Engineering Entrance Exam

If you scored 57% in 12th and 84%ile in JEE Mains, you can apply to the colleges which comes under JoSAA counseling process. going by your percentile score your expected AIR would be 1,50,000 – 2,00,000. Few of the colleges that this student may consider are National Institute of Technology (NIT) Warangal, NIT Surathkal, NIT Trichy for which the cutoffs begin from 70000 AIR to 150000 AIR. Other options are IIITs like IIIT Hyderabad, IIIT Bangalore and IIIT Allahabad with rank of 50000 to 120000 AIR. Also for the candidate there are other private institutes such as BITS Pilani, VIT Vellore, SRM university where separate counseling is conducted.

JoSAA counsellling makes it possible for you to get admission into NITs, IIITs, and GFTIs close to Telangana with a JEE Main CRL rank of 152000 and 96% in intermediate. The colleges that you might also wish to look at are: NIT Warangal, IIIT Hyderabad, IIIT Nuzvid, GFTIs – IIT Tirupati or IIT Palakkad. But the branch and college allotment depends upon the candidates rank, category and the number of seats available in particular branch and college. Of the total number of seats available in these colleges, half-half or nearly 60 percent of the seats are provided to students hailing from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, respectively. Remember that cutoff ranks may change from one year to the other in order to accommodate varying numbers of students.

That is why you cannot change your category from General to OBC in your JEE Main application form after the JEE Advanced paper. Under the JEE rules, candidates can avail of category change only during the JEE Main correction window but the correction window only opens for 2-3 days. Again, alterations cannot be made once the correction window has been closed. The reason behind this is that JEE Advanced is conducted after the JEE Main therefore changes in your category are not allowed after writing the JEE Advanced paper. About 27% of the seats are reserved for OBC candidates but for that you ahs to have applied at the time of JEE Main in the right OBC category.