Can someone get into IIT with less than 75% in board exams?

If boards percent is less than 75%, can someone with good percentile in JEE Mains still apply for JEE Advanced and hence be part of advanced counselling and get subsequently into IIT?

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Hello SSD, this question keeps cropping up again and again in different forums and even in the courts of law. However at least till now all the challenges to this rule of 75% in board has with held and continuous to rule the roost. This rule is in vogue for many years now and it was relaxed only dur

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