now that seat has increased to 10000 this year , will the cut off be 175, and will a student who scored 160 be able to get in IIT

Hi Beena ,

It depends on what rank you attain in JEE . cutoffs wud surely be lower then last year as the intake has gone high but we can not surely say weather or not a student with 160 marks will get IIT .

you can check out below links for more information 

http://www.askiitians.com/IIT-JEE-2010-Cut-Offs.aspx

Click the link below link for opening and closing rank of IIT :

http://www.askiitians.com/iits-2009-2010-opening-and-closing-rank.aspx

Cutoff in new IITs  check the link give below :

http://jee.iitd.ac.in/openclose09.htm

All the Best !!

AskIITians Expert 

Anshul