JEE Main 2026: Preparation Tips & Study Plan
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Hi
Your profile suggest that your home state is west Bengal
I am assuming you from general category
With 86.54 percentile
Your rank will be around 137696 - 154790 as per our rank predictor at
JEE Main Rank Predictor - Know your expected IIT JEE Main 2021 Rank by ...
I am sorry to tell you but with this rank you have low chances in any NIT, even in lower ones.
For example,
Cosing rank for some of the nits for which closing rank goes low are listed below along with their closing rank in the 6th round of josaa counselling 2020 under other state for general category :-
National Institute of Technology Sikkim, Civil Engineering :- 47412
National Institute of Technology, Mizoram, Civil Engineering:- 49757
National Institute of Technology Agartala, Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering :- 50,010
You can check the same at
https://josaa.nic.in/Result/Result/currentorcr.aspx
From above, it is clear that you need at least a rank of around 45,000 - 50,000 to get into even lower NITs. And to get a rank in this range, you need at atleast around 95.5 - 96 percentile .
Some of the engineering colleges in which you hold a chance are listed below along with their previous year cut off link :-
----------)Madhav Institute of Technology and Science, Gwalior :-:- https://dqxeclau.top/colleges/madhav-institute-of-technology-and-science-gwalior/cut-off
----------)Dr CV Raman University, Bilaspur:- https://dqxeclau.top/university/dr-cv-raman-university-bilaspur/cut-off
---------) Jabalpur Engineering College, Jabalpur:- https://dqxeclau.top/colleges/jabalpur-engineering-college-jabalpur/cut-off
To have a personalised report on your chances of getting a college you can go through our college predictor, it will give you complete list of colleges which you can get on the basis of the category you belong to, your home state, your gender etc, the link for jee main college predictor is provided below
https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer
To improve your score in remaining attempts of your JEE main you should focus on your preparation go through previous year question papers ,mock test papers and to help you in your preparation we have jee main knockout out for you, for which link is provided below
https://learn.careers360.com/knockout-jee-main
To help you further,
To give you an idea of qualifying cut off, JEE mains 2020 qualifying CUT OFF percentile to be eligible for jee advanced is given below for different category
>>>> General :- 90.3765335
>>>> GEN-EWS :- 70.2435518
>>>> OBC-NCL :- 72.8887969
>>>> SC :- 50.1760245
>>>> ST :- 39.0696101
>>>> PwD :- 0.0618524
You can check the same at our page the link is provided below
https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff
ThankyouHi
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