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Hello aspirant
97.57 is pretty good score ,why you want to take drop. You have not mentioned clearly what you want to do or reason for drop . Without knowing reason we won't be able to answer you correctly. However with 97.57 percentile you may have chances of getting admission to top IITs and NITs.
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Hello aspirant,
To drop an year is your own decision as you have not scored that much to get an NITs, IIITs or GFTIs. According to cutoff marks, chances seems to be less to get these Colleges but there are other best Engineering colleges where you can apply to. Even you can go for state counselling like punjab, haryana, bihar, MP etc.
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