And more
You can check the closing ranks at official website of josaa by going through the link given below
JOSAA 2021:- https://josaa.nic.in/Counseling/seatallotmentresult/currentorcr.aspx
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 help you get the complete list of colleges that you can get on the basis of the category you belong to, your home state, your gender etc, we have JEE main college predictor ,the link for which 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 to be eligible for jee advanced 2022.
Minimum percentile in jee main 2021 to qualify it to be eligible for jee advanced 2021 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
Best Regards
ADITYA KUMAR
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