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JEE-Main: Joint Entrance Exam MainEngineering · 2026 admissions
Enter one official rank and its matching category to review initial NIT, IIIT and GFTI matches. Sign in for complete results, comparisons, exports and a session shortlist.
Uses available historical closing cutoffs. Every result includes its chance label and supporting evidence; final allotment remains with the official counselling authority.
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Applicable rank, category, quota, gender and domicile are applied where supported.
Available years and counselling contexts are compared like-for-like.
High, Medium and Low chance remain historical estimates, with years and volatility shown alongside them.
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The JEE Main College Predictor 2026 compares your rank, category, domicile and quota and gender-based seat pool with historical closing cutoffs from official NTA and JoSAA publications. It returns qualified chance bands to help you research a shortlist before official counselling.
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A prediction estimates historical fit. Seat availability, preferences and current-year counselling decisions still determine final allotment.
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Use the rank shown on your official JEE Main scorecard. Exact inputs produce the most useful comparison.
Choose the applicable category, domicile and quota, plus the seat-pool gender. The predictor compares like-for-like cutoff records.
Review High, Medium and Low chance matches with the cutoff context available for each option, then verify your shortlist on the official counselling portal.
About this predictor
Exam-specific context, cutoffs and counselling guidance.
A JEE Main college predictor estimates which NIT, IIIT, IIEST Shibpur and Other-GFTI programme choices may fit your rank profile. The current predictor is a broad historical screen. It groups each college, course and subcategory, then summarises each historical year with the most permissive available closing cutoff across rounds. The result is not a round-specific probability or a seat guarantee.
The form accepts one rank value and one selected category per run. For an OPEN or General run, enter the official Common Rank List rank, usually shown as CRL. For a reserved-category run, enter the applicable official category rank where the underlying JoSAA cutoff is category-rank based. One run does not combine CRL-based OPEN options with category-rank reserved options. Run those profiles separately and compare them afterward.
The predictor above is most useful when the entered rank matches the selected category:
Initial named matches are available before sign-in. Signing in unlocks the complete results, comparisons, exports and a shortlist for the current session. The shortlist is session-based rather than a persistent saved-colleges library.
As of 18 August 2026, JoSAA has announced Round 5 seat allocation. The official JoSAA notice also places the NIT+ Partial Admission Fee process after Round 5. Physical reporting for NIT+ candidates who are not participating in CSAB or DASA runs from 13-18 August 2026. Candidates using the special-round route should follow the CSAB official site rather than an old JoSAA timeline.
This distinction matters: JoSAA also handles IIT allocation, but an IIT prediction requires a JEE Advanced rank. A JEE Main percentile or CRL cannot be used to predict IIT admission. This page concerns the JEE Main route to participating NIT+ institutes and should not be read as an IIT predictor.
The current output is an initial screen, not an exact simulation of a JoSAA round. It applies one entered rank to the selected category, groups matching records by college, course and subcategory, and reduces each historical year to the most permissive available cutoff across its rounds. Exact round, quota, gender-pool and rank-basis checks belong to the manual verification stage described below.
The JEE Main official website is the source for the scorecard and examination notices. For an OPEN or General run, use the official CRL. For a reserved-category run, use the official category rank when JoSAA states that the selected seat type's cutoff uses that category rank. Reconstructing either rank from marks or percentile introduces avoidable error.
NTA conducts JEE Main across multiple sessions and shifts. Percentile normalisation is intended to express a candidate's relative performance within the applicable session framework. Raw marks from two shifts should not be treated as directly interchangeable because the papers and candidate distributions differ.
Raw marks describe one paper attempt. Percentile and the final rank place that performance within the NTA ranking process.
A marks-to-rank estimate should not override the applicable official rank printed on the NTA scorecard.
A percentile can still help with early planning. A common rough formula is:
Estimated CRL = (100 - percentile) / 100 x total unique candidates
This is arithmetic, not NTA's final rank-generation method. It cannot reproduce tie rules, the combined candidate pool across sessions, duplicate appearances, score normalisation or the precise distribution near a percentile. It also cannot derive a reliable category rank.
CRL and category rank are not interchangeable. CRL places the candidate in the overall Common Rank List. A category rank places an eligible candidate within the relevant reserved-category list.
The current form has one rank field. The API filters historical records to the selected category and uses that same entered rank for the run. It does not accept CRL and category rank as separate inputs, and it does not combine both rank lists in one result set.
