Hi

Making  prediction is difficult as  cutoff  depends upon various factors like :-

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

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

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

-----------) the branch you want,

-----------) 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 2020 for general category  :-

• National Institute of Technology Sikkim, Civil Engineering :- 47412

• National Institute of Technology, Mizoram, Civil Engineering:- 49757

• National Institute of Technology Agartala, Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering :- 50,010

You can check the same at

https://josaa.nic.in/Result/Result/currentorcr.aspx

From above, it is clear that you need at least a rank of around 45,000 - 50,000 to get into an NIT

For attempting jee advanced, you should try to get at least around 90 percentile in jee main

For example,

jee main 2021 minimum cut off percentile to be eligible for jee advanced  was :-

--------) 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

For IITs,

You need at least around 14k rank in jee advanced,

For example,

Closing rank in JEE advanced for general category in some of the lower IITs is  provided below:-

--------------) Indian Institute of Technology Jammu:-     Civil Engineering (4 Years, Bachelor of Technology :- 14300

------------) Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur    Bio Engineering (4 Years, Bachelor of Technology)     :- 14620

No, you cannot attempt JEE advanced without qualifying JEE main  as it is mandatory to qualify JEE main to be eligible for JEE advanced

For your reference

JEE  advanced eligibility criteria is given below :-

---------------------) you need to pass your class 12th with at least 75% marks in aggregate in class 12 if belong to general or obc category or at least 65% marks if belongs to SC/ST or must be in the top 20 percentile in class 12 examination. For this year i. e 2021 this percentage requirement in class 12th was lifted off.

5 Subjects to be considered for calculating aggregate percentage are :-

• Physics

• Chemistry

• Mathematics

• A language

• Any subject other than listed above

----------------------) You can give JEE advanced examination for the maximum of consecutive 2 years starting from the year of appearing for your 12th examination i. e to be eligible for JEE advanced 2022 your 12th board examination appearing year should be either 2022 or 2021

-----------------------) There is upper age limit, according to which to be eligible for jee advanced 2022, you should be born on or after 1st October 1997. There is 5 years of age relaxation for SC, ST and PwD so candidates of SC/ST /PWD needs to be  born on or after October 1, 1992.

-----------------------) you must qualify JEE main  2022 to be eligible for jee advanced 2022.

You can get the detailed below information about jee advanced eligibility criteria by visiting our page the link for the same is provided below

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-advanced-eligibility-criteria

Thank you