JEE Main College Predictor

Closing ranks shown are official JoSAA 2025 final-round numbers — the loosest cutoffs of that year. Treat them as a floor: real cutoffs vary ±10–20% year to year with paper difficulty and preference trends. That's why this tool adds Safe / Target / Ambitious bands instead of a single hard cutoff. Use it to plan your choice list, not as a guarantee.

Safe — closed comfortably above your rank; a cushion even if cutoffs tighten. Target — right at your level; your realistic core choices. Ambitious — closed just above your rank in 2025, so a genuine reach. The Optimism slider widens or narrows how far the Ambitious band reaches.

You fill your ordered preference list once, then JoSAA runs 5–6 allotment rounds. Between rounds, seats vacate as students withdraw or upgrade, so closing ranks drift looser each round — a college just out of reach in Round 1 can come down to you by Round 4–5. Crucially, listing an ambitious choice higher never costs you a safer one below it: you only ever get the best seat you actually qualify for. So put reach picks at the top and choose Float to keep upgrading. The only way to lose a dream seat is to not list it.

In 2024, approximately 285–310 marks resulted in 99+ percentile depending on the session. Higher-difficulty sessions have lower cut-offs for the same percentile.