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Hello candidate,
So, scoring 96 percentile in jee mains will get you any NIT, IIT, and GFTIs. You see, 96 percentile is a good score but it also depends on which year you gave the exam.
Moreover, GEN-EWS category has less cutoff as compare to open category, so you will get any NIT, IIT, and GFTI.
The category wise cutoff for 2021 is as follows:
EWS : MIN_PS_TOT -66.2214845 MAX_PS_TOT- 87.8950071
OBC-NCL : MIN_PS_TOT- 68.0234447 MAX_PS_TOT - 87.8950071
SC: MIN_PS_TOT- 46.8825338 MAX_PS_TOT - 87.8950071
ST: MIN_PS_TOT- 34.6728999 MAX_PS_TOT- 87.8474721
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UR: MIN_PS_TOT- 87.8992241 MAX_PS_TOT - 100.0000000
UR-PH: MIN_PS_TOT- 0.0096375 MAX_PS_TOT - 87.8273359
I hope this helps.
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