CBSE 10th

Helloits totally depend on your interest because both areas have own scope and job opportunity.If you choose according to your interest than you will better perform, and make bright future.
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Commerce is a good option and gives an opportunity to choose an out-of-the-box career option, like one in travel and hospitality, depending on the path and degree you choose. Career options for commerce students are vast and you will always have interesting profiles to work at if you play to your strengths.
Here are some of the job profiles you can look at:
Chartered Accountants, Chartered Financial Analyst, Company Secretary, Loans executive, Human Resource manager, Certified Financial Planner, Economist, Venture capitalist, Agriculture Economics, Accounting, Banking, CWA, Mathematics and Statistics, Stock Broking, CA, CS, Law etc.

I suppose there are lateral entry programs in many colleges in India, where diploma holders can directly join engg colleges in 2nd year. Then you can get many opportunities, and maybe even better than others.

First check your expected rank through Shiksha's rank predictor app https://www.shiksha.com/jee-main-rank-predictor
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HelloNo, there is no compensation for the tougher paper because the exam board consider equal standard of all the online & offline papers. You will get marks according to your right answer, there is no comparison between papers.

Hello, the cut off is usually 70-80 percentile to get to the next round. So there is a chance you will get shortlisted.

Hello, more than your profile, how you perform in the gd pi plays a big part in converting gd pi. Hence, practice for it and you would get selected.

Very good chances atb.

Please check.in.official site.of.fore. whether fore accepts.mat or not. And if so then it is the first time they are accepting it so no speculation can be done about the cut of. All thebest

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