In order to get an addmission in NIT , is it necessary to qualify both JEE mains and advanced? And what is the minimum marks or percentile which a person needs to acquire in order to be able to get addmissions in of the best NIT's?
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Hello Aspirant,
See if you want to get admission in any of the NITs for B.Tech course then JEE-Main is mandatory and to qualify for JEE Mains, there is no minimum aggregate percentage criteria but yes if you want to take admission into NITs, IIITs or CFTIs then you should score a minimum aggregate of 75% in your class 12th if you belongs to General/Unreserved category and 65% if you belongs to any of the reserved category. Now if you want to get best NITs like NIT Trichy, NIT Allahabad, NIT Delhi and so on then you should try to score at least 99+ percentile in JEE-Main 2021 if you belongs to General category and if you belongs to some other reserved categories then 97 percentile or more can also take you there.
See from now very few time is left for JEE-Main 2021 so just to give boost to your JEE-Preparation and bind it up I am enlisting down some preparation tips which would help you in your final preparation :-
- Just go through the notes which you have made at the time of studying different concepts. Grab al formulas thoroughly, you can do this by writing it in the notebook or practice some numerical on it.
- Practice previous year's question papers and sample papers as many as you can because it will enhance your self-confidence and time management skill https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-sample-papers & https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-question-paper
- Don't forget to do exercise and yoga regularly to keep your body mentally and physically fit.
- You can also take JEE-Main Learning package for solving series of mock tests :- https://learn.careers360.com/jee-main-coaching/?icn=JEE_Main_knockout&ici=JEE_Main_article_view_sticky
Also from now you should give more focus to those chapters which have higher weightage as compare to that of others :-
@Physics
Modern Physics - 20 marks
Heat and Thermodynamics - 12 marks
Optics - 12 marks
Current Electricity - 12 marks
Electrostatics - 12 marks
Magnetics - 8 marks
@Chemistry
Transition Elements and Coordination Chemistry - 12 marks
Periodic table and Representative Elements - 12 marks
Thermodynamics And Gaseous State- 8 marks
Atomic Structure - 8 marks
Chemical Bonding - 8 marks
Chemical And Ionic Equilibrium - 8 marks
@Mathematics
Coordinate Geometry - 20 marks
Limits, Continuity and Differentiability - 12 marks
Integral Calculus - 12 marks
Complex numbers and Quadratic Equation - 8 marks
Matrices and Determinants - 8 marks
Statistics and Probability - 8 marks
Vector Algebra - 8 marks
For more detailed preparation tips for JEE-Main 2021 kindly check out the link given below :-
https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-preparation-tips
Some insights of JEE-Main 2021 :-
> To qualify for JEE Mains, there is no minimum aggregate percentage criteria but yes if you want to take admission into NITs, IIITs or CFTIs then you should score a minimum aggregate of 75% in your class 12th if you belongs to General/Unreserved category and 65% if you belongs to any of the reserved category.
> Also from this year according to New Education Policy the JEE-Main examination will be conducted in English, Hindi and other regional languages such as Bengali, Gujarati, Assamese, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Odia and Malayalam.
> In JEE-Main 2021 there will be total 90 question out of which you have to attempt only 75 (25 from each section) and there will be two sections for each subject, Section-A will be of Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQs)(20 compulsory questions) and Section-B will contain Questions whose answers are to be filled in as a numerical value (10 numerical based questions out of which only 5 are compulsory to be attempted).
> In Section B, candidates have to attempt any five questions out of 10. There will be no negative marking for Section B.
> All question will be of 4 marks and in MCQs there will be negative marking of (-1) on incorrect attempt.
This year JEE-Main is being conducted with slight changes in it's pattern and it's conduction and you can check out all the changes from the link given below :-
https://engineering.careers360.com/exams/jee-main
I hope this information helps you.
Good Luck!!
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