Dear Rohan,

See, the percentile you have scored can get you some good NITs too with your desired branches but at the end if you are not satisfied then it does not matter and you will not be happy with whatever you will get.

By the language of your question I am sensing that you are in great desire for IITs so I will firstly say that whatever time you have give you one last shot, put all the efforts without thinking of dropping and all. Two more attempts of JEE Main is knowing the door, try to get 99 percentile+ to be in a very secured position for NITs and then you will get the confidence for JEE Advanced exam too.

Now let us consider the other side, see if you think there will be no external pressure of family, you will be mentally fine then yes you should drop one year for the best to happen. That one year can not only give you best but also in later stage of life you will not be regretful that you had chance but you did not give attention to it.

I hope this answer helps you.

As i said earlier, I will suggest you give your best for the remaining attempts of JEE Main which will be held soon in this month(July). To go through the supplement designed by our experts to boost your JEE Main preparation. Below I am adding the link of it too.

https://learn.careers360.com/engineering/jee-main-preparation-material/

To know which colleges you can get on your rank along with the ones i have mentioned above, you can check our college predictor tool. Below I am attaching the link of it.

All the very best!!

Hello Aspirant,

See the percentile you have mentioned is decent enough to take you to good NITs for Mechanical engineering and for IITs you need to appear for JEE-Advance and don't lose your hope because you should give a try at least and suppose if you do not get any IIT then also you have option for good NITs. So instead of dropping a year you can enroll for NIT and then you can re-appear for JEE-Advance in 2022 if you have remaining attempts.

Since you have not mentioned your category so considering it as General.

According to the percentile you have mentioned your rank is expected to be in the range of 17391 - 19550 , you can check out marks Vs ranks Vs Percentile from the link given below :-

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-marks-vs-percentile

Or

You can also use JEE-Main Rank Predictor to predict your rank :-

So on such rank and category you have good chances to get the enlisted NITs for Mechanical branch :-

• Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar
• Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal
• National Institute of Technology Durgapur

You can check out previous year's cut-offs from the official website of JOSAA as 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 or CSAB 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.

So you can use JEE-Main College Predictor to predict your chances of admission in different engineering colleges of India on the basis of your JEE-Main 2021 result :-

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

You can also check out the JEE-Main 2021 qualifying cut-off (expected) for JEE-Advance 2021 from the link given below :-

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

I hope this information helps you.

Good Luck!!