College Predictor for JEE Main, NEET UG and TNEA Ranks

Choice filling is the point where a rank has to become a list of colleges, and most candidates start with no idea whether 24,500 in JEE Main puts a top NIT in reach or rules it out. This predictor gives a first orientation. Pick the exam, type your rank (or your cut-off for TNEA) and your category, and it sorts a short list of institute tiers into Likely, Borderline and Unlikely.

It covers three counselling systems. JEE Main through JoSAA and CSAB, NEET UG through MCC and state counselling, and TNEA for engineering in Tamil Nadu. Each exam has its own set of tiers, from the most competitive to the widest, and each tier carries one approximate closing figure that the tool compares against your input.

The tiers are broad on purpose. This is a tool for deciding which parts of the seat matrix deserve your attention before you open the official closing-rank tables, and it should never replace those tables.

1. Choose the exam from the dropdown. The input label changes to CRL, NEET AIR or TNEA cut-off accordingly.
2. Enter your JEE Main Common Rank List rank, your NEET All India Rank, or your TNEA cut-off out of 200 to two decimals.
3. Select your category. For TNEA the selector is disabled because that counselling uses community-wise merit lists instead of rank multipliers.
4. Read the summary line, which counts the tiers comfortably in reach, then scan the tier rows and their Likely, Borderline or Unlikely tags.
5. Note the closes near figure on each row and verify it on the counselling portal named under the result before you fill choices.

The tool does not connect to JoSAA, MCC or TNEA and loads no official closing ranks. It holds a fixed editorial table of institute tiers, each with one approximate general-category closing figure set from previous years' published counselling trends. JEE Main has eight tiers running from top NIT core branches at about 3,000 to private and state colleges at about 6,00,000. NEET UG has six, from top government medical colleges at about 1,200 to BDS and AYUSH at about 5,00,000. TNEA has six, from CSE at the Anna University campuses at a cut-off near 196 down to self-financing colleges near 110.

For JEE Main and NEET, the general closing figure is multiplied by a category factor to widen the band. General is 1, EWS 1.4, OBC-NCL 1.8, SC 6 and ST 12. The result is rounded and becomes the threshold shown as closes near. A rank at or under the threshold is Likely. A rank within 20 percent above it is Borderline. Anything beyond that is Unlikely.

TNEA works on the cut-off itself, with no category factor. A cut-off at or above the tier figure is Likely, a cut-off within 3 marks below it is Borderline, and lower cut-offs are Unlikely.

• JEE Main input: CRL from the scorecard, any whole number above 0
• NEET input: All India Rank from the scorecard
• TNEA input: cut-off out of 200, accepted from 0.01 to 200
• Category: General, EWS, OBC-NCL, SC or ST, applied to JEE Main and NEET only

Hypothetical: an OBC-NCL candidate with JEE Main CRL 24,500. The OBC factor is 1.8, so each tier's general figure is multiplied by 1.8 to get its threshold, and Borderline reaches up to 1.2 times that.

Top NIT core branches close near 3,000 times 1.8, which is 5,400. The borderline ceiling is 6,480, and 24,500 is beyond it, so the tag is Unlikely. Top NIT other branches close near 12,000 times 1.8, which is 21,600, with a borderline ceiling of 25,920. 24,500 is above 21,600 and under 25,920, so Borderline. Top IIIT closes near 15,000 times 1.8, which is 27,000, and 24,500 is under that, so Likely. Every lower tier is Likely as well. The summary reads 6 institute tiers are comfortably in reach at this rank.

Likely means your rank is at or better than the tier's approximate closing figure for your category, so some institute in that tier allotted a seat at a rank like yours in the past. It does not name a college or branch, and it does not guarantee a seat in any round.

Borderline means you are up to 20 percent beyond the figure (or within 3 cut-off marks for TNEA). Tiers like this belong on your list, placed below your Likely options, because closing ranks of this size routinely move between years and between rounds.

Unlikely means the gap is larger than that, so do not plan around those tiers. Fill the choice list in strict order of preference regardless of the tags, since a lower-preferred option placed above a higher one will be allotted first if it comes up.

The tier figures are editorial approximations, refreshed by hand, and the rounds, quotas and seat matrix they summarise change every year. A single number for top NIT core branches hides the gap between campuses, and one NEET state-quota tier cannot reflect the differences between states.

Category factors are rough multipliers, not category merit lists. Reserved-category closing ranks come from separate lists, and the real spread for your category, state and quota can be well outside the 1.4, 1.8, 6 or 12 used here. Home-state quota, female-only pools, PwD and defence quotas are not modelled at all, and neither are TNEA community-wise lists.

The tool runs entirely in your browser from its built-in table, so it is never more current than the last editorial update.

Before locking any choice, open josaa.nic.in, mcc.nic.in or tneaonline.org and read the previous rounds' closing figures for the exact institute, branch, category and quota.