Dear aspirant,

As far as the minimum marks is concerned, to be honest it can't be predicted and that too category wise because every year the quality of candidates is different and also number of sc category candidates will be different so it's very difficult to predict the score. In addition difficulty level of the paper is also considered.

If i were to judge the percentile then as per my prediction then if you score atleast 85-90 percentile then you would get nits like Jamshedpur, durgapur, Silchar, allahabad, rourkela, Calicut, Trichy, warangal, surathkal. For non core branches it would be more.

To get more information about the colleges you can check out the link given below-

https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?utm_source=qna&utm_medium=jee_cp

Hi

This difficult to predict the marks/percentile / rank you require in JEE mains to get into NITs etc as closing rank keeps changing every year  depending upon various factors like

----------) number of students/ candidates  that appeared in the  jee main exam,

-----------) number of available seats,

-----------) jee main examination difficulty level.

-----------) branch preference by different candidates

-----------) the category you belong etc.

But yes,

When we go through previous year trend then ,

Under other state quota , closing 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 2021 for sc category  :-

------------------) National Institute of Technology, Andhra Pradesh :- Metallurgical and Materials Engineering :- 9135 sc rank

------------------) NIT, Raipur :- Bio Medical Engineering :- 9446 sc rank

------------------) National Institute of Technology Agartala :- Physics (5 Years, Bachelor of Science and Master of Science (Dual Degree)):- 10530 sc rank

You can check the same at its official website for which link is given below:-

JOSAA 2021 cut off :- https://josaa.nic.in/Counseling/seatallotmentresult/currentorcr.aspx

So, to get a seat in NITs, you need at least around 9k -10k sc rank, and for that you need at least around 85 percentile i. e around 75 -80 marks roughly in terms of marks as per past year trends

For marks vs rank vs percentile, checkout our page at:- https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-marks-vs-percentile

You can also use our jee main rank predictor for which link is given below:-

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 help you  further,

To give an idea of jee main 2022 qualifying cut off ,

Minimum percentile in jee main 2021 to qualify it is given below :-

--------) general :-87.8992241 percentile

--------) EWS:- 66.2214845 percentile

--------) OBC-NCL :- 68.0234447 percentile

--------) SC :- 46.8825338 percentile

--------) ST:- 34.6728999 percentile

--------) PWD :- 0.0096375 percentile

You can check the same at our page the link is provided below

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

To enhance your performance in jee main, you can go for jee main rank booster course for which link is given below:-

https://learn.careers360.com/jee-main-rank-booster/

Thankyou