Hi Prajwal,

Since you are a PCMC student and wish to pursue engineering, you will have to undergo some entrance tests depending upon where you want admission:

• If you want in top national institutes like IIT and NIT, you will have to give an entrance exam called JEE Mains paper-1. You need to get  a very high score which should be 550+.
• If you want admission in your state engineering colleges, you will have to answer CET or Common Entrance Test conducted after 12th.
• If you want in colleges like Manipal Institute of Technology or BITS or VIT, you will have to answer the entrance test conducted by them. Note that, if you top in 12th boards, you will be given admission in BITS without any entrance exams.