Dev, yes you can get NITs on the basis of previous years records and you category rank. However, there are chances that you might not get your desired seat but you can get some of the NITs such as nit patna, nit Mizoram, nit Manipur, nit Assam, nit meghalaya etc.

If you want to get your desired seat in any of the top colleges, then you can try for vit, srm, DTU etc.

To know more, kindly visit the link given below

https://www.google.com/amp/s/engineering.careers360.com/articles/nits-cutoff-for-top-btech-branches/amp

Also, you can use the tool link given below

JEE Main College Predictor link

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

Thank you