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NEET-UG

National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate)

The single national gateway to MBBS, BDS, BAMS, BHMS, BUMS, BSMS, BVSc & AH and B.Sc (Hons) Nursing seats in India, including AIIMS and JIPMER. All medical admissions — government and private — flow through the NEET-UG merit list.

Eligibility

Candidates must have passed (or be appearing in) Class 12 with Physics, Chemistry, Biology/Biotechnology and English, with at least 50% aggregate in PCB (40% for SC/ST/OBC, 45% for General-PwD). Minimum age is 17 years by 31 December of the admission year; there is no upper age limit. There is no cap on the number of attempts.

Age limit: Minimum 17 years by 31 December of the admission year; no upper age limit

Exam pattern

Pen-and-paper (OMR) test of 3 hours with 180 compulsory multiple-choice questions — 45 each in Physics, Chemistry, Botany and Zoology — for a total of 720 marks. Marking is +4 for a correct answer and −1 for a wrong one; unattempted questions score zero. Since 2025 the optional Section B has been scrapped, so all 180 questions must be answered within 180 minutes. The paper is offered in 13 languages including Hindi and English. Note: the 3 May 2026 paper was cancelled after a leak and re-conducted on 21 June 2026 — a reminder to track only official NTA notices.

Syllabus at a glance

The NMC-notified syllabus covers Class 11 and 12 NCERT Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Biology (Botany + Zoology) carries half the paper at 360 marks and is heavily NCERT-verbatim. Chemistry spans physical, organic and inorganic; Physics covers mechanics, electrodynamics, optics and modern physics with numerical problem-solving.

Upcoming dates

Event	Date	Status
NEET-UG 2026 re-exam result (exam re-conducted 21 June 2026)	By 20 Jul 2026	confirmed
MCC counselling for 2026-27 admissions (Round 1)	Aug–Sep 2026	expected
NEET-UG 2027 notification and application window	Jan–Feb 2027	expected
NEET-UG 2027 exam	2 May 2027 (first Sunday of May, expected)	expected
NEET-UG 2027 result	Jun 2027	expected

Expected dates follow the usual calendar; confirm on the official notification before planning.

Free prep material

Official

NEET (UG) official portal — neet.nta.nic.in

The only authoritative source for notifications, admit cards, answer keys and previous question papers.

Mock tests

National Test Abhyas app (NTA)

NTA's own free mock-test app with full-length NEET papers in exam interface.

Study material

NCERT textbooks (free PDFs)

The Class 11–12 NCERT books are the syllabus itself — Biology questions are often lifted verbatim.

Video course

Physics Wallah — YouTube

Free full-syllabus NEET lecture series (Yakeen/Arjuna batches) covering PCB from basics.

Video course

Khan Academy — Biology

Free concept-first biology and chemistry videos, useful for weak foundations.

Official

MCC — Medical Counselling Committee

Official portal for All-India Quota counselling, seat matrix and cut-offs after the result.

Standard books

NCERT Biology, Class 11 & 12 — NCERT
Objective NCERT at Your Fingertips: Biology — MTG Editorial Board
Concepts of Physics (Vol 1 & 2) — H.C. Verma
Objective Physics for NEET — D.C. Pandey (Arihant)
Physical Chemistry for NEET — O.P. Tandon (GRB)
Trueman's Elementary Biology — K.N. Bhatia & M.P. Tyagi

How toppers play it

Biology is 360 of 720 marks and NCERT-verbatim heavy — read the NCERT line by line, including tables, diagrams and the small-print boxes.
Attempt in the order Biology → Chemistry → Physics: bank the fast marks first and leave calculation-heavy Physics for the remaining time.
With +4/−1 marking, guess only when you can eliminate at least two options; wild guessing across even 20 questions can cost a lakh ranks.
Since 2025 all 180 questions are compulsory in 180 minutes — train at a strict one-minute-per-question pace in full mocks.
The exam is pen-and-paper: practise OMR bubbling in every mock, as transfer errors are a real and avoidable score killer.