What is the rank difference between SC and general category in the JEE Mains and Advanced exam for students obtaining same marks?

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Vivek Kumar | Guide-Level 13

6 years ago

The SC candidate will have chance to get in some top IIT, then the general category student plus in the low ranked IIT with non core branch. SC candidate can also grab the general students seats if they're vacant.

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Shikhar Patel | Guide-Level 13

6 years ago

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Manish Sharma | Contributor-Level 9

6 years ago

Hello With SC rank, you just have a better opportunity to get admission into same college where you could not have through your general rank. Only this much. Good luck.

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Dhyey Sampat | Contributor-Level 6

3 years ago

Hi, You can visit this link for an understanding on the colleges that you might get with this score. https://www.shiksha.com/university/university-of-Mumbai-856/cutoff-jee-main You can simply search for the college of your choice and check its cutoff. Good luck!

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Sahil Rana | Guide-Level 15

6 years ago

There is a concept of seat reservation for SC, ST in such colleges. So, if you are one of them and score equally to a general category student. There is no difference in All India Rank. If SC and General both get 110 marks in JEE Mains, then both of them have approximately 60000 AIR RANK according t

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Shikhar Singh | Guide-Level 13

6 years ago

There is a concept of seat reservation for SC, ST in such colleges. So, if you are one of them and score equally to a general category student, you will have a better rank and a very good chance of getting a good branch in a good college.

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Bishal Baishya | Guide-Level 12

6 years ago

SC students will have an extra rank list in addition to Common Rank List. In terms of rank cut-off, ranks needs to be way better for the General students. It was done to bring the SC students and their societies to mainstream. So a CRL seat can be claimed by both SC and Unreserved but SC students ge

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Swapnaneel Bhuiya | Scholar-Level 17

7 years ago

The SC candidate will have chance to get in some top IIT, then the general category student plus in the low ranked IIT SC candidate can also grab the general students seats.

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Ritesh Yadav | Contributor-Level 8

7 years ago

The SC candidate will have chance to get in some top IIT, then the general category student plus in the low ranked IIT SC candidate can also grab the general students seats.

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Yash Singhal | Scholar-Level 17

7 years ago

The SC candidate will have chance to get in some top IIT, then the general category student plus in the low ranked IIT SC candidate can also grab the general students seats.

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