IMPACT OF MCC COUNSELLING ON IAT COUNSELLING (BUFFY DUCKY SAYS)
Although this isn't verified and is only my speculation- I feel the movement of the cutoff is constricted because MCC has announced round 1 of the counselling and many students won't get a seat there leading them to occupy the seat here in this counselling.
Although another reason being that - IISERs and research aren't gatekept anymore- i have seen many people in the recent days showing interest in research- Moreover people do slowly discover their area of interest during this phase- which is leading to THEM GOING FOR IISERs - this partly explains the reason why the seat occupancy and ranks are suffocated in the 2000-3500 range - people below this rank ( <2000) have done well in NEET and JEE mostly too. People in this range consists of three types of people - people who decided on research beforehand, people deciding to go for it now, and people thinking of partial drops.
My well wishes to first two types of people since they have decided or are still deciding and have a good chance to do good in research however for the last type i wanna say - Please reconsider and re-evaluate your choices since partial drops are never meant to work out in the end at IISERs and your decision might affect an honestly interested one. No hate to anyone and wont encourage anyone spreading hate too
PEACE.