Hello Buddy! Hope you're doing good.

No, it is not necessary. You can also use your category rank if you are not belonging to the state. For knowing your admission possibility with your rank you can checkout the previous year cuy=toff trend along with their state and category :-

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/mht-cet-cutoff/amp

Hope this will help you.

ALL THE BEST! WORK HARD !!