To screen both routes, run OPEN or General with the official CRL. Then start a separate reserved-category run with the applicable official category rank where JoSAA's cutoff note says that seat type is category-rank based. Keep the outputs separate until you verify the official records. Do not convert CRL into a category rank with a fixed ratio.
JoSAA allocation may consider an eligible reserved-category candidate for OPEN seats on CRL merit and for reserved seats on the applicable category rank. That allocation rule does not change the predictor's one-category-per-run behaviour.
Certificate validity is equally important. Selecting OBC-NCL or GEN-EWS in a tool does not create eligibility. JoSAA applies the current format, issuing authority and validity requirements. If the certificate does not satisfy those rules, a promising category-based screen may not survive document verification.
The current predictor groups records by college, course and subcategory. Within each historical year, it uses the most permissive available closing cutoff across the rounds present in that group. In practical terms, the yearly summary keeps the furthest-reaching cutoff found across those rounds.
The form does not accept a counselling-round input. The output does not state that the candidate matched a specific round, and it does not calculate an exact round-specific probability. A permissive yearly cutoff is useful for discovery, but it can make the first screen broader than the result from an exact Round 1, Round 5 or CSAB check.
After the broad screen, verify promising options against the official record. A closing rank has meaning only with its full set of labels. The manual comparison key is:
Year + institute + academic programme + seat type + quota + gender pool + round
Changing any one field can change the opening and closing ranks. CSE under OPEN, OS, gender-neutral in Round 5 is not the same record as CSE under OBC-NCL, HS, female-only in Round 5. It is also not the same record as the identical seat pool in Round 1 or in a different year.
This record-level manual check is the main defence against false precision. A broad statement such as "95 percentile can get an NIT" leaves out the fields that decide whether a specific seat was historically available to a specific profile.
The current screen compares the most permissive cross-round summary from each available historical year. One year can be unusual. A new programme may attract uncertain demand, an institute may alter its seat matrix, or candidate preference may shift. Several completed cycles give more context than one yearly summary.
Historical data should not be averaged blindly. If an institute changes a programme name, creates a new specialisation or changes the applicable seat pool, older records may not describe the current choice. The yearly maximum also hides round-to-round movement, so use official round records before treating a result as realistic.
The source should also remain visible. JoSAA opening and closing ranks are the authoritative record for JoSAA rounds. CSAB special-round cutoffs belong to a separate process and should be labelled as CSAB data. Candidate surveys, counselling videos and forum posts may help explain preferences, but they are not substitutes for official allotment records.
A flat yes or no suggests more certainty than historical cutoffs can support. The broad yearly summaries can still support planning bands:
Because each yearly summary uses the most permissive available cutoff across rounds, every band is a screening label. There is no universal percentage margin that works for every programme, and the labels are not round-specific admission probabilities.
The label is a decision aid. JoSAA's allocation system does not see or use a predictor's safe, moderate or reach classification.
Percentile is often the first number a candidate remembers, but counselling operates on ranks. The difference becomes important when many candidates are concentrated in a narrow percentile band. A small percentile change can represent a large change in CRL, while the size of that change depends on the year's candidate pool and score distribution.
The table below uses the simple formula above and the 14,75,103 unique-candidate figure recorded for JEE Main 2025 in the source material. It shows why percentile-to-rank numbers must be treated as historical arithmetic. These are not official 2026 ranks, category ranks or admission cutoffs.
The calculation assumes a smooth distribution and a known candidate count. Real ranks do not follow that smooth line exactly. Near dense parts of the distribution, two candidates with close percentiles can be separated by many ranks. At the extreme top, a tiny percentile difference may represent a much smaller absolute group.
For a 2026 counselling decision, ignore this table if the official scorecard already gives the rank. Enter the rank. The table remains useful for understanding scale and for testing a hypothetical better-rank or worse-rank scenario before the final rank is known.
Raw marks are tied to a particular shift. A marks-versus-percentile table built from another shift, session or year may give a misleading estimate. Even a carefully prepared historical table needs the exam date, shift and data source beside it.
The confidence order is straightforward:
Do not infer a category rank by applying a fixed multiplier to CRL. Category rank depends on the eligible category pool and the year's result data. Use the category rank printed on the scorecard.
HS and OS can produce different cutoff records for the same NIT programme. The labels refer to quota eligibility under JoSAA rules. They should not be reduced to a casual question about where the candidate lives.
