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ADITYA KUMAR Student Expert 16th Sep, 2021

Hello

Your profile suggests that your home state is Punjab. Assuming you a general category candidate.

With 3.5 lakh rank

You have low chance in NITs.

For example,

When we go through previous year trend then ,

Under other state quota , closing rank for some of the nits for which closing rank goes low are listed below along with their closing rank in the 6th round of josaa counselling 2020 for general category  :-

  • National Institute of Technology Sikkim, Civil Engineering :- 47412

  • National Institute of Technology, Mizoram, Civil Engineering:- 49757

  • National Institute of Technology Agartala, Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering :- 50,010

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You can check the same at

https://josaa.nic.in/Result/Result/currentorcr.aspx

From above, it is clear that you need at least a rank of around 45,000 - 50,000 to get into an NIT .

But yes,

With your rank,

Some of the engineering colleges in which you hold a chance on the basis of past year closing rank are listed below along with the link for their previous year cutoff :-

------) DY Patil College of Engineering, Pune:- https://www.careers360.com/colleges/dy-patil-college-of-engineering-pune/cut-off

----------)MH Saboo Siddik College of Engineering, Mumbai :- https://www.careers360.com/colleges/mh-saboo-siddik-college-of-engineering-mumbai/cut-off?college_id=4990&exam_sub_exam_id=2&ici=college_view_cutoffs

---------)Shree LR Tiwari College of Engineering, Thane:- https://www.careers360.com/colleges/shree-lr-tiwari-college-of-engineering-thane/cut-off?college_id=3158&exam_sub_exam_id=2&ici=college_view_cutoffs

This prediction of colleges is  based of past year data but  cut off or closing rank changes every year depending upon many factors like the number of students that give the examination, difficulty level of the JEE main  for different shifts etc so

To have a personalised report on your chances of getting a college you can go through our college predictor, it will give you 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

https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer

To help you  further,

Minimum percentile in jee main 2021 to qualify it to  be eligible for jee advanced 2021 is given below :-

--------) general :-87.8992241 percentile

--------) EWS:- 66.2214845 percentile

--------) OBC-NCL :- 68.0234447 percentile

--------) SC :- 46.8825338 percentile

--------) ST:- 34.6728999 percentile

--------) PWD :- 0.0096375 percentile


Thank you

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