According to the previous year trends, 160 marks is generally equivalent to a rank around 15k-20k / 98 percentile in Jee Mains. But this is a rough estimate, marks vs rank vary highly every year depending upon various factors. You have very less chances in top NITs , but you can  get NITs like Sikkim, Srinagar, Manipur, mizoram and IIITs like Surat,sonepat Bhopal,TRICHY,kottyam. Choose according to your preferred branch.
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Hi

With 160 marks

• Your percentile  will be around 98.0 - 99.06  and if we go with 98 percentile then your rank will be around 20460 - 23000  as per our rank predictor at

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I am assuming you from general category

With your rank , you have chances in following  which are listed below along with their closing rank in 6th round of josaa counselling 2020 under other state -

--------) Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal, Mechanical engineering :-23421

---------) National Institute of Technology Jaipur, chemical engineering:-24475

----------) National Institute of Technology Agartala, ECE :-24809

---------) Nit durgapur, mechanical engineering :- 25161

---------) National Institute of Technology Sikkim:- computer science:-26007

---------) National Institute of Technology Calicut, civil engineering:-26286

And a few more

You can check the closing ranks  at official website of josaa by going through the link given below

https://josaa.nic.in/Result/Result/currentorcr.aspx

Or

For previous year cut offs of top colleges like NITs, IIITs , you can also refer our page at :-

NITs :- https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/nits-cutoff-for-top-btech-branches

IIITs:- https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff-for-top-iiits

Above prediction has been made  considering  past year cut off data but  closing rank for colleges varies every year depending upon many factors like jee main question paper difficulty, number of students writing the exam etc so

To have a personalised report on your chances of getting a college you can go through our college predictor, it will give you complete list of colleges which you can get on the basis of the category you belong to,  your home state, your gender etc, the link for  jee main college predictor is provided below

https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer

To help you further,

To give you an idea of qualifying cut off, JEE mains 2020  qualifying  CUT OFF percentile to be eligible for jee advanced is given below for different category

>>>> General :-     90.3765335

>>>> GEN-EWS :-  70.2435518

>>>> OBC-NCL :-  72.8887969

>>>> SC     :-           50.1760245

>>>> ST :-                39.0696101

>>>> PwD :-            0.0618524

You can check the same at our page the link is provided below

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff

Thankyou

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