JoSAA determines the state code of eligibility under its business rules. It is commonly tied to the place of the Class 12 or equivalent qualifying examination through which the candidate became eligible, not simply a native place, family address, Aadhaar address or informal domicile description. Special cases must be handled under the current rules.
A candidate who lives in one state, studied earlier classes in another and took the qualifying examination in a third should not guess. Check the state code shown or derived under the current JoSAA rules and retain the qualifying-examination documents used to establish it.
For many NIT seat pools, the seat matrix separates Home State and Other State quotas. The exact distribution must be read from the current seat matrix rather than assumed for every institute and programme. IIEST, IIITs and Other-GFTIs may use quota structures that differ from a typical NIT row.
Start with the candidate's state code of eligibility. For an NIT in that state, inspect the HS record if the programme and seat matrix provide one. For NITs in other states, inspect the corresponding OS record. Then repeat the comparison for each applicable seat type and gender pool.
Do not assume HS is always easier or OS is always harder. Historical demand can produce exceptions, particularly in less common programmes or small seat pools. The official row answers the question for that programme, category, gender pool, year and round.
A good shortlist shows the quota beside every result. If the result only displays an institute and branch, the candidate cannot audit the comparison and may copy the wrong cutoff into the choice list.
Category and gender affect the seat pool being compared, not the value of a candidate or the quality of an institute. The practical task is to select the records for which the candidate is eligible and use the right rank list for each record.
An OBC-NCL, GEN-EWS, SC or ST candidate should not ignore the OPEN route. If the CRL is competitive for an OPEN seat, JoSAA may consider the candidate in that pool under its rules. The current predictor does not combine that CRL comparison with a reserved-category comparison in one run.
Run OPEN or General separately with the official CRL. Then run the eligible reserved category with the applicable official category rank where the JoSAA cutoff is category-rank based. The form's single rank field is applied to the category selected for that run; it does not infer or add another rank list.
JoSAA cutoff tables distinguish gender-neutral and female-only pools where applicable. Female candidates may have valid comparisons in both pools under the allocation rules. Other candidates should not be compared with female-only closing ranks.
Female-only, including supernumerary, seats are intended to improve female representation, but the exact seat matrix is institute and programme specific. Do not apply a fixed percentage from an old article to every 2026 choice. Use the current official seat matrix and the exact gender label shown in the cutoff data.
Category certificates can be time-sensitive and format-sensitive. The safest workflow is to read the current JoSAA document instructions, compare the certificate with the prescribed format and resolve a mismatch before reporting.
The JoSAA official site states that the 2026 joint seat allocation covers 138 institutes. The published composition is 23 IITs, IISc Bengaluru, 31 NITs, IIEST Shibpur, 26 IIITs and 56 Other-GFTIs.
"IIIT coverage" means the IIITs participating in JoSAA and the programmes listed in the official seat matrix. It does not mean every institute in India that uses IIIT in its name or every separate admissions route. The same caution applies to government-funded institutes outside the JoSAA list.
IIT seat allocation is based on the JEE Advanced route and its applicable rank lists. A high JEE Main percentile may indicate strong exam performance, but it is not an IIT counselling rank. To assess IIT choices, use the JEE Advanced rank and the corresponding IIT opening and closing ranks.
This predictor can still help a candidate who also qualified through JEE Advanced, but only for the JEE Main side of the decision: NITs, participating IIITs, IIEST and Other-GFTIs. Keep the two rank systems separate when comparing options.
The number of participating institutes does not tell a candidate how many seats exist in a particular branch, category, quota or gender pool. Seat availability is defined in the programme-level seat matrix. A national total can sound informative while saying little about one candidate's actual comparison.
For that reason, this guide does not convert the 138-institute count into a claimed admission probability. It uses the count to describe scope and directs programme-level decisions back to official seat and cutoff records.
The current status is no longer "counselling expected" or "dates pending." Round 5 seat allocation has been announced. Candidates should act from their present allotment and reporting status, not from pre-counselling advice written earlier in the year.
The table deliberately avoids restating unverified time slots, fee amounts or special-round dates. Those details can change through official notices and depend on the candidate's route. Open the linked notice before making a payment, travelling for reporting or assuming that an online step is complete.
