NIT Eligibility

You can check this year's category wise opening and closing ranks of round 6 counselling at
https://josaa.nic.in/webinfocms/Public/View.aspx?page=71
Check for the Homestate NIT first. There you may get an idea of your selection.

Special round is the last round of counseling, and it's especially for students who have not yet allotted any seat from previous counselling rounds. So, to make sure students should not be left behind and seats to be full filled special round is taken by Colleges. Regards.

Hello,
Kindly visit on Shiksha college predictor:
https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.shiksha.com/b-tech/resources/jee-mains-college-predictor&ved=2ahUKEwjPs-iFqpTcAhWMRY8KHariB-kQFjAAegQIBBAB&usg=AOvVaw1N9BzFtyUCP4JU-2UQHQ0H.

Hi, Joint Entrance Examination JEE Main is conducted to offer admissions to interested candidates in undergraduate engineering programmes at NITs (National Institutes of Technology), IIITs (Indian Institutes of Information Technology) and other centrally funded technical institutions (CFTIs) located

Hello, suggest you to visit the link provided to know your chances of getting NITs.
Link: https://www.shiksha.com/b-tech/resources/jee-mains-college-predictor.

To take admission in any NIT, you must score good marks in JEE Mains Paper 1. Without clearing JEE Mains, you cannot take admission in any NIT and 12th marks do not affect your admission in NIT.

As per NIT Silchar placement cell officials, the average annual package offered to students is Rs. 4 LPA and the highest annual package is Rs. 9.5 LPA during the campus placement.
Coming to teaching methodology there is a pre-decided course structure assigned to each of the departments, it depends u

Well, you can't clear JEE Main with your board exams. You have to study really hard for JEE Main, and as you said you want NIT, so try hard to get 150+ marks in JEE Main exam to get NIT and in board exam 80+ percentile as a save zone.

According to my knowledge, I would say in boards you must go for 75+ percentile, as it also work for scholarship and in JEE Main 140+. And, yes it all depend on the cutoff of every year and the field you are going to choose. I hope it help you.

No, you should try next time. You should have 3000 rank maximum to get admission in this college.