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What does it means " Top 20 percentile cut-off will be considered" when i appear for jee after giving improvement exam?


Shobhit Gupta 6th Mar, 2019
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Shivam Gautam 6th Mar, 2019
Hello Dear

The sentences top 20 percentile means that the person who had scored more number of percentile has been taken as the reference and below that candidate's who has scored less than that among all those candidates 20 candidate's will get shortlisted / selected , that's the actual meaning of the top 20 percentile.

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Priyatam Kumar 6th Mar, 2019
Hello Sobhit!
To  understand about top 20 percentile board cutoff for Jee main, look at these points :

For calculating top 20 percentile for different class 12thboards, the marks scored in five subjects - (1) Physics, (2) Chemistry, (3) Mathematics, (4) A language and (5) Any subject other than the above four, is taken into account.

In case a candidate has taken more than 1 languages as the 4thsubject in class 12th, then the language with higher marks will be considered.

If candidates have taken more than one subject (any subject other than the above four) as the 5thsubject in class 12th, then also the subject with higher marks will be taken into account.

If the marks in a subject are not allotted out of 100, then the total marks for a subject will be scaled (up or down) to 100 so that the total aggregate marks is out of 500.

In case a candidate passes class XII in 2017, but appears for improvement in one or a few subjects in the year 2018, then the top 20 percentile cutoff for 2017 will be considered. However, if a candidate appears for improvement in all the subjects in 2018, then in this case, best of the two performances (2017 or 2018) will be considered. Thus, candidates appearing for improvement in the next year are advised to take all the 5 papers, as their aggregate marks for the year (in which they appear for improvement) will only be considered only if they appear in the improvement in all 5 subjects.

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16th May, 2019
Incase if I have 6 subjects(optional) one, will I need to give improvement in that subject too?
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