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What is the minimum percentile in JEE Mains to qualify for JEE Advanced 2021 (General category)? I got 85.6 in last attempt; Still I have 2 more attempts. What percentile should I aim for? Also, Give some tips for Self preparation. Pls Help…


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Anonymous 18th May, 2021
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Sowmya Konkala 28th Jun, 2021

hello aspirant,

Qualifying Cut off or minimum percentile to write jeemain changes every year due to many factors like:total students appearing for exam,difficulty level of exam,reservations,total seats available for admission,previous year cutoff trends etc

but based on previous year data and trends the minimum ualifying percentile for gen student to write jee advanced is:90-95

get the cutoffs at:

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

85.8 percentile would fetch you a rank around 147312-165600.As of now its tough to say because the analysis and also cutoffs change every year due to many factors like total students appearing for exam,difficulty level of paper etc  considering you from gen category,with your percentile ,you have tough chances to fetch seat for fetching in nits,iiits.you need better percentile of 98+  to fetch seat in top nits,iiits..you can try in private engineering colleges using your jee percentile. workhard for the upcoming jeemain sessions..you can get closing rank for josaa official website: https://josaa.nic.in/Result/Result/currentorcr.aspx  ..for top private engineering colleges you can try  for the below colleges through jeemains:

thapar university

BIT mesra

sastra university

srm university

amritha vishwa vidyapeetham

for more information to get a personalised report on what all chances you have for your rank refer to: https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor? icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer

refer to: https://engineering.careers360.com/colleges/ranking/top-engineering-colleges-in-India-accepting-jee-main-score

for tips and tricks refer to: https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/how-prepare-for-jee-main

hope this helps,

thankyou.

Sohamsengupta8 27th Jun, 2021

Hello Student

IIT Kharagpur already has been published JEE main advanced examination eligibility criteria. As per the eligibility criteria you must should pass JEE main examination to be eligible for this. And one thing you also should consider that you should be between top 2,50,000 students. There is also reservations in this. Basically being a General your rank should be between 96187, to be eligible. Which means you should have minimum 70 percentile to be eligible. How about this percentile can be changed and very year to year.

Click on the link below to know more about more eligibility criteria

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-advanced-eligibility-criteria

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