Hi Amith,

With 162 marks and OBC category, your probable rank will be 13,257 - 14,857 and your probable category rank range will be 2862 - 3162. your probable percentile will be 97.8 to 99.8.

If you are having home state quota than you will easily get admission in core branches.

If you don't have home state quota than also you have a good chance to get into core branches. 

For all the cutoff for NIT Puducherry, you may want to visit - https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff-for-nit-puducherry

I would also like to suggest you that don't take any branch because of the popularity of college. Read about the branches and take the one which interests you the most. 

Hope it was useful to you and your query was resolved.

Feel free to contact us for any queries.

All the best :)

Sorry to say but with this score you can't get nit Pondicherry   . But you can get other nits  . Your possible colleges are listed below .

• Nit Patna
• Nit meghalya
• Nit arunachal

You can also check your possible college as per your score in careers360 college predictor section for jee main  .