Hello Sankruti,

     Good to hear from you.Here is the info regarding the cut offs and number of seats available in the past.

Here, candidates can check previous year qualifying cut off score according to the categories:

The categorizations of seats at the NISER & CBS Institutions for admission (last year):

Kindly go through this info.This might help you.

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I think definitely you will get NISER as you want because for first counseling cut off rank for OBC is 400 and you have got 202.official website link for registration  is open for 28 june2018.

Hello Mamta,

Here, candidates can check previous year qualifying cut off score according to the categories:

I hope this information would help you.

Keep going.

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Dear Abhijeet,

This is how you find out the cut-off for OBC in NEST. Your total score will be the direct sum of your score in the general section and your best three scores in the subject sections.

For each section, “20% of the average of the best 100 scores in that section” will be considered as Section–wise Minimum Admissible Score (SMAS). For example, if the average of the best 100 scores in Chemistry section is 40 out of 50, then SMAS for chemistry section would be 40*0.20 = 8 marks. This applies to other sections as well.

SMAS for OBC students would be 90% of respective SMAS for general category students. For example, if in the chemistry section the SMAS is 8 for general category students, then SMAS for OBC students would be 7 (90% of 8, rounded off).

Generally the cut off for OBC category in NEST is around 60.

Thank you and best of luck.

Hey 

It all depends on the cut off every year .

I can't tell you the minimum marks unless the cut off is out .

Thanks

Hello 

Dont be soo tensed about exams relax and write your exam well , try to give your best in the exams and it can only happen when you are not tensed so be calm and i have attached a written the the cut offs of previous year according to the category, All the best for your exams write well. 

General 90

SC 50

ST 50

PD (Part of other Categories) 90 

And the seat matrix 

General: 83

Supernumerary: JandK 2 

OBC: 46

SC: 26

ST: 13

PD: 5 

Total: 172

Hii sandipan,

Every year nearly 150-200 students are selected in admission to niiser. You can be sure of your admission if your rank is under 150. However number of selected students vary each year.

Good luck...

hi sajanram,

The National Entrance Screening Test (popularly known as NEST ) is an annual college entrance examination in India , conducted for admission into the National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar and the Center for Excellence in Basic Sciences (UM-DAE CEBS), Mumbai . These two institutes use NEST as a sole criterion for admission to their undergraduate programs. Also, the Integrated Science Education & Research Centre (ISERC) of Visva Bharati University has been using the merit list of NEST for admission into its undergraduate program for the last 3 academic sessions. NEST was conducted in 45 centers across India in 2014.

Hi, This is extremely difficult to predict as it depends upon the number of applicants and the difficulty levels of the question paper. The ranking methodology is pretty complicated.  It is somewhat like this

Total score of each candidate will be the direct sum of the score obtained in the general section and his/her best three scores in the subject sections. Every candidates has to score above Section–wise Minimum Admissible Score (SMAS) which is 20% of the average of the best 100 scores in that section. In addition each candidate must score equal to or more than respective SMAS in the General section as well as in at least three subject sections which will be counted for merit list calculation. The best three subject scores will be taken into account for a candidate who secures SMAS in all four subject sections. Plus to get a merit rank, every candidate must score equal to or above a total Minimum Admissible Score (MAS) in addition to fulfilling SMAS conditions. For NEST, 2017 it was 90 marks. So if you score less than 90, you will not be allotted any merit rank. For SC/ST/Pwd the MAS is 50% while for general /OBC it is 90%.

So to have a chance at a seat, past data suggests you need more than 100 marks. As to how to prepare for the exam:

Check here https://www.nestexam.in. Check the syllabus first. Then check the past question papers given here. The weightage of topics will be known if you analyse the papers properly. You could then segregate the topics into easy, difficult and to learn. Revise the easy one with one difficult and one to be learnt topics so that you complete. solve those question papers and you should perform well. All the best!