Engineering Entrance Exam

With a JEE Mains rank of 23987, you can likely get admission to several NITs (National Institutes of Technology) outside Delhi, including NITs like NIT Patna, NIT Bhopal, NIT Warangal, NIT Trichy, NIT Rourkela, NIT Silchar, and NIT Manipur, depending on your branch preference and home state quota availability. 

With 48% in JEE Mains and 924/1000 marks in your intermediate exam, it is hard to get admitted into SASTRA University as the minimum qualifying percentage in the entrance exam (12th class) is mostly around 60% and SASTRA has both JEE Mains mark and 12th class mark in consideration for admission, while it gives priority to the marks in 12th class.

With a CRL rank of over 3 Lacs but an SC category rank of 21,000, you stand a fair chance of being admitted to certain NITs, IIITs, and GFTIs, particularly lower-ranked ones, since your SC category rank is within a viable range for admission to these colleges; however, the institutes and branches will be determined by the closing ranks for your category in each college.

With an 84 percentile in JEE Mains from the OBC category in 2024, NIT or IIIT admission is difficult but not out of the question. Generally, NITs will have a higher percentile, sometimes over 90 for sought-after branches. But newer NITs or less sought-after branches may take lower-percentile candidates. IIITs also have different cutoffs, and some may take candidates with an 84 percentile. It's best to look for individual cutoffs for each institute and factors such as class 12th marks, which are taken for admission to these institutes.

The GATE 2025 answer key is expected to be released soon on the GATE's official website- gate2025.iitr.ac.in. The steps to challenge or raise objections to the GATE provisional answer key is as follows -

Step 1: Visit the official website of GOAPS

Step 2: Login using registered credentials 

Step 3: Click on the GATE 2025 answer key

Step 4: Select the paper you appeared for

Step 5: Click on "Raise Objection" 

Step 6: Check the question number from the official answer key and enter the question ID 

Step 7: Pay the objection fee through the available payment modes