For admission to PEC Chandigarh, you need to clear JEE Main and your intermediate exams result will also be taken into consideration. The weightage of JEE and 10+2 is 60% and 40% respectively.

Now, to answer your question, PEC Chandigarh has 4 categories - General, SC, ST, and General PwD. There is no specific OBC category present when cut-offs are considered.

The OBC candidates are allotted seats from the General category. Furthermore, candidates from Defence parents, Kashmiris, etc. will also get some preferences. It is best to contact the college for further accurate information.

Below are the procedures to get admission in undergraduate courses at PEC Chandigarh. 

1. You will have to score at least 75% in your board exam, it is the basic criteria to appear in JEE Main.
2. Appear and secure a good score in JEE Main. You will get three consecutive attempts for JEE Main. Admission at PEC is purely based on JEE Main score. You can check the recent cutoff for PEC on the official website to get an idea of what to expect.
3. All the qualified candidates have to participate in the counseling process and they are allotted seats as per the rank secured in JEE Main and choices elected by them.
4. If you are applying for admission one year after your 10+2, you will need to produce a gap year certificate during counseling.

So, these are some eligibility criteria for you to keep a note of.

Yes, there is news about the addition of 175 seats in PEC Chandigarh and many are thinking that the cut-off marks will decrease as a result. With the increase in numbers of seats, the cut-offs are supposed to go down but it might not decrease for popular branches like CSE, ECE, Mechanical. There might be a difference of a few marks for some of the courses, but other than this everything is likely to remain the same.

The table below shows the required cutoff for PEC Chandigarh in recent years.

Hope this gives you an idea about the cutoff required for PEC Chandigarh.

You have a chance of getting into PEC with AIR 70000 on the board and Chandigarh quota, but branch preference can be an issue. Production and Metallurgy are the branches you are qualified for. You can wait until the spot round as this rank might put you in this branch.

2020 Cut-offs :

If you are from the general category, then it might be a problem. But if you have some other quota also, then it will improve your chances. You can get admission as far as just admission is concerned.

The cutoffs are released after the spot round. So, it’s difficult to say what is the required cutoff for Electrical branch in the spot round at PEC Chandigarh. 

But assuming that you are from the open/general category, these are the starting cut-off ranks for recent years.

Since the number of seats in PEC is the same as last year (no increase or decrease) you can expect fairly the same ranks this year too. So, work hard and make sure you get in the rank range.

For admission in PEC, you at least need to have 75% in your intermediate exams and cleared the JEE Main cut-off for the institute.

The following table shows the JEE Main Round 1 cut-offs for PEC in 2020: 

*Here, 'other state' is OS, and 'home state' is HS.

Seeing the cut-off rank, you might not get PEC Chandigarh at your mentioned profile.

• With 92.8% in 10+2, you have cleared one basic eligibility for the institute.
• Another eligibility is clearing JEE Mains cut-off for PEC. At the mentioned score of 116 in JEE Main, your rank will be approximately around 55000. This rank cannot get a seat in any of the 6 rounds.

If you are desperate to join this year, then you can search for CSE/ECE branch other institutes, as per your JEE rank. But, if you can have time in your hands, you can give another attempt in JEE Mains.