
What to do after JoSAA Last Round:
If you are not satisfied with the allocated seat or you have not secured a seat in the last round of JoSAA counselling, then you have the option to go for the further round of counselling conducted by the CSAB (Central Seat Allocation Board). The CSAB counselling 2025 will be conducted in two rounds, during which students will be allocated vacant seats at NITs, IIITs, and GFTIs. Check the complete details on what to do after the JoSAA last round in the article below.
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What to do after JoSAA Last Round: CSAB Counselling
The CSAB counselling round begins after the closing of the JoSAA counselling session. The CSAB conducts the counselling for the vacant seats in the NIT, IIIT, and GFTIs. The CSAB counselling is conducted in two main schemes: i) CSAB special round (for admission to the leftover seats) and CSAB (Supernumerary Quota (for economically weaker sections, etc.). To participate in the CSAB counselling round, students will have to register for the CSAB counselling at the official website.
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What to do after JoSAA Last Round: Private/Deemed Universities
If you do not secure a seat in the CSAB counselling and you want to make a career in engineering, then you can go for admission to the private universities like BITS Pilani, VIT, SRM, etc.
Improvement & Next Year’s Preparation
If you are a fresher and have applied for the first time for JEE Mains and Advanced, then you can take a drop year to get into a good college to pursue engineering. However, you will have to consider all the factors for not getting admission, like your strategy, level of preparation, et, to qualify for the exam and get a good college and branch for engineering.
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Alternative Career after JoSAA Last Round
If you have not secured a seat in engineering colleges after the last round of JoSAA and CSAB counselling, then you can consider choosing alternative career options, like pursuing fields like BSc, BCA, Commerce, or Vocational courses or getting into foreign universities.
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FAQs
A score of 70 marks in the JEE Advanced 2025 exam generally corresponds to an All India Rank (AIR) between 18,000 and 19,000.
Candidates must satisfy at least one of the following two criteria: Must have qualified and secured at least 75% aggregate marks in the Class XII (or equivalent) Board examination and the aggregate marks for the SC, ST and PwD candidates should be at least 65%.
JoSAA is in charge of releasing the seat matrix for the participating colleges on its official website i.e., josaa.nic.in. This JoSSA matrix displays the available seats for each B. Tech course across the NITs, GFTIs, IIITs and IITs. Admission into these institutes is determined by the JEE Main 2025 entrance exam scores.
The partial JoSAA admission fee 2025 is set at INR 20,000 for the SC/ST category students and Rs 40,000 for the General, OBC, and EWS category students.
In the JoSAA choice filling process 2025, candidates are allowed to enter and arrange their choices of institutes and colleges according to their wish to be admitted to. Candidates are suggested to fill as many choices as possible in order of their preference to increase their chances of seat allotment in JoSAA 2025.
If one does not lock their choices, the last saved choices will be locked automatically upon reaching the deadline for the JoSAA choice filling. The automatically locked choice list will be considered for allocating a seat during the JoSAA counselling process.
The JEE Main exam rank required for securing admission into an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) depends upon the institute, course, and the category of the candidate. The higher the JEE Main rank, the greater the chance of securing admission into the IITs.
Yes. JoSAA manages the admissions process for providing admissions across the Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs), National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), and the Government Funded Technical Institutes (GFTIs).
The cutoff for the JEE Advanced 2025 exam depends on the category of the candidate and the institute, but the minimum qualifying marks in JEE Advanced 2025 are 35% for the general category, 31.5% for the OBC-NCL/EWS category, and 17.5% for the SC/ST/PwD candidates.
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