NEET (UG)
National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate) 2026
Collected from the official website on 14/11/2026. Our team has not verified these details yet.
NEET (UG) is the single national entrance test for undergraduate medical, dental and AYUSH courses in India, conducted by NTA. The score is used for the 15% All India Quota counselling by MCC and for state-quota counselling by each state.
Dates
Dates of the 2026 exam — the next dates are not announced yet. Always check the official website.
- Application opens
- 08/02/2026
- Last date to apply
- 08/03/2026
- Exam
- Held 03/05/2026; re-examination held 21/06/2026 (results based on the 21/06/2026 exam)
- Result
- 16/07/2026
- Conducted by
- National Testing Agency (NTA)
- For
- MBBS, BDS, BAMS, BSMS, BUMS, BHMS and B.Sc. Nursing (as per the counselling authorities)
- Mode
- Pen and paper (offline)
- Duration
- 3 hours (180 minutes), 02:00 PM to 05:00 PM
- Languages
- 13: Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu
- Attempts per year
- 1
- Application fee
- General ₹1,700; General-EWS / OBC-NCL ₹1,600; SC/ST/PwBD/PwD/Third Gender ₹1,000; centres outside India ₹9,500 (2026).
Eligibility
Candidate must have completed 17 years of age on or before 31 December of the exam year; there is no upper age limit. Course-wise qualifying-exam requirements are as per NMC/DCI regulations given in the bulletin.
Exam pattern
180 MCQs, 720 marks: Physics 45 (180 marks), Chemistry 45 (180), Biology (Botany & Zoology) 90 (360); +4 correct, -1 incorrect, 0 unanswered.
Score used for
MBBS/BDS/AYUSH/B.Sc. Nursing admissions: 15% All India Quota, AIIMS, JIPMER, central universities etc. via MCC (DGHS), and state-quota seats via state counselling authorities
For Maharashtra students
Any Maharashtra student seeking MBBS, BDS or AYUSH admission (state quota or All India Quota) must take NEET (UG); Maharashtra's state-quota medical counselling uses the NEET score.
Where this comes from
- dates: cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in/s37bc1ec1d9c3426357e69acd5bf320061/uploads/2026/02/202602231394640855.pdf
- result: cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in/s37bc1ec1d9c3426357e69acd5bf320061/uploads/2026/07/20260716477215762.pdf
- pattern: cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in/s37bc1ec1d9c3426357e69acd5bf320061/uploads/2026/02/202602231394640855.pdf
- eligibility: cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in/s37bc1ec1d9c3426357e69acd5bf320061/uploads/2026/02/202602231394640855.pdf
- re examination: cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in/s37bc1ec1d9c3426357e69acd5bf320061/uploads/2026/05/20260515960654684.pdf
- application fee: cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in/s37bc1ec1d9c3426357e69acd5bf320061/uploads/2026/02/202602231394640855.pdf