My son is 17 years old and his height is still 5 ft 5 inces. How can he increase his height. He does exercise regularly but not growing. What can he do

Ans: Ashok Sir, At CRL 6,821 with Punjab home state, your son has an excellent chance at NIT Jalandhar, including CSE. Best preference order is: NIT Jalandhar CSE → Data Science/IT-type branches → ECE/VLSI → EE. For a better national brand, also try ECE/EE/MnC-related branches in NIT Jaipur, Kurukshetra, Delhi, Bhopal, Surat, Durgapur, Allahabad/Prayagraj, and CSE in mid/lower NITs. Top NIT CSE like Trichy, Warangal, Surathkal may be difficult.

Your son can have the following backups too: IIIT Allahabad/Delhi/Lucknow/Gwalior/Sri City as per rank fit, and keep CSAB Special Rounds open. All the BEST for Your Son's Prosperous Future!

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Ans: For JEE Main Paper 2 B.Arch, admission depends mainly on Paper 2 rank / OBC-NCL category rank, not percentile alone. With 95.19 percentile + OBC-NCL, your son has a reasonable chance for B.Arch counselling, but top options like SPA Delhi, NIT Trichy and NIT Calicut may be difficult unless his category rank is very strong. Realistic targets to check in JoSAA are NIT Patna, NIT Raipur, NIT Hamirpur, NIT Bhopal/MANIT planning-related options, NIT Rourkela, NIT Jaipur/MNIT, NIT Nagpur/VNIT, depending on yearly cutoffs. JoSAA’s official archive should be used during choice filling. It is advisable to have the following backup options: NATA-based B.Arch colleges, state architecture counselling, SPA Vijayawada/Bhopal, and reputed private architecture colleges. All the BEST for Your Son's Prosperous Future!

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Ans: For General/Open category, CSE/IT/AI/DS in NITs and established IIITs is difficult in regular JoSAA. Still, you should fill choices for newer/lower NITs and GFTIs. Possible chances may be in non-CSE branches at NITs like Mizoram, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Manipur, Meghalaya, Puducherry. For CSE-related branches, your better chance may be through CSAB Special Rounds, where vacant seats are allotted separately after JoSAA. It is better to have 4-5 reputed private engineering colleges also in and around your State as backups. All the BEST for Your Prosperous Future!

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Ans: Based on your score, Chemical Engineering in NIT Jalandhar is unlikely in regular JoSAA. Better government college options are: CSAB Special Rounds for vacant seats, but keep expectations realistic. In Punjab, SLIET Longowal is worth checking. Its 2024 Chemical Engineering Open closing rank was around 92,779, still below 1.6 lakh, while Food Technology closed around 1,10,525. So, your safer plan should include state counselling/PTU-affiliated government or semi-government colleges, Punjabi University/IKGPTU-affiliated engineering colleges, and branches like Food Technology, Civil, Mechanical, Production, Biotechnology. Backup: apply to Chandigarh University, Chitkara, LPU, Thapar spot/later rounds, Amity Punjab, or choose Chemical in a decent private college. All the BEST for Your Prosperous Future!

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Ans: At CRL 110117, General category, getting CSE/IT/AI/DS in NITs or IIITs through regular JoSAA is very unlikely. For CSE-related branches, chances may exist mainly in GFTIs or CSAB Special Rounds, depending on vacant seats. Check options like Assam University Silchar, Mizoram University, Gurukula Kangri, BIT Patna/Deoghar/Jaipur, Central University of Haryana/Rajasthan/Jharkhand for CSE/IT/ECE/AI-type branches. It is advisable to have 4-5 reputed private engineering colleges as backups in and around Delhi instead of relying only on JoSAA/CSAB. All the BEST for Your Son's Prosperous Future!

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Ans: You have not mentioned your son's home state. At JEE Main CRL 7,813, your son has very good NIT chances. For CSE, top NITs like Trichy, Warangal, Surathkal, Rourkela, Allahabad and Calicut may be difficult unless there is home-state benefit. But he can target CSE/AI/IT in NITs such as Jalandhar, Bhopal, Durgapur, Kurukshetra, Jamshedpur, Silchar, Hamirpur, Patna, Goa, Raipur and Delhi, depending on category, gender and home-state quota.

For a stronger college tag, also consider ECE/EE/Mathematics & Computing/Data Science in better NITs like MNIT Jaipur, SVNIT Surat, NIT Bhopal, NIT Kurukshetra, NIT Durgapur, NIT Jalandhar. Have CSAB also as a bckup. All the BEST for Your Son's Prosperous Future!

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Ans: Mohan, please ask your question in English as your question is not clear.

Ans: Gori Madam, admission to CSE at NITs, top IIITs, or GFTIs through JoSAA is highly unlikely because CSE closing ranks in even lower?tier NITs/IIITs usually stay well within 1–2 lakh. However, your daughter can still target good government?backed CSE?like options through state?level or Haryana quotas, such as state engineering colleges in Haryana and Delhi that accept JEE Main scores and often have lower cutoffs for CSE, IT, or CS?related branches under HS/OS quotas. It is advisable to have 4-5 reputed private engineering colleges as backups in and around Delhi instead of relying only on JoSAA/CSAB. All the BEST for Your Daughter's Prosperous Future!

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Ans: Yash, YMCA is a good university by most professional and academic benchmarks. It is a UGC?recognized, NAAC?accredited “A+ grade” university with strong infrastructure, experienced faculty, and solid industry?linked placements, especially in core BTech branches like CE, IT, CSE?related disciplines and some M.Tech programmes. Placement?wise, it regularly reports 80–90% BTech?level placement rates and average packages around 6–7 LPA, with top offers crossing 40+ LPA in recent years. For a student aiming at a reputable, placements?focused engineering college in NCR, it is generally considered a good choice, though branch and campus?fit matter. All the BEST for Your Prosperous Future!

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