i got preparatory rank st in 856.. can i get any seat for iit. and what is preparatory rank?

Hello Aspirant,

According to the preparatory rank and category mentioned by you in the question you have good chances of getting the enlisted colleges :-

• IIT Patna
• IIT Mandi
• IIT Jodhpur
• IIT Kharagpur

And some more. Note that the above list is made on the basis of previous year's cut-off 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.

You can check out previous year's JEE-Advanced preparatory cut-off for IITs kindly refer to the link given below :-

https://josaa.nic.in/webinfocms/Handler/FileHandler.ashx?i=File&ii=177&iii=Y

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

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

There are few seats that remain vacant under different categories such as OBC, SC/ST and so on, so those seats are filled by providing admission to the students of that respective category under preparatory course in which those student get prepared for studying in IITs and this course is of one year duration and if one completes this course successfully will be declared as pass and will get direct admission to that branch in which he too the preparatory course. The rank through which admissions are made for above course is called as Preparatory rank.

I hope this information helps you.

Good Luck!!