A Round 5 closing rank is useful only when it matches the complete candidate and programme dimensions. The current predictor does not perform that exact round-level comparison. Its historical yearly summary uses the most permissive available cutoff across rounds, so a listed option does not mean the candidate matched Round 5 or any other named round. Verify the exact category, quota, gender pool and round on the official source.
Historical articles may refer to a different number of JoSAA rounds in another year. Do not map an old "Round 6" table onto 2026 without checking the current official schedule. Year and round always travel together.
Candidates who already hold an allotment should prioritise compliance: seat acceptance status, document resolution, the applicable PAF step and institute reporting. Candidates moving to CSAB should read the CSAB rules as a separate process. A predictor does not complete any of those actions.
Use this section for manual verification after the broad predictor screen. The opening rank is the best rank at which a seat in a defined pool was allotted during that published round. The closing rank is the last rank in that same defined pool. Both values describe an allocation record, not a general quality score for the institute or branch.
JoSAA's opening and closing rank page includes notes about the rank lists used for different seat types. Those notes determine whether a number is CRL, a category rank or a PwD rank. Copying a cutoff without its note can reverse the meaning of the comparison.
A clean research row should look like this:
Only after these labels match should the candidate compare the rank with the closing value.
Cutoffs can change as candidates accept, upgrade, withdraw or move through higher preferences. The direction and size of movement differ by programme and seat pool. Popular programmes with small pools may move little. Another programme may move more. A new programme may have no stable pattern at all.
It is unsafe to say that every later round becomes easier by a fixed number or percentage. The correct method is to inspect round-wise official data for the same row and then compare several years where the row remained comparable.
The final regular JoSAA round and CSAB special rounds should not be blended. CSAB works with vacancies and its own rules. A CSAB closing rank can be informative for a candidate considering that route, but it is not evidence that the same seat was available in regular JoSAA at that rank.
Suppose a candidate's applicable rank is just inside one year's closing rank but outside the previous two years. That is not a safe seat. It is a variable historical record and belongs near the moderate or reach part of the planning set.
If the rank is comfortably inside several comparable years and the current seat matrix has not materially changed, the option has stronger historical support. Even then, the candidate should retain lower-risk choices that they would genuinely attend.
JoSAA considers choices in the order submitted and attempts to allocate the highest preference available under the rules. The order should therefore represent the candidate's real preference. It should not be sorted from safe to reach.
If a candidate prefers Programme A at Institute X over Programme B at Institute Y, Programme A should appear higher even if it is a reach. Placing a safe option first can cause that option to be allotted while a genuinely preferred option lower in the list is never considered for that allotment.
Use the initial matches to begin the review. Sign-in unlocks the complete results, comparisons, exports and a shortlist for the current session. That shortlist is a working list for the session, not a persistent saved-colleges record. After verification, order acceptable choices by preference. A practical sequence is:
Safe, moderate and reach labels help test coverage. They do not dictate preference order. A reach can sit at the top, followed by moderate and safe choices interleaved according to what the candidate actually wants.
A predictor can show eligibility history. It cannot decide whether a candidate should prefer a favoured branch at a less preferred institute or a less favoured branch at a more preferred institute.
Do not use a blanket slogan such as "college over branch" or "CSE at any cost." Read the curriculum, academic rules, institute reports and total financial commitment. A choice is sound when the candidate understands what is being accepted.
Scenario planning is useful because historical boundaries move. Start with the official rank, then test a less favourable cutoff environment. You can also test what happens when a preferred branch is removed or when only institutes within a travel constraint remain.
The point is not to generate more college names. It is to find where the plan fails before choice locking or reporting makes that failure expensive.
Freeze, Float and Slide are JoSAA willingness options used under the applicable round rules. Candidates should read the current business rules and the instructions shown in their portal before selecting one.
These definitions do not mean one option is always best. The correct choice depends on whether the candidate would prefer every choice placed above the current allotment, whether an upgrade round remains and whether the current stage permits that willingness option.
As of 18 August 2026, generic early-round advice is less useful than the candidate's actual Round 5 status. Check the portal, the official notices and any document queries. If the NIT+ PAF or physical reporting requirement applies, complete the required step according to the official instructions.
Read the choices above the current allotment again. Float is sensible only if the candidate would genuinely prefer an upgrade to those choices. Slide is sensible only if the higher programme choices at the same institute remain desirable. Freeze is a final preference decision within the applicable process, not a badge of confidence.
Keep a copy of the locked choices and the latest allotment letter. Do not rely on memory or a predictor screenshot when checking whether an upgrade is welcome.
