Exam

IET, Lucknow is far better than the UPES Dehradun as UPES is a private college and IET, Lucknow is a government college. UPES stands nowhere in the national ranking but IET does.

See, there is no such criterion for the admission in UP colleges. In private colleges, you can get admission with any marks scored by you.
For a government college, you have to score a minimum of 350 marks to get into any lower-ranked government college.

It seems unlikely as the score is a bit low. But you may still try your luck.

As far as I am aware, yes, you have to give GD/PI.

You have a good chance. Prepare well for the GD/PI round.

There is a pretty good chance of you getting in if you are good in your GD and PI rounds.

The eligibility criteria for JEE Mains counselling is to just appear for the JEE Mains paper, whether you have qualified the exam or not.
You are eligible for the counselling, but yes, if you haven't secured 75% marks in the boards exams, then you are not eligible for admission in any of the colleges

Yes, With changing test pattern of CAT, Sectional Qualifying marks/cutoff is compulsory to get valuable score/percentile.for more details,kindly visit the following websites as (a) https://shiksha.com/CAT(b)www.imsindia.com

As the difficulties level of test pattern and syllabus are concerned, both exams are similar. How many management institutes are accepting the respective scores is important i.e either ATMA or MAT. You must go through the no. Of institutes respectively. For more details and procedures, kindly visit