It depends upon the JEE Main and JEE Advance cut offs, If You manage to qualify the exam by achieving the cut off, You can apply for JOSAA Counselling. It should be noted the cut off for EWS/SC/ST/FEMALES/OBC category is lower than the general category

If you manage to qualify JEE Main Cutoff, You would be eligible for JEE Advance which is the intake exam for IITs as mentioned above.


However It is usually advised to fill the choices as per the preference of colleges and departments, for example CSE in NIT Trichy is your priority followed by CSE in NIT Warangal, you can fill CSE at NIT Trichy at serial number 1 and CSE at NIT Warangal at serial number 2 and so on and so forth. However to get any NIT, you must have qualified JEE Mains and to get any IIT, you must have qualifies JEE Advanced

But the previous cut offs of colleges should be taken in consideration, it is better to research over the cut off of colleges then make a preference list of colleges and fill accordingly

For the college preferences and the courses provided by these colleges and to know which colleges participate in the JOSAA counselling, please go to the below mentioned link: https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/josaa-participating-institutes/amp

For college prediction as per your marks and rank, please go through the below mentioned link: https://www.careers360.com/college-predictor

Rest for information on any particular college, you can dig their official site for better information

The JEE MAINS rank is valid for the applying year only. Thus your JEE MAINS 2020 rank was only valid for JEE MAINS 2020 JOSAA counselling. Now if you wish to apply for counselling 2021 then you must have JEE MAINS 2021 valid score. Thus you can't apply for JEE MAINS 2021 counselling with the rank of JEE MAINS 2020. You can only apply if you appear for JEE MAINS 2021 and have a valid score of JEE MAINS 2021.

To know more about JEE MAINS COUNSELLING visit the link below:

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-counselling

I hope this answer helps. All the very best for your future endeavors!

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