CSAB special rounds address seats available under the CSAB process after regular JoSAA activity. They are not an extra guaranteed JoSAA round. Vacancy patterns can differ sharply by institute, programme, category and year.
Candidates considering special rounds should use the CSAB official site for registration rules, eligibility, choice filling, fee instructions, allotment results and reporting. JoSAA itself directs special-round users there.
A regular JoSAA cutoff should not be presented as a CSAB cutoff. Likewise, a favourable CSAB result from a past year does not prove that the vacancy will exist in 2026. Special-round planning needs a broader safety margin because the available inventory is determined by actual vacancies.
The answers belong to the current CSAB rules and notices. Avoid advice that quotes an old fee, deadline or penalty without the 2026 source beside it.
A prediction is useful only if the candidate remains eligible at verification and reports correctly. Document problems often arise from an expired category certificate, the wrong prescribed format, inconsistent names, unclear state-code evidence or a missed response to a query.
Use the official reporting checklist for the allotted route. The following is a preparation list, not a replacement for that checklist:
Resolve a portal query through the official channel and keep proof of submission. If an institute asks for physical reporting, read its reporting notice as well as the central schedule. The JoSAA schedule confirms the 13-18 August 2026 physical-reporting window for the specified NIT+ candidates, but each allotted institute may publish operational instructions for venue, documents and arrival.
The candidates below are synthetic. Their numbers demonstrate the comparison method and do not claim that a named institute or programme will be allotted in 2026. Replace every assumed number with the candidate's official scorecard and current official cutoff data.
Candidate A has an official CRL of 34,200, an OPEN seat profile, a Maharashtra state code of eligibility and a gender-neutral comparison. The candidate prefers electronics-related programmes but would also consider Mechanical Engineering at selected institutes.
The first filter is not percentile. Candidate A selects OPEN or General and enters CRL 34,200 as the single rank for that run. The current screen groups the matching college, course and subcategory records, then uses each historical year's most permissive available cutoff across rounds. For NIT choices, Maharashtra is treated as HS only where the current JoSAA seat matrix and state-code rules support that quota; NITs in other states use the applicable OS rows.
The result is a discovery set, not a claim about a particular round. Candidate A checks promising programmes against the exact official year, quota, gender pool and round records. A choice that remains comfortably supported after that manual check enters the lower-risk part of the list. A variable record becomes moderate, while a programme that consistently closed at a better rank remains a reach.
The final order is based on preference, not risk. A preferred ECE reach can sit above a historically safer Mechanical choice. The safer choice remains on the list because the candidate has read the curriculum and would attend if allotted.
For a tighter-cutoff scenario, Candidate A temporarily removes every borderline choice and checks whether enough acceptable options remain. If the floor disappears, the response is to research more acceptable programmes or institutes, not to relabel a reach as safe.
Candidate B has CRL 92,000 and an official OBC-NCL rank of 27,500. The state code of eligibility is Rajasthan, and the candidate is eligible for the female-only pool under the current rules. The OBC-NCL certificate is checked against the 2026 format and validity instructions before category predictions are used.
Candidate B first selects OPEN or General and enters CRL 92,000. That run screens only the selected OPEN records. Candidate B then starts a separate OBC-NCL run and enters 27,500 because the applicable JoSAA category cutoffs are category-rank based. The current predictor does not accept both ranks together or merge both result sets.
Gender-neutral and female-only records remain distinct within the applicable profile. For an NIT in Rajasthan, Candidate B checks HS records where the official matrix provides them; NITs elsewhere use the appropriate OS records. Promising options from both runs are then verified manually against exact JoSAA round data.
If the category certificate is not accepted, the reserved-seat comparison may no longer apply. The separate OPEN run shows the CRL-based screen without pretending that the certificate will fail.
Candidate C has two historically plausible options. One is a preferred computing-related programme at an institute that is farther from home and costs more to reach. The other is a core engineering programme at an institute the family already knows and can access more easily.
No cutoff table can decide between them. Candidate C reads the programme curricula, checks whether internal branch change is limited, reviews official programme-level outcomes where available and calculates the full family cost. The candidate also asks a simple question: if no upgrade occurs, would I willingly complete this programme at this institute?
After that review, the computing programme remains the first preference because the curriculum fits the candidate's goals and the cost is manageable. The core programme stays below it as an acceptable choice. If the cost review had failed, the order would change even if the first institute carried a stronger general reputation.
