Rank Below 2 Lakh In JEE Main? List Of NITs Where You Could Get A Seat

Rank Below 2 Lakh In JEE Main? List Of NITs Where You Could Get A Seat

Updated on 08 Apr 2024, 05:53 PM IST

The Joint Entrance Examination Main (JEE Main), conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) for admission in undergraduate engineering programmes does not have any qualifying marks. The cut-off marks announced by the NTA with the JEE Main result are for screening students who will be allowed to appear for JEE Advanced for admission to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). Therefore, every student who appears for JEE Main, including the ones who have got negative marks in any or all three subjects, is assigned a JEE Main rank. Plus, all students assigned ranks are eligible to participate in the seat allocation process of Joint Seat Allocation Authority, or JoSAA counselling . Screening for admissions is based on the Class 12 qualifying status and the JEE Main rank.

Rank Below 2 Lakh In JEE Main? List Of NITs Where You Could Get A Seat
NIT Puducherry admit BTech students at ranks lower than 2 lakh for one course (Image: Official website)

This means that a student who has passed Class 12 with the minimum specified marks and who has appeared for JEE Main and secured a rank will be eligible for admissions in the order of their merit, or position on the rank list. This has allowed students with relatively low ranks, such as between two lakh and eight lakh and even below, to secure admission in some of the National Institutes of Technology (NIT). This unique situation is restricted to the NITs where each institute has 50 percent seats reserved for students from the same state in which the NIT is located. This is the home state quota. Here’s a look at the NITs where students with JEE ranks from two lakh to eight lakh and below have secured admissions.

For this analysis, Careers360 has considered only open category seats in the home state quota.

NIT Agartala: JEE Main Ranks Below 2 Lakh

Given below are the ranks at which general category candidates secured admission in NIT Agartala in 2023.

Counselling Course Name

Opening Rank

Closing Rank

Production Engineering

198832

326262

Chemistry (5 Years BSc-MSc Dual Degree))

250740

316556

Engineering Physics (5 Years BTech-MTech Dual Degree)

233128

295549

Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering

85416

287950

Chemical Engineering

109154

280589

Civil Engineering

94302

245373

Mathematics & Computing (5 Years BSc-MSc Dual Degree))

154516

242884

Physics (5 Years BSc-MSc Dual Degree))

45913

237897

The above table shows that at NIT Agartala, branches like Production Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering (CE) and Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering are not as popular as other branches like Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE), Computer Science Engineering (CSE) or Electrical Engineering(EE).

The dual degree courses like Engineering Physics and Chemistry also are not as popular as the core branches.

NIT Meghalaya: JEE Main Ranks Below 2 Lakh

NIT Meghalaya has seen allotments to JEE Main ranks below 2 lakh but only for home state quota for three out of five branches, including Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE), ECE and CE.

Counselling Course Name

Opening Rank

Closing Rank

Civil Engineering

142261

257202

Electrical and Electronics Engineering

138346

237583

Electronics and Communication Engineering

121773

220988

CSE and ME are the branches where students under two lakh rank opt for in NIT Meghalaya.

NIT Sikkim: JEE Main Ranks Below 2 Lakh

NIT Sikkim admitted students with below two lakhs to all its programmes. In one case, the closing ranking in JoSAA seat allotment dropped to below 10 lakh.

Counselling Course Name

Opening Rank

Closing Rank

Civil Engineering

527505

1005918

Mechanical Engineering

311356

817562

Electronics and Communication Engineering

174848

713531

Electrical and Electronics Engineering

251666

639272

Computer Science and Engineering

78672

405836

While NIT Sikkim has seen the last seat in Computer Science Engineering, one of the most popular branches, allotted to students with JEE Main ranks around four lakh, other core branches like ME, CE, ECE and EEE have seen allotments to JEE Main ranks below six lakh.

NIT Mizoram: JEE Main Ranks Below 2 lakh

The table below shows that the closing rank was below six lakh to 10 lakh for several courses.

Counselling Course Name

Opening Rank

Closing Rank

Mechanical Engineering

636017

1014892

Mathematics and Computing

834722

834722

Electronics and Communication Engineering

589620

809789

Civil Engineering

234729

678406

Electrical Engineering

560594

661107

Computer Science and Engineering

284473

516872


Seats under the home state quota in NIT Mizoram for all branches including core branches have been allotted to students with JEE Main ranks below 2 lakh. All these courses had their cut-offs dropping to below 2 lakh, even in the first round of JoSAA counselling.

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NIT Puducherry: JEE Main Ranks Below 2 Lakh

Just one programme admitted at ranks lower than 2 lakh in NIT Puducherry.

Counselling Course Name


Opening Rank


Closing Rank


Civil Engineering

186956

225349

The last seat in Civil Engineering at NIT Puducherry in 2023 was allotted to a home state student with a JEE Main rank below 2 lakh. NIT Puducherry is a relatively new NIT compared to NITs in Agartala, Mizoram or Meghalaya.

NIT Manipur: JEE Main Ranks Below 2 Lakh

All branches of NIT Manipur admitted students with rank below two lakh. Core branches like ME and EE had students with ranks above four lakhs too.

Counselling Course Name



Opening Rank

Closing Rank


Electronics and Communication Engineering

341866

749669

Mechanical Engineering

157954

667509

Electrical Engineering

101231

407152

Computer Science and Engineering

93261

364827

Civil Engineering

97608

229695

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Have a question related to JEE Main ?

Hello dear student,

there is no fixed marks requirement to appear JEE Mains exams you just need to complete your 12th with

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If you are preparing for you jee mains 2026 then yes P block holds a good weightage in your exams as it is a part of chemistry . And yes P block elements is included in jee mains 2026 syllabus so it is good for you to prepare for the exams accordingly and does not leave this leave for the same thankyou .

You can download the last 10 years of JEE Main question papers from below link

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It is available in PDF format with solutions.you can easily download it..

Prepare well..

Good luck!!

Hello,

you can appear for the TALLENTEX or StarNxt test while in class 10.The offline exams for TALLENTEX 2026 are scheduled for October 5 and October 12 in 2025.you can register online at tallentex.com.

You can also take the ALLEN Scholarship Admission Test (ASAT) and if you score 85% and above in it, you will definitely get a scholarship. Also you get one of the best batches too.

If you're a NTSE scholar, good at National and state Olympiads. You can enlist yourself for Allen Champ.


Basically it is based on academic achievements you have, the more you bag award you are more likely to get a scholarship.

Good luck!!

Hello,

JEE Main 2026 will be held in two sessions. Session 1 is expected in the last week of January 2026 and Session 2 in the first week of April 2026 .

JEE Advanced 2026 is expected to be conducted in May 2026 (likely in mid or last week of May) after JEE Main results.

The exact dates will be announced by NTA and IIT in their official notifications.

Hope it helps !