How much do a student in general category want in jee mains to get admission in IIT Delhi for mechanical engineering?

Hello Aspirant,

See IITs takes admission for their B.Tech course on the basis of score of JEE-Advance not JEE-Mains but yes one need to qualify JEE-Mains to sit for JEE-Advance and the expected qualifying cut-offs for JEE-Main 2021 are described below :-

• Common Rank List (CRL) - 90- 95 Percentile
• GEN-EWS - 70- 75 Percentile
• Other Backward Classes (OBC-NCL) - 70- 75 Percentile
• Scheduled Caste (SC) - 50- 55 Percentile
• Scheduled Tribe (ST) - 40- 45 Percentile
• PwD - 1-2 Percentile

Note that in above table it is not the actual cut-off for JEE-Main 2021 but expected on the basis of previous year's analysis. You can check out previous year's cut-off trends from the link given below :-

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

Now coming to the rank needed to get into IIT Delhi with Mechanical Engineering(ME) branch, so as we go through the latest cut-off of 2020 then it shows that the closing rank for Open(General) category was 1464 for ME branch in IIT Delhi. See it is quite difficult to tell you about exact marks to score because for JEE-Advance no maximum marks are fixed but yes with regards to JEE-Advance 2021 if you secure your AIR in JEE-Advance under top 1450 then there are good chances for you to get ME branch in IIT Delhi.

You can check out the latest cut-offs from the link given below :-

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

Note that the above prediction is made on the basis of latest cut-offs available on official website of JOSAA and the cut-offs are bound to change every year depending upon various factors such as the number of candidates appearing in an examination, the number of candidates qualifying an examination, difficulty level of the paper, and so on.

As you are preparing for JEE-Main or JEE-Advance 2021 the I would recommend you to check the resources made by our experts to help aspirants like you in the best and smart preparation of JEE-Main or JEE-Advance 2021 :-

https://learn.careers360.com/jee-main-coaching/?utm_source=%20QnA

To have a list of all those colleges which you can get based upon your JEE-Main score, category, and state you can use JEE-Main College Predictor :-

https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer

I hope this information helps you.

Good Luck!!