Is 80.79 a good score in JEE mains, if so what are colleges that can be applied with this score?
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Hi
I am assuming that you belong to general category
80.79 is not a very good score, you may not even qualify JEE main to be eligible for JEE advanced examination with this percentile.
For example,
In 2020, qualifying cutoff for general category was 90.3765335 and jee main 2021 expected qualifying cut off percentile is 90-95 percentile.
You can check the same at our page the link is provided below
https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff
With 80.79 percentile
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Your rank will be around 196518 - 220915 as per our rank predictor at
With this rank, your chances of getting a seat in NIT, IIITs is extremely low.
But yes,
You have chances in lower government engineering college, some of which are listed below along with the link for their previous year cutoff :-
Institute of People's Science and Technology, Chitrakoot :- https://www.careers360.com/colleges/institute-of-peoples-science-and-technology-chitrakoot/cut-off
Murshidabad College of Engineering and Technology, Murshidabad :- https://www.careers360.com/colleges/murshidabad-college-of-engineering-and-technology-murshidabad/cut-off
Dr APJ Abdul Kalam UIT Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Jhabua :- https://www.careers360.com/colleges/dr-apj-abdul-kalam-uit-rajiv-gandhi-proudyogiki-vishwavidyalaya-jhabua/cut-off
Above prediction of colleges is on the basis of past year data but cut off/closing rank for colleges keeps changing every year depending upon many factors like number of students that appeared in the examination, difficulty level of the JEE main question paper for different shifts 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
To improve your score in remaining sessions of JEE main to get into nits etc, 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
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