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title: How to recruit based on IIT JEE Rank vs GPA
date: "2024-10-24T02:21:24Z"
lastmod: "2024-10-24T02:21:26Z"
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wp_id: 3673
description: "GPA appears more useful than JEE rank for broad recruiting because top entrance ranks predict a floor but not a ceiling, while strong GPAs appear across the rank spectrum."
keywords: [recruiting, JEE rank, GPA, IIT, selection criteria, education analytics]
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![How to recruit based on IIT JEE Rank vs GPA](/blog/assets/iit-jee-rank-vs-gpa.webp)

![](/blog/assets/iit-jee-rank-vs-gpa-1024x662.webp)

[Preserving this post](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dan7geo_does-your-college-entrance-exam-rank-determine-activity-7254660050240090112--P3y?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop) by Daniel George showing the IIT Bombay 2014 GPA vs JEE Rank on a log scale.

What I found interesting was:

- A higher JEE rank generally means you won't score too low, but you needn't score too high.
- The higher the JEE rank, the greater the spread of GPA.
- A high GPA can come from any rank (8+ GPA is uniformly distributed across ranks), but a low GPA is generally only from the lower rankers (6- GPA is mostly from 500+ rank.)

So, it's better to recruit based on GPA rather than JEE rank, unless you're going after the very best students (where it makes less difference.)