Engineering Entrance Exam

MIT Academy of Engineering, MAEER is a premier institute. The cut-offs are generally high. 40 percentile is comparatively low, the last cut-off rank for the last year was 264031, which if calculated is approximately 75 percentile. The minimum percentile required to any college is 50-60 percentile. 

Since you have not mentioned your category so consider it as general. You might not get the excellent colleges of your expectations but on such percentile and category, you have some chances of getting some colleges through MHT CET counseling according to the previous year's cut-off. You can try and apply to these colleges if you are genuinely interested in engineering.

1. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Institute of Technology, Shedung, Panvel

2. Dr. D. Y. Patil School OF Engineering, Lohegaon, Pune

3. Vidyavardhini's College of Engineering and Technology, Vasai

You can expect a rank between 615134 to 796929. It would be best if you prepare for another attempt at JEE Mains. If you don't want to appear for JEE Mains, then you can opt for the colleges where you can get admitted to the colleges where you can get admitted without the JEE Mains. Some colleges that accept admission to BTech courses without JEE Mains or any other exams are:

• Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE)
• Shiv Nadar University
• Amity University
• Chandigarh University

With a JEE Main rank of 214000, you may still have opportunities to get admission to some colleges. While the top NITs, GFTs, IIITs might be difficult to get into with this rank, you may still have a chance at some of the less popular ones. Many state engineering colleges accept JEE main scores for admission. You might have a chance at these colleges depending on the specific cutoffs. Many private colleges accept JEE main scores. Some of these colleges might have higher cut-offs and could be an option. You are advised to visit: JEE Main Rank Predictor 2024: Calculate JEE Rank From Percentile/Score

Yes, you can get in to Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Engineering with 60 percentile in JEE . But there are other colleges which you can go for. You can easily get admission to various engineering collegs with 60 percentile in OBC Category. B.Tech JEE Main cut off last year was 1146 for general category and for furter updates you can refer to college website or Shiksha website.

NITs are renowned for their engineering programs across various disciplines. The rank of 5800 JEE Mains might get you a seat in some of the top NITs, depending on specific NIT and the branch availability. NIT is a government recognised institute which might help you secure better positions in future. You must consider your choice on the basis of the branch you would persue. On the other hand IIIT Banglore being a private institue may lack in teaching infrastructure in making students industry ready.

Admission criteria for government architecture colleges can vary, NATA is mostly used by private colleges. You have to give JEE Mains paper 2 for government college where you would need minimum of 75% of score in class 12th and a awesome ranking in JEE Mains paper 2. You can go for the following colleges:

• Rizwi College of Architecture, Mumbai
• DY Patil College of Architecture, Pune
• Bharti Vidyapeeth COA, Pune
• Rachna Sansad COA, Mumbai
• College of Architecture, Mumbai University

A Das Gupta and Cengage are some of the best books for JEE with lots of multiple choice questions. A Das Gupta has many unsolved and solved questions whereas Cengage is known for the quality of questions included in the material. I recommend you to go with A Das Gupta first as the terminology is difficult in Cengage.But, not only to solve das gupta is enough for your JEE preparation. It consist of limited and less explored questions.Cengage is a very good book for mathematics and questions are of different variety from easy to hard.