Dear Ashwin,

First of all congratulations for scoring this much percentile. It shows your hard-work and dedication.

Now coming to your question, so if we observe last year(2020) Percentile vs Rank for EWS category then, 98.5 percentile was fetching an EWS rank around 2400, and with 99 percentile, it was around 1600.

On the basis of above analysis we can come to conclusion that with 98.96-8221 percentile your EWS rank will be somewhere between 1600-2400 because we can't give you a very sharp and narrow figure as cutoff depends on various factors like Number of students appearing in the exam, total number of seats, difficulty level of paper and so on.

To predict your common rank we have to tool called Rank predictor, you can access it by clicking on the link below.

And to know which colleges you can get in your rank, then you can easily check it with our college predictor tool.

You can also check the JEE MAIN qualifying cutoff(expected) for JEE-Advance 2021 from the link given below :-

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

If you are preparing for JEE-Main 2021 or 2022 then I would suggest you to check the resources made by our experts to help aspirants like you in the best and smart preparation

of JEE-Main 2021 or 2022 :-

https://learn.careers360.com/jee-main-coaching/?utm_source=%20QnA

I hope this answer helps you.

Al the best!