Yes, you can, but it would be better if you prepared for jee mains and jee advance rather than viteee.

So, if you prepare for Jee mains instead, won't that help you pass smaller exams along the way?

You can definitely take a break and prepare, but you have to prepare for the best because there are companies that come for placement in the final years but they do not accept students with educational breaks, so you have to be aware and prepare from now only.

Engineering colleges in India offering admission on the basis of VITEEE score are provided below:

VIT Vellore - Vellore Institute of Technology

VIT Chennai - Vellore Institute of Technology

VIT Bhopal - VIT University

VIT-AP University, Amaravati

Woxsen University, Hyderabad

For more information regarding VITEEE consider the link provided below:

https://engineering.careers360.com/exams/viteee

I hope this helps. Wish you a great day!

Greetings!

You can "technically" apply in 5th phase, what that means is that authorities are not going to stop you from doing so, but I don't feel it will yield any results whatsoever.

It can be explained by following example, assume that phase 4 ends on 1lakh, and phase 5 starts from 1 lakh and one, now assuming your daughter had 80K rank, she must have been given preference over remaining 20K students who were in the same phase but had rank greater than that of her.

But now that the counseling of that phase has been concluded all 20K of those would have been allotted some seat, now VIT obviously isn't going to reconsider admission of those 20K because of anyone, so now when you apply for phase 5, as her rank was 80K she will be given preference over the rank 100001. However at the same time you need to note that she didn't got what she wanted even when those 20K students were not considered, now that they also have taken their seats, it is highly unlikely that applying for phase 5 will yield any better results except in the case that she filled wrong preferences. In that case it might be of a bit help

~Sach Thadani