Yes, youll be eligible to appear for JEE Advanced only if you have cleared JEE Main Respective Category Cutoff of that particular year. However, it is not compulsary, you may not opt to appear in JEE Advanced, if its not your Target exam. For more information about JEE Advanced, Eligibility and related information do follow the link below

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-advanced-eligibility-criteria

Hello Aspirant,

No, it is not necessary to write JEE-Advance after qualifying JEE-Main, it's totally your choice. If you are seekign admission to BTech courses offered by NIT/IIITs/CFTI/GFTIs then you should have your valid JEE-Main score only but if you are seeking admission in any of the IITs then you should have JEE-Advance score so in this case you should write JEE-Advance otherwise not necessary.

To sit for JEE-Advance one should clear the JEE-Main qualifying cut-off which is expected for this year like :-

• Common Rank List (CRL) - 90- 95 Percentile
• GEN-EWS - 70- 75 Percentile
• Other Backward Classes (OBC-NCL) - 70- 75 Percentile
• Scheduled Caste (SC) - 50- 55 Percentile
• Scheduled Tribe (ST) - 40- 45 Percentile
• PwD - 1-2 Percentile

Note that in above table it is not the actual cut-off for JEE-Main 2021 but expected on the basis of previous year's analysis. You can check out previous year's cut-off trends from the link given below :-

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff

To have a list of all those colleges which you can get based upon your marks, category, and state you can use JEE-Main College Predictor:-

https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer

I hope this information helps you.

Good Luck!!