IIT

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.

If you have to study engineering in good colleges of the country, try once more after preparing for another year. It may sound ridiculous to sit at home and study for another year but trust me it can give you a better chance. If dropping a year is not your option, you can get admission in some less known private colleges. If you want any further information contact me with your field of interest. I'll try to guide you further.