JEE Mains College Predictor for NRI & DASA Students 2026

If you are an NRI, PIO, OCI, or CIWG (Children of Indian Workers in Gulf countries) student planning to use your JEE Main score for admission into an Indian NIT, IIIT, or GFTI, you do not go through the regular JoSAA counselling that domestic JEE Main candidates use. Instead, admission happens through DASA (Direct Admission of Students Abroad), a separate scheme run by the Ministry of Education (NIT Trichy acts as the coordinating institute).

Because DASA uses a different merit calculation (normalized JEE Main/qualifying exam marks, not the JoSAA CRL rank) and a separate, much smaller supernumerary seat pool, the regular JEE Mains college predictor on this site — which is built on JoSAA CRL cutoff data — will not give you an accurate picture. You need the dedicated DASA predictor instead.

Use our dedicated DASA JEE Main College Predictor to get predictions specific to the NRI/PIO/OCI/CIWG quota. It is built on DASA-specific historical cutoff data across the 24 participating NITs, IIITs, and GFTIs — not the JoSAA domestic cutoffs.

Before using the predictor, confirm your eligibility category (NRI / PIO / OCI / CIWG), since each sub-category can have a slightly different applicant pool and seat allocation. CIWG candidates in particular have a reserved sub-quota that is evaluated separately from general DASA applicants.

Keep in mind that DASA seat counts per branch are small (often single digits per institute-program), so year-to-year cutoff swings can be larger than in JoSAA. Treat any prediction as a planning estimate, and verify current seat matrix and eligibility details on the official DASA portal (dasanit.org) before finalizing your choices.