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
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:

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

Dear prajwal,

First of all congratulations to your son who has got 96.19 percentile score in jee mains 2020.

Now as your son has got rank 41459 in jee mains 2020, then from general category getting a seat in nit surathkal will be difficult.
It may be possible that he can not get any seat in nit surathkal.

Here are the previous year (2019) cutoff for different branches for general category home state male candidate in nit surathakal :-

Chemical engineering - 17679
Civil engineering - 28144
Computer science engineering - 3561
Electronics and Communication Engineering - 6164
Mechanical Engineering - 14895
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering - 29465
Mining Engineering - 38716
Electrical and Electronics Engineering - 10031
Information Technology - 7280

So there is almost a negligible chance that he can get a seat in nit surathakal. Even getting a seat in  mining engineering also has a very less or no chance for him.

But that doesn't means that he will not get any seat in a good reputed government college.

Try at hbti kanpur, because with this much general rank your son can easily get a good branch in hbti Kanpur.

Also Check out the cutoff trends for some to btech branches for different nits :-
https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/nits-cutoff-for-top-btech-branches/amp

Also check out the cutoff trends for different top nits for different branches :-
https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff-for-top-nits/amp


Also check out our jee mains college predictor tool to get an appropriate idea about the colleges that your son can get with this much general category rank in jee mains 2020 :-
https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer

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