JEE & JoSAA guides

Plain-English help for JEE counselling and choosing your college.

JEE Main vs JEE Advanced: Which Rank Gets You Where?

A simple, plain-English explanation of how your JEE Main and JEE Advanced ranks map to different colleges.

Choice-filling decides your seat. Here is how to order your choices so you never lose a better option.

Computer Science is the most competitive branch at the IITs. Here is roughly what it takes.

A good branch at a top NIT often beats a weaker branch at a lower IIT. Here is how to think about it.

Curious what rank your JEE Main marks will fetch? Here is an approximate marks → percentile → rank chart, plus how to turn it into a college list.

A plain-English look at what four years of B.Tech actually costs at IITs and NITs — and the waivers that cut it sharply.

IITs and NITs add extra seats reserved for female candidates. Here is how the girls quota actually works.

There is no single cutoff for "an NIT" — it depends on branch, your home state and category. Here is how it works.

Reserved-category students have two ranks. Here is which one is used where — and why reserved cutoffs look so different.