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sheemaashraf123 11th Nov, 2021

It depends upon the JEE Main and JEE Advance cut offs, If You manage to qualify the exam by achieving the cut off, You can apply for JOSAA Counselling. It should be noted the cut off for EWS/SC/ST/FEMALES/OBC category is lower than the general category
However It is usually advised to fill the choices as per the preference of colleges and departments, for example CSE in NIT Trichy is your priority followed by CSE in NIT Warangal, you can fill CSE at NIT Trichy at serial number 1 and CSE at NIT Warangal at serial number 2 and so on and so forth. However to get any NIT, you must have qualified JEE Mains and to get any IIT, you must have qualifies JEE Advanced

But the previous cut offs of colleges should be taken in consideration, it is better to research over the cut off of colleges then make a preference list of colleges and fill accordingly

For the college preferences and the courses provided by these colleges and to know which colleges participate in the JOSAA counselling, please go to the below mentioned link: https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/josaa-participating-institutes/amp

For college prediction as per your marks and rank, please go through the below mentioned link:

Rest for information on any particular college, you can dig their official site for better information

Soumili Majumdar 28th Sep, 2020
Hello there,
You haven't mentioned your home state. Analysing the previous year data, you have fair chances of getting into IIITs and NITs. You can get a chance in some lower NITs and IIITs. It depends on which branch you are interested in.

You can check the cut-off ranks of all the NITs from the link given below:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/engineering.careers360.com/articles/nits-cutoff-for-top-btech-branches/amp

You can check the cut-off rank of all the IIITs from the link given below:
https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff-for-top-iiits

Also note that the cut-off rank changes every year depending on the difficulty of the paper, and the number of candidates appearing for it.

You can use our college predictor to predict the best college for you:
https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer

Hope this answer helps you.
Good luck!!
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