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Updated on Aug 31, 2021 16:31 IST

NEET 2020 result was announced on October 16. Take a look at the NEET 2020 statistics released by the National Testing Agency here.

NEET 2020 statistics

In August 2019, the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) became the sole entrance test for admission to MBBS/BDS courses in India. Admission to AIIMS, JIPMER, PGIMER and all other AIIMS group of institutes will now be through NEET. The National Testing Agency (NTA) is responsible for conducting the examination and preparing the All-India merit list. However, the role of NTA ends here. The admission or counselling process for the all-India quota seats is carried out by the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) on behalf of the Directorate General of Health Sciences.

NEET 2020 was conducted on September 13 and October 14. NTA released the combined NEET 2020 result for both these examinations. After the announcement of NEET result 2020, NTA also released the statistics for this year. The notification also contains the details of last year to allow comparisons. Candidates who have qualified the examination will be eligible to participate in the NEET 2020 counselling process. 

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Highlights of NEET 2020

Parameters

2019

2020

Number of candidates registered

15,19,375

15,97,435

Number of Candidates Present

14,10,755

13,66,945

Number of Candidates Absent

1,08,620

2,30,490

Indian Nationals

15,16,066

15,93,907

NRIs

1,884

1,869

OCIs

675

732

PIO

63

49

Foreigners

687

878

Male

6,80,414

7,16,586

Female

8,38,955

8,80,843

Transgender

6

6

Open category

5,34,072

4,75,534

SC

2,11,303

2,21,253

ST

96,456

1,00,519

OBC

6,77,544

7,06,214

EWS

-

93,915

Number of Cities

154

155

Number of Languages

11

11

Number of centres

2,546

3,862

Number of Centre / Deputy Centre Superintendent

5,970

9,680

Number of rooms

64,000

1,33,120

Number of invigilators

1,28,000

2,66,240

Number of Observers

3,600

5,818

Number of City Coordinators

163

195

The question paper of NEET 2020 was made available to candidates in eleven different languages. Candidates belonging to a particular region could opt to appear for NEET 2020 in their regional language. NTA has released the language-wise statistics for the candidates who had applied for NEET 2020.

 

Language

NEET 2019

NEET 2020

Number of registered candidates

Percentage of candidates

Number of registered candidates

Percentage of candidates

English

12,04,968

79.31

12,63,273

79.08

Hindi

1,79,857

11.84

2,04,399

12.80

Assamese

1,796

0.12

5,328

0.33

Bengali

4,750

0.31

36,593

2.29

Gujarati

59,395

3.91

59,055

3.70

Kannada

2,305

0.15

1,005

0.06

Marathi

31,239

2.06

6,258

0.39

Odia

31,490

2.07

822

0.05

Tamil

1,017

0.07

17,101

1.07

Telugu

700

0.05

1,624

0.10

Urdu

1,858

0.12

1,977

0.12

English & Hindi

13,84,825

91.14

14,67,672

91.88

Regional Languages

1,34,550

08.86

1,29,763

8.12

Next is the gender-wise statistics of the candidates who had applied for NEET 2020 vs those who actually wrote the examination. NTA has also provided the statistics for last year to permit comparison between these two years.

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Gender

Male

Female

Transgender

NEET 2019

Registered

6,80,414

8,38,955

6

Appeared

6,30,283

7,80,467

5

Qualified

3,51,278

4,45,761

3

NEET 2020

Registered

7,16,586

8,80,843

6

Appeared

6,18,075

7,48,866

4

Qualified

3,43,556

4,27,943

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Category-wise data for the candidates who appeared for the examination vs those who qualified the examination in NEET 2020 has been given below. This is followed by the same data for NEET 2019. Candidates can draw comparisons between the two tables to analyse the growth with respect to last year.

Category

Registered

Appeared

Qualified

NEET 2020

OBC

7,06,214

6,07,230

3,59,447

SC

2,21,253

1,90,630

98,809

ST

1,00,519

80,455

33,848

UR

4,75,534

4,02,831

2,21,952

EWS

93,915

85,799

57,444

Total

15,97,435

13,66,945

7,71,500

NEET 2019

OBC

6,77,544

6,31,473

3,75,635

SC

2,11,303

1,93,188

99,890

ST

96,456

86,210

35,272

UR

5,34,072

4,99,884

2,86,245

EWS

-

-

-

Total

15,19,375

14,10,755

7,97,042

Out of the total candidates who applied for NEET 2020, 5,411 candidates belonged to the PwD category. However, only 4,953 students actually appeared for the examination. The total number of PwD candidates who qualified NEET 2020 is 2,186.

