No perfect scores in NEET-UG '25, cutoffs dip; Rajasthan boy is AIR 1

NEW DELHI: Not a azygous campaigner scored a cleanable 720 successful the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate) (NEET-UG 2025), a stark departure from past twelvemonth erstwhile 17 students had achieved the maximum imaginable marks.

The highest people this twelvemonth was 686, secured by Mahesh Kumar from Rajasthan, indicating a tougher question insubstantial and much stringent evaluation. The driblet successful scores is besides reflected successful the cut-offs, which person declined crossed each categories.Delhi's Avika Aggarwal, ranked 5th overall, is the highest-scoring pistillate campaigner this twelvemonth and the lone 1 successful the apical 10. Delhi besides had the astir candidates successful the apical 100 with 17, followed by Rajasthan (14), Maharashtra (11), Gujarat and Punjab (9 each), and Karnataka (7).

Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, and others besides had beardown representation."A fewer months earlier the exam, unit increases automatically, and fixed past year's NEET-UG entrance, a small spot of hostility was normal. Then erstwhile we got the question paper, it was a antithetic format...so keeping calm and solving it nether unit was a challenge. After the paper, I knew I wouldn't get a people of 700 similar I utilized to successful signifier papers, but aboriginal erstwhile I analysed the answers, I realised that I would get a decent rank, ne'er thought that it would beryllium AIR 1," said Mahesh Kumar.

Out of 22L who appeared for NEET-UG, implicit 12k qualified Having doc parents didn't unit me-it prepared me. They warned maine astir however demanding this way is, but I inactive chose it for myself. I knew what I was walking into, and I worked hard to gain it," said Avika Aggarwal.The National Testing Agency (NTA) released the results connected Saturday. Out of 22.09 lakh candidates who appeared for the exam held connected May 4, 12,36,531 person qualified. This is simply a driblet from past year's 13.15 lakh qualifiers though the fig of trial takers besides was higher astatine 23.33 lakh.

Among the palmy candidates, 7.22 lakh are women and 5.14 lakh are men. Additionally, 529 overseas nationals, 405 NRIs, and 606 OCI cardholders qualified, reflecting the exam's planetary reach.

Rounding retired the apical ranks are Utkarsh Awadhiya from Madhya Pradesh (Rank 2), Krishang Joshi from Maharashtra (Rank 3), and Mrinal Kishore Jha from Delhi (Rank 4). All apical 10 candidates beryllium to the wide category.

In different categories, the highest-ranked OBC-NCL candidate, Tanay from Rajasthan, secured 13th position. Haryana's Kavish led the EWS class with a 35th rank. Among SC candidates, Ayush Gautam from UP topped with a 53rd rank, portion Rajasthan's Nishant Kumar Meena topped the ST class astatine 197th position.

Notably, 7 of the apical 10 ST rankers are from Rajasthan.The qualifying cut-off scope for the wide and EWS categories dropped from 720-162 past twelvemonth to 686-144 this year.

For OBC, SC, and ST candidates, the cut-off fell from 161-127 to 143-113. A full of 5,64,611 OBC, 3,38,728 General, 1,68,873 SC, and 67,234 ST candidates person qualified.Only 73 candidates scored betwixt 651 and 686 marks. Another 1,259 scored betwixt 601 and 650. The bulk of candidates fell successful the 301-550 people range, with much than 1.26 lakh scoring betwixt 301 and 350, and implicit 3 lakh betwixt 144 and 200-the minimum qualifying range.UP had the highest fig of qualifying candidates astatine implicit 1.7 lakh, followed by Maharashtra (over 1.2 lakh) and Rajasthan (over 1.19 lakh). States similar Karnataka, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala besides recorded implicit 70,000 qualifiers each, portion Delhi saw implicit 40,000 students qualifyNEET-UG is the sole entranceway introspection for undergraduate aesculapian and dental courses successful India. It is besides utilized for admittance to courses successful Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homeopathy. Conducted successful 13 languages crossed 5,468 centres successful 552 cities-including 14 overseas locations-the exam remains 1 of India's largest and astir competitory entranceway tests. This year's exam was held successful pen-and-paper mode, with 1.08 lakh MBBS seats connected connection crossed govt and backstage institutions.