Engineering Entrance Exam

At a very disappointing score in JEE Mains percentile, it is best to ready oneself to target those colleges in Uttar Pradesh which either offer direct admissions, or whose admission process is controlled by their self-counseling system (as in most colleges), in which admission will be secure

With a JEE Main rank between 8 to 9 lakh, your chances for NITs, IIITs, and GFTIs through JoSAA/CSAB are extremely low, even with reserved categories. However, you can still get into decent private and state engineering colleges—especially if you make use of state counselling, private university ent

It will require a very high JEE Advanced rank to get admissions in an IIT. In the top IITs (e.g Bombay, Delhi) popular branches such as Computer Science Engineering (CSE) may require an All India Rank (AIR) of below 100-200 in the General category. In other faculty members and newer IITs ranks can g

The likely JEE Main 2026 cutoff for qualifying JEE Advanced is above 92 percentile for the general category. To gain admission to NITs or IIITs (core branches), target a score of 210–250+ marks, which corresponds to around the 99th percentile.

It highly depends on your both ranks,

You must have search if you rank is lower in unreserved ranks or category ranks 

If you have lower rank in category rank you must use the category rank in college prediction.

In maximum case the category ranks are much lower than you should use category

With 9.1 lakh rank in JEE Mains chances at NITs, IIITs or GFTIs are almost zero unless you have a super strong category rank. You can still get private colleges that accept JEE score like Amity, SRM, Chitkara or Galgotias. Also, try state counselling some keep seats open in spot rounds.

With 82 percentile and general category, it'll be hard to get NITs or IIITs but you can still try state engineering colleges in Haryana like DCRUST Murthal or YMCA Faridabad through HSTES counselling. Private colleges like Amity or Panipat Institute are also options if placements matter to you.

If your JEE Mains rank is 2,33,795 you can give JEE advanced since eligibility is being among top 2,50,000 in Mains plus meeting academic criteria.

With 92577 ews rank getting CSE in any NIT is super unlikely even the newer NITs close CSE way earlier maybe around 20k to 40k ews rank. You can try for other branches like mechanical or ECE in later rounds but you cannot get CSE at NITs.

with 114000 sc rank in JEE Mains it's honestly very tough to get any NIT iiit or gfti almost all seats close way before this rank you can still try private colleges that accept JEE score or look at state counselling options some may have seats in spot rounds or management quota