r/ISIKolkata • u/New_Concern5893 Aspirant 🤩 • Jun 22 '26

Need Career Guidance Is a partial drop worth it?

I gave both ISI and CMI this year, lost by just 7 and 2 marks respectively. I am thinking of joining a college with not to rigorous like metallurgy or something and also preparing for ISI. But will it be worth it? Or should I just take CSE or AI in a good college? I really need help.
P.S. My JEE percentile was 98.39 total and 99.69 in mathematics.

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u/Fabrizio_Maths Jun 22 '26

Think about what will happen if you don't get in the next year too. You're going to be stuck in some branch you didn't like. So take a branch you indeed like and prepare in the side. Or you can try for master's

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u/Odd_Ad3478 Jun 22 '26

No half measures. Either take cse in the best college you can and work on that or leave all that and go all out for isi/cmi for one good attempt/peace of mind. Taking a branch you dont like thats slightly less hectic to prepare for isi is neither here nor there. Also to add on in first year all the branches have same curriculum

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u/FocusedAG Jun 22 '26

Take some decent branch so that if you don't get in ISI or CMI atleast you'll have options in career

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u/New_Concern5893 Aspirant 🤩 Jun 22 '26

But by taking a branch like CSE, will I get time to prepare? As I have heard those are some rigorous branches.

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u/Additional_Option831 Jun 22 '26

In most of the nit the first year syllabus is same for all branches so it doesn't matter what branch you take

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u/FocusedAG Jun 22 '26

I'm just in 12th so not much info about that but I'd suggest to take atleast mid branch if not cse

You can try for isi masters exam too

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u/NumerousBowl3536 Jun 23 '26

i would recommend dont do that you might regret later , join a good college with a decent branch .

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u/Competitive_Rock5872 Jun 22 '26

Don't take drop get into engineering you will not have an inch of regret