is 99 percentile in general category good in jee mains ??

Hello aspirant,

The National Testing Agency (NTA) will announce the JEE Main 2021 result in the form of the NTA Score/Percentile. ... It is so, in 2020, candidates with 99 percentile got ranks around 8,470. On this rank, candidates are likely to get Chemical Engineering in the aforesaid institute.

99 percentile is an great score for general category students to get admission in some of the top NITs through JEE Mains.But as per previous year's analysis, one should score more than 178 marks to increase the chances of securing 99 percentile. To know more about the normalization process, read the JEE Main Marks Vs Percentile article.

marks Vs ranks Vs Percentile from the link given below :-

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

Thankyou

Hello Aspirant,

Yes of course the percentile you have mentioned is decent enough to take you to good NITs because according to the category and percentile you have mentioned your rank is expected to be in the range of 10230 - 11500, 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 :-

JEE Main Rank Predictor 2021 - Predict your JEE Main 2021 Rank, JEE Main Percentile Calculator

JEE Main Rank Predictor - Know your expected IIT JEE Main 2021 Rank by using Careers360 JEE Main rank predictor tool based on JEE Mains scor ...

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

Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar

Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal

NIT Meghalaya

Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad

National Institute of Technology Calicut

And many more. 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!!

Hello Aspirant,

Yes 99 percentile is an great score for general category students to get admission in some of the top NITs through JEE Mains. As an average percentile needed for an general category candidate is around 97 percentile but as you have an better score you get better and good opportunities.

Checkout the link below for finding out the best colleges based upon your JEE Mains Score.

JEE Main College Predictor 2021 : Predict Colleges based on your JEE Main Rank

JEE Main College Predictor – Know your College Admission Chances Based on your Rank/Percentile, Home State, Caste, Gender, Exam Result & Get ...

Hope this helps

Good Luck!