In jossa counselling should I keep my 1St preference for the 1St round or the branch which I am sure I will get. please explain the float option

JEE Main 2020 Counselling-

Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) 2020 notified the counselling schedule, as per the notification released, the counselling will be done in 6 rounds.

JoSAA Seat Allotment Round 4 result has been released on October 30, 2020.

JoSAA 2020 Cutoff for Round 1 – 4 is available on the official portal, students can check institute-wise opening and closing ranks.

There are three counselling processes for 15% JEE Main All India Seats:

JoSAA Counselling is done for seat allotment of all IITs, IIITs, NITs and Other Government Funded Technical Institutes.

CSAB NEUT manages counselling for seats of AICTE approved institutes in India which are not covered under CSAB for the North Eastern States & Union Territories (NEUT).

CSAB SFTI takes care of counselling for Self-Funded Technical Institutes.

JEE Main Eligibility for Admission to NITs, IITs and CFTIs-

Admission to B.Tech / B. Arch / B.E. / B. Planning courses in these institutes will be based on All India Rank with the requirement that the candidate should have attained at least 75% in 12th examination or should have been in the top 20 percentile in 12th.

For SC / ST candidates the requirement is 65% in 12th.

In JOSAA you will get three options-

Float,slide,freeze

Float option - If you got a seat in Josaa ,and you are not satisfied with your current seat then you can go for float option. According to your rank ,your choice can upgrade in the upcoming rounds . Else you can continue with your current seat.

Float option is simple to understand

Let you jee rank is X and you got a seat in 1st round of counseling . Now after first round if someone whose rank is above X withdraws his/her seat from counseling and you have that option in your priority list so there is a possibility that you can get that seat. Generally if we are not satisfied with our current seat then we use float option to get better seat.

There are total 7 rounds of JoSAA this year.

So, You can use it for a total of 6 times but you haven't have to go to reporting center after each round. In first round if you opt for float until you go to RC and choose to freeze it, it will float in further rounds.

i.e., Case-I : If you opt for float in round-1 and do not go to RC after that then you would be in float in all 6 rounds.

Case-II : If you opt for float in round-1 and go to reporting centre in round-3(say) then you will float in round-1 and round-2 and freeze from round-3 onwards.

Slide option -Same as above ,but here college remains the same as you got in that round, only branch upgrades according to your filled choices.

Freeeze option - It means you are satisfied with your current seat, and you are accepting it.