The eligibility criteria for NEET UG is a pass in plus-two from a recognised educational institution located anywhere in India. The age limit for the applicants must be 17 at the minimum. The applicants must be citizens of India and can be the residents of any one of the states or union territories in India. More information is provided below in a tabular format for the sake of the students:
| Age | Educational Qualification | Citizenship |
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Lower Age Limit: He/she has completed 17 years of age at the time of admission or will complete that age on or before 31 December of the year of his/her admission to the first year of the Undergraduate Medical Course Upper age limit: As per Letter No. U-11022/2/2022-UGMEB, dated 09 March 2022 received from National Medical Commission (NMC), Under Graduate Medical Education Board (UGMEB) regarding the upper age limit, that there should be no upper age limit as decided in the fourth NMC meeting held on 21 October 2021. |
Students have to pass plus-two from the recognized educational institutions in science stream with biology (botany, zoology), physics and chemistry as subjects. Students who have appeared for their final exams of plus-two and are waiting for results or candidates who are about to appear for the exams can also apply. However, these people have to pass the exam and provide a proof for it by the time they apply for counselling. |
Applicants must be citizens of India. They can be residing in any state or union territory of India. Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) or Overseas Indian Citizens (OIC) can also apply. More information can be obtained in this regard from the exam prospectus which would be released at the time of commencement of registration. |
The exam will be conducted offline and students have to mark their answers on a separate answersheet provided at the test centre. The questions in the exam will be related to 11th and 12th standard biology, physics and chemistry lessons. The format of questions will be multiple choice where each question will have more than one reply and the right one among that has to be chosen to score marks.
Duration to answer the questions is 3 Hours 20 Minutes or 200 minutes. Every rightly answered question gets 4 marks and wrongly answered questions will lose 1 mark. There will total of 200 questions and marks in total are 720. Each subject will have two sections, and total sections would be eight. Information is also available in the tabular format below for the sake of the students:
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Mode of the examination |
Offline |
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Duration of the examination |
3 Hours 20 Minutes or 200 Minutes |
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Type of questions |
Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) |
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Total number of Questions |
200 |
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Total Marks |
720 |
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Negative marking |
Yes |
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Marking Scheme |
4 Marks for each correct answer 1 Mark for each incorrect answer |
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Total sections in the question paper |
2 Sections per each subject - Botany, Zoology, Physics and Chemistry. Total number of sections are 8 Section A - 35 questions Section B- 15 questions |
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Subjects for questions |
Physics, Chemistry and Biology (Botany + Zoology) |
Marks and Questions per subject
| Subjects | Questions | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| Physics Section A | 35 | 140 |
| Physics Section B | 15 | 40 |
| Chemistry Section A | 35 | 140 |
| Chemistry Section B | 15 | 40 |
| Botany Section A | 35 | 140 |
| Botany Section B | 15 | 40 |
| Zoology Section A | 35 | 140 |
| Zoology Section B | 15 | 40 |
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