Engineering Entrance Exam

With 73 percentile in JEE Main 2025, admission to NITs is unlikely for general category students, as cutoff percentiles are usually above 88. However, you may get a seat in state government engineering colleges through state counseling. Colleges in Bihar, Rajasthan, or Uttar Pradesh may offer options depending on category and state quota.

Scoring 5 out of 100 (raw marks) in GATE 2025 Mechanical Engineering means you have not qualified. The qualifying mark for the General category is around 25 or more, while for reserved categories it's lower. Since 5 marks is well below the cutoff, no GATE score or rank will be issued.  

The correction window for GATE 2026 will open 1 to 2 weeks after the completion of GATE application form. The exact dates will be notified on the GATE's 2026 official website. During this period, candidates can make specific edits by paying a certain amount of fees. 

Yes, candidates seeking admission in the BTech programme of IIIT Delhi must have a valid JEE Main score. The cutoff is usually less competitive for IIIT Delhi. The highest cutoff scores usually is of Computer Science Engineering. Candidates based on their JEE Main score are allotted seats through JAC Delhi Counselling. In 2024, the JEE Main cutoff for CSE was 6695. 

The fee to add secondary paper is INR 500. The accepted payment modes are credit card, debit card, net banking, and UPI. Candidates are advised to keep a receipt of the payment successful for future purposes. 

To add a secondary paper in the GATE application form, follow the steps below -

• Log in to the GATE 2026 GOAPS portal during the correction period. (The form correction window usually opens for three days after the registration process)
• Select "add secondary paper" option and choose the desired paper and pay the additional fee.
• Ensure that your primary and secondary paper are from the approved combinations prescribed by the authorities. 

Other engineering entrance exams in India are most like JEE Main exams. They are university-specific exams such as BITSAT (BITS Pilani campuses), VITEEE (VIT), and SRMJEEE (SRM University), which examine Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics (and usually English/Logical Reasoning). It also includes a few state level Common Entrance Tests (CET) such as MHT CET (Maharashtra), WBJEE (West Bengal), KCET (Karnataka) and TS EAMCET (Telangana) which are fairly similar in their PCM syllabus and objective based question pattern but may be different in the difficulty level.

Sweet is unlikely that you get an government college for b tech in CSE with 70 percentile in JEE main because most of the NITs and IIT require higher percentile.

But you can look for some private universities mentioned below:-

• LPU
• Nehru Institute Of Technology
• Chandigarh University
• Assam down town University
• Bennett University
• Glocal University
• Pondicherry Engineering College
• SAGE University, Indore
• SRM University

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