Hello Aspirant,

Your NTA score simply means your percentile in the mains examination.

So if your NTA score is 42, your percentile is 42 ie. Your performance is better than 42% students giving examination.

You can use careers360 rank predictor to predict your rank.

Hope this helps!!

NTA score is calculated on a relative basis. It depends on factors like no. of students, performance of the students, etc.

Based on previous year cutoffs, a score of 42 means your son's rank will be around 6lakhs. Here's the list for your reference.

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-marks-vs-percentile

Assuming you are from general category, with this score, the chances of your son getting a decent college are low. You may apply for private colleges like Amity university. Here's the predictor tool you may use to check more options.

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

Hi

42  NTA score means

• Your percentile is 42

This is because,

NTA score is nothing but your percentile

Your percentile tells you your position among those who have appeared in  examination  .You have got  42 percentile,  it means that your performance was better than 42   percent of the total candidates that appeared in jee main  examination

With your percentile

• Your rank will be around 583110 - 655500 as

our rank predictor at

To help you  further,

To give an idea of jee main 2022 qualifying cut off ,

Minimum percentile in jee main 2021 to qualify it is given below :-

--------) general :-87.8992241 percentile

--------) EWS:- 66.2214845 percentile

--------) OBC-NCL :- 68.0234447 percentile

--------) SC :- 46.8825338 percentile

--------) ST:- 34.6728999 percentile

--------) PWD :- 0.0096375 percentile

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

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

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 enhance your performance in jee main 2nd session, you can go for jee main rank booster course for which link is given below:-

https://learn.careers360.com/jee-main-rank-booster/

Regards

ADITYA KUMAR