Not only Indian citizens, but foreign nationals and NRI students also apply for NEET every year. Here are the statistics for the NEET 2020 applicants according to their nationality.

Nationality

Registered

Appeared

Qualified

NEET 2020

Indian

15,93,907

13,65,154

7,70,201

Foreigner

878

424

256

NRI

1,869

854

600

OCI

732

481

418

PIO

49

32

25

Total

15,97,435

13,66,945

7,71,500

NEET 2019

Indian

15,16,066

14,08,051

7,95,031

Foreigner

687

483

315

NRI

1,884

1,612

1,209

OCI

675

552

441

PIO

63

57

46

Total

15,19,375

14,10,755

7,97,042

NTA has also released the numbers for the candidates who have qualified NEET 2020 under each category qualifying criteria. These numbers can also be found on the individual scorecards.

Category

Qualifying Percentile

Qualifying Marks

Number of candidates

UR

50th

720-147

6,82,406

OBC

40th

146-113

61,265

SC

40th

146-113

19,572

ST

40th

146-113

7,837

UR EWS or PwD

45th

146-129

99

OBC PwD

40th

128-113

233

SC PwD

40th

128-113

70

ST PwD

40th

128-113

18

Total

7,71,500

Another important information that has been shared by NTA is the state-wise data for NEET 2020 applicants vs the number of candidates who have qualified the examination. The first column here contains the names of the states. Next three columns contain the number of candidates who had registered for NEET 2020 from the respective state, the number of candidates who could actually appear for the exam and the total number of candidates who could qualify the examination. The last column represents the percentage of candidates who could qualify NEET 2020 result with respect to the total number of applicants.

State Name

Number of Registered Candidates

Number of Candidates Appeared

Number of Qualified Candidates

Percentage of qualified candidates

Andaman & Nicobar Islands

914

816

413

50.61%

Andhra Pradesh

62,051

57,721

33,841

58.63%

Arunachal Pradesh

4,110

3,276

1,642

50.12%

Assam

29,973

23,648

11,052

46.74%

Bihar

95,150

83,038

46,327

55.79%

Chandigarh

1,631

1,449

1,096

75.64%

Chhattisgarh

31,027

26,030

12,792

49.14%

Dadra & Nagar Haveli

776

671

288

42.92%

Daman & Diu

386

317

144

45.43%

Delhi

34,520

31,202

23,554

75.49%

Goa

3,824

3,135

1,582

50.46%

Gujarat

79,228

64,791

36,398

56.18%

Haryana

34,163

30,719

22,395

72.90%

Himachal Pradesh

14,565

12,694

7,622

60.04%

Jammu and Kashmir

34,615

31,479

14,743

46.83%

Jharkhand

19,847

17,214

10,811

62.80%

Karnataka

1,18,978

89,359

55,009

61.56%

Kerala

1,15,480

92,911

59,404

63.94%

Lakshadweep

300

239

105

43.93%

Madhya Pradesh

64,110

55,461

27,134

48.92%

Maharashtra

2,27,659

1,95,338

79,974

40.94%

Manipur

7,049

5,976

3,548

59.37%

Meghalaya

3,149

2,149

978

45.51%

Mizoram

1,784

1,359

587

43.19%

Nagaland

2,356

1,805

731

40.50%

Odisha

38,494

33,945

20,654

60.85%

Puducherry

4,925

4,474

2,362

52.79%

Punjab

15,070

13,182

8,614

65.35%

Rajasthan

1,04,173

95,752

65,758

68.68%

Sikkim

855

650

317

48.77%

Tamil Nadu

1,21,617

99,610

57,215

57.44%

Telangana

54,872

50,392

1,738

49.15%

Tripura

4,273

3,536

88,889

56.62%

Uttar Pradesh

1,74,523

1,56,992

7,323

60.79%

Uttarakhand

13,933

12,047

37,301

60.27%

West Bengal

74,490

61,887

28,093

55.75%

Ladakh

906

744

367

49.33%

Others 

1,659

937

699

74.60%

Total

15,97,435

13,66,945

7,71,500

56.44%

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