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Hi
You have not mentioned the category you belong to so assuming that you belong to general category
Your profile suggests that your homestate is Andhrapradesh so you will be eligible for other state quota in NIT Goa
With 78.92 percentile
your rank will be around 215648 - 242420 as per our rank predictor at
JEE Main Rank Predictor - Know your expected IIT JEE Main 2021 Rank by ...
I am extremely sorry to tell you but with above predicted rank you have a low chance in NIT Goa
For example,
In 6th round of josaa counselling 2020, closing rank for gender-neutral for general category was 35494 rank under other state in NIT Goa and it was for civil engineering
You can check the same at
https://josaa.nic.in/Result/Result/currentorcr.aspx
Above prediction is on the basis of past year data but cut off/closing rank for colleges keeps changing every year depending upon many factors like number of students that appeared in the examination, difficulty level of the JEE main question paper for different shifts etc so
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
You need to get at least around 97 percentile to get a seat in NIT GOA . To improve your score in remaining sessions of 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 is provided below
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Thankyou
hello aspirant,
78.92 percentile would fetch you a rank around 215648-242420.As of now its tough to say because the analysis and also cutoffs change every year due to many factors like total students appearing for exam,difficulty level of paper etc,As you did not mention your category considering you from gen category and according to your profile you from andhra pradesh for which other state quota will be considered for counselling to nit goa,based on your rank you have tough to no chances to fetch seat in nits.The last year cutoff for nit goa for
civil engineering -35494
mechanical engineering-26295
.you need better percentile of 98+ to fetch seat in top nits,iiits..you can try in private engineering colleges using your jee percentile.workhard for the upcoming jeemain sessions..you can get closing rank for josaa official website: https://josaa.nic.in/Result/Result/currentorcr.aspx
.for more information to get a personalised report on what all chances you have for your rank refer to: https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer
hope this helps,
thankyou.
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