Hello aspirant,

You might not be eligible for some engineering entrance exams or university admissions if your CBSE board exam percentage is less than 75%. However, you can increase your chances by taking improvement tests, retaking the boards through the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), or looking into colleges with less stringent requirements.

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Hello, If your overall CBSE board percentage is below 75% (and you are not in the top 20 percentile of your board), the main consequence is that you become ineligible for admission to top central engineering colleges (IITs, NITs, IIITs, and GFTIs). This is a strict eligibility rule for the JEE Main and JEE Advanced counselling process, regardless of your rank in those exams.

However, this 75% criterion is not a universal rule for all admissions. You can still get admission into many other government and private universities. For exams like CUET, the eligibility is often just passing the 12th standard. Many private engineering colleges and state-level universities have their own eligibility, which is often lower (like 50% or 60%).

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