JEE Main 2026: Preparation Tips & Study Plan
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Dear Aspirant,
There is nothing as OBC Score/ open score in JEE Mains. There are OBC Ranks, Open Ranks meaning category wise ranks.NTA Prepares a separate rank list category wise. Now coming to score required -
Other than NITs some good colleges that accept JEE Mains score are:
IIITs, Netaji Subhas University of Technology (NSUT),IIEST, IISc ,etc....
Now you can check this analysis of Marks VS Rank VS Percentile :
https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-marks-vs-percentile
A score of 110+ in JEE Mains will help fetch 96+percentile which would help get IIITs, NSUT and other colleges.
As you go up the percentile there are more better options like IIIT Hyderabad IISc Bangalore,these require a very high percentile.(99.8+)
Also you can check all the previous year official cutoffs(closing ranks) for colleges through JEE Mains on JOSAA Website:
https://josaa.nic.in/Result/Result/currentorcr.aspx
List of colleges accepting JEE Mains Score :
https://engineering.careers360.com/colleges/list-of-engineering-colleges-in-india-accepting-jee-main
Hope this helps.
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