NEET 2020

NEET (NATIONAL ELIGIBILITY CUM ENTRANCE TEST)

NEET 2020 Exam Date - 13/09/2020 (Sunday) UPDATED

The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate) (NEET (UG)), formerly the All India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT), is an entrance examination in India for students who wish to study undergraduate medical courses (MBBS) and dental courses (BDS) in government or private medical and dental colleges in India. 

The undergraduate NEET (UG), for MBBS and BDS courses, is currently conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA), which provides the results to the Directorate General of Health Services at the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

Prior to 2019, the test was conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in partnership with Prometric Testing Pvt Ltd headquartered in the US. NEET-UG replaced the All India Pre Medical Test (AIPMT) and all individual MBBS exams conducted by states or colleges themselves in 2013. However, many colleges and institutes had taken a stay order and conducted private examinations for admission to their MBBS and BDS courses.

NEET-UG is a single entrance test for admissions to more than 66,000 MBBS and BDS seats across India. In 2018, around 80% of the candidates wrote NEET-UG in English, 11% in Hindi, 4.31% in Gujarati, 3% in Bengali and 1.86% in Tamil. Entrance exams to Undergraduate courses at the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER) were included into NEET in the academic year 2020 and onwards by the Government of India.

Exam pattern and structure

There are questions asked from Physics, Chemistry, Botany and Zoology. There are 45 questions from each of the sections. A correct response gives the candidate 4 marks and 1 mark is deducted for every wrong answer. No marks are deducted if the candidate has not attempted a question. The total time duration is 3 hours.

Syllabus NEET UG

Syllabus consists of concepts taught in standard 11 and 12 in the Indian school systems (Physics, Chemistry and Biology). Organizing body NEET-UG is currently conducted (2019 and onwards) by the National Testing Agency (NTA). Formerly, it was conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education, from 2013 to 2018.

Cut off mark

Category	Minimum Qualifying Percentile
As of 2019
Unreserved (UR)	50th Percentile
Unreserved PH (UR-PH)	45th Percentile
Scheduled Caste (SC)	40th Percentile
Scheduled Tribe (ST)	40th Percentile
Other Backward Classes (OBC)	40th Percentile
SC-PH	40th Percentile
ST-PH	40th Percentile
OBC-PH	40th Percentile

Application fees as per NEET 2019

Category	Quota	Mode	Gender	Amount
General, OBC		Online, Offline	Male	₹ 1400
ST, SC		Online, Offline	Transgender, Female, Male	₹ 750
General, ST, SC, OBC	PWD	Online, Offline	Transgender, Female, Male	₹ 750

Colleges

Colleges	No. of seats offered
All private colleges	25,840
All government colleges	27,590
NEET Counselling seats	3,521
NEET Basis seats	35,461