The worked decision records the reason beside each choice. This prevents a last-minute reorder based on a social-media list that ignores curriculum, cost and personal constraints.
Candidate D has a Round 5 NIT+ allotment and is considering CSAB. The candidate first checks the JoSAA portal, confirms whether the PAF requirement applies and reads the physical-reporting instructions. Because participation in CSAB or DASA affects the stated 13-18 August reporting route, the candidate does not follow a generic document checklist without checking current status.
Next, Candidate D reads the 2026 CSAB rules on the official site. Historical CSAB cutoffs are reviewed separately from JoSAA cutoffs, and only for the exact category, quota, gender and programme records available in that process. A past vacancy is not treated as a promised 2026 vacancy.
The candidate then compares the consequences of keeping the present allotment with the rules for entering the special rounds. No payment is made from a blog's old fee table, and no deadline is copied from a prior year. The decision rests on the official CSAB notice and the candidate's willingness to accept the submitted choices.
The current predictor is most useful as a broad discovery screen when the candidate supplies the official rank appropriate to the selected category. Separate OPEN and reserved runs keep CRL and category rank from being applied to the wrong records. Several historical yearly summaries can reveal options that deserve closer review.
The screen is deliberately broad because each yearly group uses its most permissive available cutoff across rounds. It weakens near a historical boundary, and it cannot say which exact round supports a match. It also weakens when a programme is new, the seat matrix changes, an institute changes the programme structure, or the relevant seat pool is small. CSAB is harder to project because vacancies arise from the completed allocation process rather than a fixed promise made in advance.
Safe does not mean certain. Moderate does not mean a measured 50 percent chance. Reach does not mean impossible. Unless a tool publishes a validated probability model and its calibration data, those labels should be read as relative historical positions.
The candidate can still use them well. Safe options protect the lower part of the list, moderate options form much of the realistic working set, and reach options preserve ambition at the top. The final list must contain only choices the candidate would accept.
A beautifully sorted list can be wrong if it uses an old seat matrix, merges gender pools or compares CRL with a category-rank cutoff. Conversely, a range with a clear source and exact dimensions is more useful than a single confident number with no provenance.
Check the last updated date, the counselling year and the source of the opening and closing ranks. For 2026 actions, return to JoSAA, the JoSAA schedule, CSAB and JEE Main.
The remedy is mostly careful labelling. Keep the source, year, round, rank type, quota, category, gender pool and programme attached to every cutoff you save.
A narrow JoSAA list does not end the engineering admission search. It means the candidate should widen the set of official routes while protecting deadlines and finances.
State counselling may use JEE Main, a state entrance examination or board-based eligibility, depending on the state and institute. Private and deemed universities may have their own tests or application systems. Some institutes with familiar names do not participate in JoSAA, so their admission rules must be checked on their own official websites.
Compare total cost, accreditation, curriculum, faculty access, laboratories, programme-level outcomes and refund rules. Do not rely on a broad claim that one category of college is always better. The relevant comparison is the specific programme, campus and financial commitment available to the candidate.
A repeat attempt is also a personal decision rather than a default recommendation. Consider the size of the score gap, the candidate's health, preparation conditions, family finances and willingness to spend another year. A predictor cannot assess those factors from a percentile.
Keep accepted alternatives alive until the rules require a final choice. Missing a state or institute deadline while waiting for a speculative CSAB vacancy can remove a sound option without improving the JoSAA outcome.
Enter one official rank per run and select the category that matches it. Use CRL for an OPEN or General run. Use the applicable official category rank for a reserved-category run where JoSAA publishes that cutoff on a category-rank basis. One run does not combine the two rank lists. Set the state code of eligibility and gender pool carefully, then verify promising results against exact official round records.
Build a broad set of acceptable choices, then order them by real preference. Check branch curriculum and family constraints before submission. Keep lower-risk options that you would attend, but do not move them above preferred choices merely because a tool calls them safe.
For current action, the official position on 18 August 2026 is that JoSAA Round 5 allocation has been announced, NIT+ PAF followed Round 5, and the stated physical-reporting window for NIT+ candidates not participating in CSAB or DASA is 13-18 August. Special-round candidates should use the CSAB site.
Before payment, travel, reporting or choice submission, verify the instruction on the relevant official page:
Last reviewed: 18 August 2026. Historical percentile calculations and cutoff comparisons are planning evidence, not guarantees of admission.
