Hey aspirant,

As you haven't mentioned about which exam you are talking about so I'm not able to give you an accurate information. But according to my information in JOSAA if you are from a reserved category i.e, Gen-ews,OBC, SC, ST then your category rank will be used but you'll have to provide your gen-ews category certificate as you need it for verification. But if you are from general category then you CRl Rank is used.

And I guess same goes for NEET too.

To have a list of colleges which you may get into based on your rank, category you can refer to any one of the links mentioned below-

For neet- https://medicine.careers360.com/neet-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer

For jee mains-

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

Hope it helps.

Good luck.