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The Indian Institute of Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) released the GATE 2025 provisional answer key along with GATE master question paper and response sheet on Feb 27, 2025. Candidates can access the answer key and question paper using their enrollment ID and password through the GOAPS portal. The last date to raise objection was March 1, 2025. 

Securing admission to the most coveted branches of top-tier IITs may be difficult if you have a SC category rank of 2800 in JEE Advanced because their cutoffs for SC candidates are usually substantially lower You might however have prospects in less-demanded disciplines or at more recent IITs.

For example, in the final round of seat distribution in 2024 the SC category closing ranks at IIT Bombay reached 3,506. This implies that some branches may have higher closing ranks even when elite branches like computer Science and engineering have far lower cutoffs.

No, a girl belonging to the OBC Creamy Layer category does not get any reservation in IIT admissions.In the IIT admission process (JEE Advanced), reservations for Other Backward Classes (OBC) apply only to candidates belonging to the Non-Creamy Layer (OBC-NCL) category. Since the candidate falls under the Creamy Layer, she will be considered under the General (Unreserved) category and will not be eligible for OBC-NCL benefits.

To take a B.Sc from an IIT, studying Mathematics in your 12th-grade subjects is generally required. All IITs provide B.Sc courses in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Data Science, which demand a good background in mathematics. If you are a student of Biology without Mathematics, you might not be able to take these courses. But IIT Madras has an Online B.Sc in Data Science where students without mathematical backgrounds can be admitted through a foundation course. To be admitted to IITs' general B.Sc programs, you have to be qualified for JEE Advanced, and that means having Mathematics as a mandatory subject at 12th grade.

Since you have a preparatory SC rank of 3900 in JEE Advanced 2024, you can possibly get admission in the IITs' preparatory course. The preparatory course is usually available for reserved category candidates (SC/ST/PwD) who do not have the cutoff for regular admission but have potential. The preparatory course cut-off rank will differ based on the number of seats available and the overall merit of candidates.

It is most unlikely that a candidate with OBC rank of 6000 in JEE Advanced will find admission in one of the brand IITs for a hot discipline such as electrical engineering or computer science. But in certain IITs, you can have hope in less popular disciplines such as environmental, civil, or metallurgical engineering. Which IIT it is and also the competition prevailing in the year you are taking the test will also make your chances of getting admitted.