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The admission in to IITs is based on merit in JEE Advanced. To appear for JEE Advanced you must qualify in JEE Main. To qualify in JEE Main you need to score the minimum cut off percentile. Now, this minimum cut off percentile changes every year depending on the total number of candidates appeared, difficulty level of examination and total number of seats available etc. In 2020 the qualifying cut off percentile for OBC-NCL category was 72.8887969. In 2021 the qualifying cut off percentile is expected to be in between 70-75. If you come under OBC-CL then you will be considered as general category and the qualifying cut off percentile in 2020 was 90.3765335. In 2021 the qualifying cut off percentile for general category is expected to be in between 90-95. If you belong to OBC-NCL category then you have decent chances of qualifying in JEE Main and appear for JEE Advanced. If you belong to OBC-CL then you do not have chances of qualifying in JEE Main, you need to appear for upcoming sessions. To get admission in to IITs you need to score  minimum  40-45% of total score or more. Cut off changes every year depending on the total number of candidates appeared, difficulty level of examination and total number of seats available etc.

To know the colleges in which you have chances of getting seat based on JEE Main score you can use our JEE Main college predictor tool

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

Use the link below to check the cut off for JEE Advanced

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-advanced-cutoff/amp

Hi

Actually admission in IITs is  on the basis of your rank in JEE advanced examination and not on the basis of JEE main dear but yes you need to qualify JEE main first in order to be eligible for JEE advanced

Now

It's quite difficult to predict JEE mains qualifying cutoff to be eligible for JEE advanced examination as it keeps changing every year depending upon various factors like :-

*number of students that appeared in the  jee main exam,

*kind of marks obtained by them ,

*toughness level of the jee main examination for different shift etc.

But yes,

When we go through previous year trend then yes you  hold a good chance to qualify JEE main in order to be eligible for JEE advanced

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

From above it is clear that, last year qualifying cut off for obc category was 72.8887969 and expected jee main 2021 cut off for obc is 70-75  percentile . So with 80 percentile, you hold good chance to qualify JEE main 2021 to be eligible for JEE advanced examination

And after appearing in JEE advanced if you manage to qualify it then you can get admission on the basis of your rank in jee advanced

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

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