You can get admission in NITs with 96+ percentile, but if you want branches like CSE, IT, ECE you need to have 98.5+ percentile. Also it might be different for your home state. In northeast states even with 90 percentile students get admission.

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Hello,

Cutoff vary every year for various NIT based on various factors but a general analysis will tell you that the minimum percentile to secure seats in NIT for a general category student would be around 95-96% percentile.
But if you want to secure top NITs you should be aiming not any less than 98-99%. You can check the cutoff for various NITs here
https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff-for-top-nits

Hope this helps

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