Hi

Which category do you belong to?

It is very difficult to predict whether you will be able to qualify NTSE stage 1 examination or not as qualifying cut off marks or not as cut off marks depends upon a number of factors like

*  number of students that appeared in the ntse exam,

*kind of marks obtained by them in ntse examination,

*toughness level of the ntse examination and several other factors.

But yes,
When we go through previous year trends then,
The ntse  MP 2021 stage 1 expected  cut off to be eligible for NTSE stage 2 is given below category wise:-

*   General: - 175  -  185 Marks

*   EWS: -  80  -  100 Marks

*   OBC : - 162  -  178 Marks

*   Scheduled Caste: - 152  -  162 Marks

*   Scheduled Tribe: -  130  -  140 Marks

You can check the same at

https://school.careers360.com/articles/ntse-madhya-pradesh-cutoff

From above, you can observe that with 173 marks you hold   a very good chance to qualify NTSE stage 1 If you belong to obc/sc or st  / ews category , expected cutoff for general is 175  -  185 Marks so with 173 marks you should be optimistic even if you belong to general category

Thank you