Hi Manjusha,

The exam is for 230 marks and consists of 5 sections. The exam has a negative marking of -1. A score of 150+ is considered a good and decent score and safe. You can always hope and aim for a score above 180 to be safe and confident. 

All The Best

Hello dear..

Well, if you are a general category student, then you need to score a bit more than a reserved category student.

Although the qualifying marks depends on various factors like no. of students, difficulty level of questions, seats available etc., on an average, we can say, that for a general candidate, if you score more than 60%, then you are on safer side, score between 50–60%, you still have good chances that you will be selected, while score less than 50%, then danger zone, but in 2nd and 3rd round of counselling, you have some chances.

Please note that these figures mostly depends on the difficulty level, so if, for you, the questions are harder than previous year, don’t worry, it will be harder for every Indian giving that same exam at that moment.

Best of luck..

Dear Akay,

Difficulty level changes every year, so on an average you need to score atleast 60 - 65 % to get seat.

Hope this helps!!

Thanks for the question -

Category

Qualifying Cut Off Score

General

90

You can get sample papers from the below link-

https://www.google.co.in/amp/s/admission.aglasem.com/nest-previous-year-question-papers/amp/

Scheduled Caste (SC)

50

Scheduled Tribe (ST)

50

PD (part of other categories)

50

Hello Swarag,

    Let me Provide you with ome of the required info about cut offs.

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

Kindly go through this info.

Keep going.

//// All The Best ////

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.

//// All The Best ////

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.

//// All The Best ////

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