IIT

M.Tech Electronics at IIT is worth a ton of gold (very high values) in today's job market in India and abroad if you have done your graduation degree from a routine run of mill engineering college. Degree from IIT will not only help you to learn from top faculties on subject in India but you can enrich and get benefits in your service career with IIT brand value whole life.

Hi Sanket,
Dropping a year may not have any effect on your career, you may take your all the chances to get admission in the reputed colleges of India.

Hi Harsh,
Since, you want to pursue chemical engineering, so the best college other than IIT-Mumbai is ICT-Mumabi. For this, you need to take MHCET exam and score really well in that.
All the best.

Hi Pratap,
IIT JEE is among the toughest exam on under graduate level, so you need to work very hard for that. Considering your category, it will be little easy for you because the cut-off for SC category is very less.
All the best.

Hello Deepanshu,
Without doubt NITs or CFTIs are the best bet after IITs. You will have to clear JEE Mains with good marks to get admission. These institutions have good faculty members and robust placement cell.

Let's us first agree on cracking CAT and IIT Advance mains. If you are aiming to seek admission in JEE mains admission in legacy IITs in core branch of engineering then it is tougher in comparison to CAT. Also, if you take number of seats and candidate appearing for entrance exams then JEE advance will be tougher in comparison to CAT. One can clear CAT without any preparations if your IQ and communication skills are exceptional.

Hi Kumar,
Since the cut-off of JEE advance is around 75 for general and 67 for OBC students, if you got something closer to 140, you will end up with any good IIT, and even a better branch. Your rank will be less than 6000.
All the best.

Hi Srira,
Admission in all of the IITs and NITs are done through the centralised counselling JOSAA. You cannot apply separately. And for IISC, you need to apply for it separately.