Hi

Actually how much percentile you want to get  in jee main april session depends upon your goal.

For example,

If your goal is to get JEE main qualifying cut off and be eligible for JEE advanced then you should try to get at least around 75 percentile.

For reference,

JEE mains 2021 expected qualifying  CUT OFF percentile 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

In case, if you want to get a seat in NIT then you should try to get at least OBC rank of around 15,000 i. e around at least 95 percentile  to get any nit under other state quota.

For instance,

In 6th round of josaa counselling 2020 under other state quota in NIT Nagaland closing rank for OBC category was 15340 obc rank and it was for Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering

You can check the same and closing cutoff rank for other branches as well at

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

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

Thank you

Dear student,

To get seat in top NITs or IIITs you should get percentile above 98 for your category. For this you should prepare well and get good JEE Mains score in the upcoming exam.

You can boost your rank by using rank booster, use below link to know more details.

https://learn.careers360.com/jee-main-rank-booster/?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer

You can predict your JEE Mains rank using JEE Mains Rank Predictor. It prediction is based on previous year's data.

Rank Predictor-

https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-rank-predictor

You can go through JEE Mains cutoffs using below links. These cut-offs are based on previous year's cut-off trends. So, you have have a look of cut-offs of JEE Mains of various colleges using below links.

Cutoff-

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

Official cutoffs for NITs, IIITs, IITs, CFTIs-

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

You can predict which colleges you can get for your JEE Mains rank using below link. This analysis is based on previous year's opening and closing ranks of various colleges.

College Predictor-

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

Hope this information helped you.

Good Luck!!