{"id":"community/journey-cutoffs","kind":"community","v":1,"title":"Step 3: Scores, cutoffs & chances","line":"Results are out — now, realistically, what can you get?","aliases":[],"tags":["topic:journey"],"facts":[{"label":"Essential","value":"No one can promise which college a score gets. The honest answer is a range from previous-year cutoffs, and even that shifts yearly — stop chasing exact predictions.","trust":"community","source":0},{"label":"Essential","value":"Category changes everything. UR / OBC / EWS / PWD / quota all have different cutoffs — always read the one for your category, not the general list.","trust":"community","source":0},{"label":"Essential","value":"There's usually a floor. Many courses only “start” above a threshold (government NEET seats sit well above the pass mark) — know the realistic entry bar.","trust":"community","source":0},{"label":"Essential","value":"Later rounds and quotas are real backups. A middling score isn't the end of the road; spot rounds and upgrades exist.","trust":"community","source":0}],"data":{"step":3,"id":"cutoffs","name":"Scores, cutoffs & chances","oneLiner":"Results are out — now, realistically, what can you get?","essentials":["No one can promise which college a score gets. The honest answer is a range from previous-year cutoffs, and even that shifts yearly — stop chasing exact predictions.","Category changes everything. UR / OBC / EWS / PWD / quota all have different cutoffs — always read the one for your category, not the general list.","There's usually a floor. Many courses only “start” above a threshold (government NEET seats sit well above the pass mark) — know the realistic entry bar.","Later rounds and quotas are real backups. A middling score isn't the end of the road; spot rounds and upgrades exist."]},"links":[],"sources":[{"label":"Campus Binge journey essentials (written from the student-voices corpus)","asOf":"2026-07-23","trust":"community","method":"derived"}],"trust":"community","origin":"dataset","asOf":"2026-07-23","digest":"sha256:da3bb70221746eb14db5d3844de474d940b00dae6c2ffc8eb576e80bb2915918"}