Any Board is suitable to pursue JEE / NEET studies. But the past 21 years of our analysis of aspirants in Pune reveals that most successful students had chosen State Boards in XI and XII though their education may have been from a different Board till Std.10. The XII Boards eligibility criterion is also lower for IIT, NIT IIIT, GFTI seats with 67-70% usually sufficient as compared to CBSE / ISC which needs 75% only. The fees of CBSE/ISC colleges is also higher as compared to State Boards colleges.