In this paper, we study the critical norm conjecture for the intercritical nonlinear Schrödinger equation with critical index sc satisfying 1 2 < sc < 1 when d ≥ 5. Under the assumption of uniform boundedness of the critical norm, we prove the global well-posedness and scattering for the Cauchy problem. We follow the standard 'Concentration compactness/Rigidity method' established in [15,16], and treat three scenarios for the critical element respectively. Moreover, double Duhamel method and interaction Morawetz estimate are applied to exclude the critical element.