Engineering Entrance Exam

There is no such necessity to take coaching to clear the GATE exam for admission to MTech courses; you can get excellent marks and rank through dedicated effort and self-study. Basically, it depends on your learning style, dedication towards clearing the exam, and passion to pursue MTech.

Having said that, coaching can definitely add value because of the structured learning approach followed there, along with expert knowledge and guidance and access to study material that can turn out to be very helpful.

There are various colleges that do not require 75 percent in boards and accept JEE Main result such as DTU, IIT Banglore, IIT Delhi, IIT Hyderabad, IISc Banglore, IISER, Jadavpur University, etc.

The best colleges along with available branches that you can get with 150 marks in JEE Mains are NIT Jalandhar, NIT Silchar, NIT Raipur, NIT Patna, NIT Durgapur, NIT Hamirpur and NIT Manipur. You can also get IIITs such as IIIT Agartala, IIIT Pune, IIIT Lucknow and IIIT Gwalior.

Here are the JEE Mains 2024 cutoff (Session 1):  

• General: 93+ (Top15-20k rank)  
• OBC: 80+  
• SC/ST: 50+  

For NITs/IIITs:  

• Top NITs (Trichy/Surathkal): 95+ (Gen)  
• Mid NITs: 85+  

State quotas might lower cutoffs as well. Session 2 (in April) might also take the cutoffs to change.  

With an 80.03 percentile in JEE Main Session 1, you may get admission in some state-level government engineering colleges, private colleges, or lower-tier NITs through home state quota (if cutoff allows). Core branches in top NITs or IIITs may not be possible. Consider state counseling options like MP DTE, MAH CET, or COMEDK.

Yes, you can get VNIT Nagpur with a cutoff rank of 40,000 if you belong to the General AI category. This category had an overall cutoff range between 617 and 52313

Students can also avail admission if they belong to the General HS quota, as the VNIT Nagpur JEE Main cutoff 2025 varied from 398 to 53434.

The cutoff was also released for other categories in both the quotas, but they will differ from each other.

Based on previous years' data, a score of 56 marks in JEE Main usually places students within the 70 to 80 percentile range. But there is very less chance that you get any good NIT for this percentile.

But for ST category you may get lower branch in lower NIT.

With a 92.5 percentage in JEE Mains 2024 and EWS category, your son can get CSE AIML in IIIT Bhagalpur branch, GFTIs in Assam University Silchar branch, and NIT in NIT Mirzoram/ NIT Nagaland /NIT sikkim branch .