No account is required to run the predictor and review the initial named matches. Sign-in unlocks the complete result set, comparisons, exports and a shortlist for the current session. The shortlist is not a persistent saved-colleges library. Keep your scorecard open while entering one official rank and its matching category because a mismatch can produce a very different list.
The form accepts one rank and one category per run. Select OPEN or General and enter CRL for the OPEN screen. For a reserved-category screen, enter the applicable official category rank where JoSAA states that the cutoff is category-rank based. One run does not combine CRL-based OPEN options with reserved options. Run the two profiles separately and verify their official cutoff records.
Use percentile only for an early estimate when official ranks are unavailable. Once NTA publishes the scorecard, use the rank that matches the selected category for that run: CRL for OPEN or General, or the applicable official category rank for a category-rank cutoff. Percentile formulas cannot reproduce the final distribution, tie rules or a reliable category rank.
JoSAA uses the state code of eligibility defined in its business rules. It is commonly tied to the place of the Class 12 or equivalent qualifying examination through which the candidate became eligible. It is not simply the candidate's current residence, native place or casual domicile label. Check special cases against the current rules before selecting HS or OS.
Yes. The selected category filters the records used in the current run, and the API applies the one entered rank to those records. Use CRL for an OPEN or General run and the applicable category rank for a reserved run where JoSAA uses category rank. Gender-neutral and female-only, including supernumerary, records also remain separate and must be checked under the current rules.
JoSAA has announced Round 5 seat allocation. Its official notice places the NIT+ Partial Admission Fee process after Round 5. Physical reporting for NIT+ candidates who are not participating in CSAB or DASA runs from 13-18 August 2026. Candidates should check their portal status, the JoSAA schedule and their allotted institute's reporting instructions before acting.
JoSAA conducts the joint allocation process for its participating institutes. CSAB runs the special-round route for applicable NIT+ vacancies under separate rules, registration, choices and reporting instructions. A regular JoSAA cutoff is not a CSAB cutoff, and a vacancy from an earlier year may not recur. JoSAA directs special-round candidates to the official CSAB website.
The current predictor is a broad historical screen. It groups each college, course and subcategory, then uses the most permissive available cutoff across rounds for each historical year. It does not calculate exact round-specific probabilities. Accuracy weakens near a boundary, for new programmes, after seat-matrix changes and in CSAB. Treat safe, moderate and reach as screening labels, then verify official round records.
It is intended for the JEE Main route to participating NITs, IIEST Shibpur, IIITs and Other-GFTIs. JoSAA 2026 covers 138 institutes in total, including 23 IITs and IISc Bengaluru, but IIT prediction requires a JEE Advanced rank. A JEE Main percentile or CRL must not be used to predict IIT admission.
Use josaa.nic.in for JoSAA notices and allocation information, josaa.nic.in/schedule/ for the current schedule, csab.nic.in for special-round rules and jeemain.nta.nic.in for NTA scorecards and examination notices. Verify the live notice before paying a fee, travelling, reporting or locking choices. Predictor results and historical cutoff tables do not replace official instructions.
Freeze accepts the allotted seat without seeking a further JoSAA upgrade. Float keeps the accepted seat while allowing a higher-preference upgrade across eligible choices. Slide keeps the institute while allowing a higher-preference programme there, subject to the current rules. Availability depends on the counselling stage, so read the portal instruction before selecting an option, especially after Round 5.
Use the bands to find options for manual review, but remember that each historical year is summarised with its most permissive available cutoff across rounds. Verify exact JoSAA or CSAB records before relying on a label. Order verified choices by genuine preference, submit only programmes you would accept, and keep a lower-risk floor that still fits your branch, cost, location and family constraints.
Start with the official checklist for your route. Common records include the JEE Main scorecard and admit card, allotment letter, Class 10 and Class 12 documents, photo identity, category or PwD certificates where applicable, payment receipts and institute-specific forms. Check names, certificate format, issuing authority, validity and state-code evidence. Resolve portal queries before the stated deadline.
Opening and closing ranks can move as candidates accept, upgrade, withdraw or receive higher preferences. The current predictor does not accept a round input. For each historical year, it summarises a college, course and subcategory group with the most permissive available cutoff across rounds. Use that as a broad screen, then compare the exact year, category, quota, gender pool and round on JoSAA or CSAB.
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