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my jee main percentile is 98.5 considering general category or ews (certificate applied depends on approval). what are best options to choose keeping in mind I m inclined towards ece (highest priority),electrical or cse i am less interested in private college so which nits and branch would be best


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Priyansh 26th Aug, 2021
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ADITYA KUMAR Student Expert 26th Aug, 2021

Hi

I am considering a general category student to answer your question.

As per our rank predictor at

With  98.5 percentile,

  • Your  rank will be around 15345 - 17250


With your rank , you have chances in following  which are listed below along with their closing rank in 6th round of josaa counselling 2020 under other state -

B.Tech/B.Arch Admissions OPEN

Apply to Amity University-Noida B.Tech Admissions 2026

---------) National Institute of Technology Bhopal, Electrical Engineering:-18017

---------) National Institute of Technology Agartala, computer science :-18351

-------)National Institute of Technology Patna, ECE :- 20301

-------)National Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand, ECE :- 20028


And a few more


You can check the closing ranks  at official website of josaa by going through the link given below

https://josaa.nic.in/Result/Result/currentorcr.aspx

Or

For previous year cut offs of top colleges like NITs, IIITs , you can also refer our page at :-

NITs :- https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/nits-cutoff-for-top-btech-branches

IIITs:- https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff-for-top-iiits

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 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 help you further,

To give you an idea of qualifying cut off, JEE mains 2020  qualifying  CUT OFF percentile to be eligible for jee advanced is given below for different category

>>>> General :-     90.3765335

>>>> GEN-EWS :-  70.2435518

>>>> OBC-NCL :-  72.8887969

>>>> SC     :-           50.1760245

>>>> ST :-                39.0696101

>>>> PwD :-            0.0618524

You can check the same at our page the link is provided below

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

Thankyou



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