Hello,

Admission in to IITs is based on merit in JEE Advanced. Candidates qualifying JEE Main will be eligible to get admission NITs/IIITs/GFTIs. In 2020 the JEE Main qualifying percentile was as follows

• General: 90.3765335
• OBC-NCL: 72.8887969
• SC:50.1760245
• ST: 39.0696101
• EWS:70.2435518
• PWD: 0.0618524

But in 2021 the qualifying percentile may slightly increase or decrease depending on number of candidates qualified, difficulty of exam and number of seats available etc.

Here is the qualifying marks for JEE Advanced in 2020. The score is minimum overall aggregate marks and individual subject marks respectively

• General: 69, 6
• EWS/OBC-NCL: 65, 5
• SC/ST/All categories PWD: 34, 3
• Preparatory course: 10, no minimum individual subject score

The qualifying cut off may change depending on number of candidates qualified, difficulty of exam and number of seats available etc. You need to score above cut off marks to have decent chances of getting seat in an IIT. Based on previous year cut off trends your JEE Advanced rank must be within 5000 to have good chances of getting seat in IIT.

To check the previous years cut off you may click the link below

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-advanced-cutoff-for-iits

We have JEE Main knockout to help you with your JEE Main preparation you can check the details using the link below

https://learn.careers360.com/knockout-jee-main-april/

Hello dear student

You should qualified the jee main examination for get chance in jee advance examination the cutoff of jee main depends on many factors for it's changed every year.

*It is not fixed it's changed every year

The tentative qualifying marks for GEN category (common rank list)

• students is 89.75 for GEN
• (EWS category) is 78.21,
• for OBC-NCL is 74.31
• for SC is 54, 44 for ST & 0.11371730.

For more information about jee main advance please visit the link.

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

Hope that's helpful

Best of luck