Is it compulsory to write JEE advanced after qualifying for JEE mains to get seat or can I get seat through JEE mains only but not attempting JEE advanced
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Hi
No, it is not mandatory to appear in jee advanced after qualifying jee advanced.
You can get admission in NITs, IIITs, GFTIs etc on the basis of your rank in jee main.
But,
If you want get admission in IITs then admission is through jee advanced only so if you want to get admission in IITs then in that it is mandatory to appear in jee advanced and qualifying it.
To know the college which you can get with your percentile score , you can use our JEE main college predictor
It gives you a personalised report on your chances of getting a college with the complete list of colleges which you can get on the basis of the category you belong to, your home state, your gender etc, the link for jee main college predictor is provided below:-
Jee main paper 1 for be/ btech college predictor:-
https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer
Jee main paper 2 college predictor :-
https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-architecture-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer
For previous year cut offs of top colleges like NITs, IIITs, GFTIs , you can refer our page at :-
NITs :- https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/nits-cutoff-for-top-btech-branches
IIITs:- https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff-for-top-iiits
GFTIs :- https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff-for-top-gftis
Or alternately you can visit official website of josaa at
https://josaa.nic.in/Result/Result/currentorcr.aspx
If I tell you about jee main qualifying cut off then,
On the analysing previous year cutoff of JEE Mains, JEE mains 2021 expected qualifying CUT OFF percentile is given below for different categories to be eligible for jee advanced:
. . JEE MAIN CUT OFF PERCENTILE
Category jeemain2020 jeemain2021 expected off
General :- 90.3765335 90-95
GEN-EWS :- 70.2435518 70 -75
OBC-NCL :- 72.8887969 70 -75
SC :- 50.1760245 50 -55
ST :- 39.0696101 40 - 45
PwD :- 0.0618524 1- 2
You can check the same at
https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff
You can get the detailed below information about jee advanced eligibility criteria by visiting our page the link for the same is provided below
https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-advanced-eligibility-criteria
Thank you
You can admission to NITs, IIITs, and other Government Funded Technical Institutes (GFTIs) on the basis of score obtained in JEE Mains. It is not compulsory to appear in JEE Advanced exam to take admission in these institutes.
But if you wish to get IITs, then you have to appear in JEE Advanced. JEE Advanced is conducted to offer admissions in Bachelor’s, Integrated Master’s or Bachelor’s Master dual degree course in IITs.
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