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In the JEE Main and Advanced , the minimum requirement of top 20 percentile means that you are in the top 20 percent of the respective board. In simple language , some boards have very strict marking criteria . So, the top 20 percentile cutoff will be far below 75% like for Odisha board in 2017 it was 331 marks out of 500.
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