Hi student,

97.6 percentile means that 97.6 percent of the total students who appeared for jee mains Examination are behind you. So your approximate rank will be around 20,987. However this is not your final rank and it will change based on jee mains April examination, that is it can change slightly because of different number of students appearing in January and April examination. You can use following rank predictor also by using the below link:

Https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-rank-predictor

You can also use our college predictor using the following link:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.careers360.com/college-predictor&ved=2ahUKEwijx6GXj8DgAhVSTn0KHUOQBisQFjAAegQIBxAD&usg=AOvVaw2AOFtKT1Kl7aX4aICHr3xY

Hope it helps.

Good luck.