Hi

It's quite difficult to make prediction as marks vs percentile keeps changing every year depending upon various factors like

• number of students that appeared in the exam,

• kind of marks obtained by them ,

• toughness level of the examination for different shifts of the exam etc.

but yes , for 98 percentile you must target around at least around 160 marks

For example,

With 160 marks,

• your percentile will be around 98.0 - 99.06   percentile as per our predictor at

With this percentile you have chances in NITs like NIT Allahabad, NIT Durgapur, NIT bhopal, NIT Patna etc

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  score well in  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 link  is provided below

https://learn.careers360.com/knockout-jee-main

To help you further,

JEE mains 2021 expected qualifying  CUT OFF percentile to be eligible for jee advanced  is given below for different categories on the basis of past year trends :

.                  .  JEE      MAIN CUT   OFF    PERCENTILE

Category jeemain2020 jeemain2021 expected off

General :-     90.3765335                 90-95

GEN-EWS :-  70.2435518                  70 -75

OBC-NCL :-  72.8887969                   70 -75

SC     :-           50.1760245                  50 -55

ST :-                39.0696101                  40 - 45

PwD :-            0.0618524                      1- 2

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

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

Thankyou