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should I prefer nit or iiit with low jee main rank like 54000 with obc reservation


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shaik313umar 17th May, 2021
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ADITYA KUMAR Student Expert 26th Jun, 2021

Hi

54000 rank is around 95 percentile as per our rank predictor at

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

And 54000 rank is around 14500- 15000 obc rank

With this you have,

Chances in some NITs, IIITs which are are listed below along with their closing rank in the 6th round of josaa counselling 2020 for obc category  :-

  • Nit nagaland ,Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering (4 Years, Bachelor of Technology) :-  15340 obc rank

  • National Institute of Technology Agartala, Production Engineering (4 Years, Bachelor of Technology :- 15659  obc rank

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  • Indian Institute of Information Technology(IIIT) Dharwad, Electronics and Communication Engineering ( 4 Years, Bachelor of Technology):- 15280 obc rank

  • Indian Institute of Information Technology Bhagalpur, Mechatronics Engineering:- 16682  obc rank


You can verify the above at

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

You can prefer IIIT over NITs as in NITs you have chances in very low branches like production engineering whereas in IIITs you have chances in decent branches like electronics and communication.

Above prediction of 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

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

Thank you


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