NEET 2025: Over 50% Candidates Expecting Less than 400 Marks; Reveals Shiksha Poll
National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test 2025 ( NEET )
Shiksha.com ran a poll with the question, ‘What is your expected score for NEET 2025?’.The majority of the votes received indicate that over 50 per cent of the respondents are estimating a score below 400. Know the details of the Shiksha.com polls related to NEET 2025 and their results here on this page.
Over 50% Candidates Expecting Less than 400 Score in NEET 2025: Shiksha Poll
As candidates are eagerly waiting for the NEET 2025 official answer keys and OMR sheet, by now, they have gathered an idea of the estimated score in the exam. While the full marks is 720, and it is possible to score the full marks if the NEET 2025 question paper is attempted with 100 per cent accuracy, experts are predicting that this year it will be difficult to score a full mark owing to the high difficulty level of the exam.
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Shiksha.com ran a poll with the question, ‘What is your expected score for NEET 2025?’. The majority of the votes received indicates that over 50 per cent of the respondents are estimating a score below 400. On the other hand, only four per cent are expecting a NEET 2025 score in the range of 700 to 720.
Since the NEET scorecards are released by the National Testing Agency (NTA), the exam conducting body, in an online mode, it can be accessed and downloaded anytime by the test-takers. Once the NEET result is declared, candidates will have to download the NEET scorecard by logging in with their registration credentials and take multiple printouts. They are also advised to save the NEET scorecard PDF softcopy in their computer systems or mobile phones for easy access. In case they lose the hardcopy or even the softcopy of the NEET scorecard, they can visit the NEET website, click on the Download NEET-UG Scorecard tab from the latest News section and download it by entering the NEET application number, date of birth and security pin. The validity of the NEET scorecard is one year. Hence, candidates will be able to download the NEET scorecard PDF as many times they wish to within this period.
- Shiksha Poll: What is Your Expected Score in NEET 2025?
- NEET 2025 Difficulty Level
- NEET 2025 Toughest Section
Shiksha Poll: What is Your Expected Score in NEET 2025?
For the above poll question, we provided five answer options, which are given below:
- Between 700 and 720
- Between 600 and 699
- Between 500 and 599
- Between 400 and 499
- Less than 400
Take a look at the poll result snapshot.
The second highest vote has been given to the option ‘Between 400 and 499’, which is 27 per cent. The option ‘Between 500 and 599’ has received 13 per cent votes. Interestingly, the lowest vote has been given to the answer option ‘Between 600 and 699’, whereas the highest score range, which is ‘Between 700 and 720’ has got the second-lowest votes, which is four per cent.
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NEET 2025 Difficulty Level
When asked about the NEET 2025 difficulty level as perceived by the test-takers, the majority of the voters opted for the option ‘Very Tough’, which is 62 per cent. The second highest votes have been given to the option ‘Tough’, followed by ‘Moderate’ and ‘Easy’ respectively.
The snapshot below shows the poll question ‘What was the difficulty level of NEET 2025’ along with the answer options and the poll percentages.
Based on the NEET 2025 analysis, experts have opined that this year the difficulty level of NEET 2025 was exceptionally tough. The question types were also trickier and mostly numerical-based, for the Physics section. Even in the other two sections, the theory-based questions were not direct, but were application-based. Questions were not asked from a single topic, but were a combination of multiple topics, which only students with a strong conceptual clarity and knowledge would be able to solve accurately. That is why experts are predicting low chance of the highest score of NEET 2025 being 720, and vis-à-vis a lower NEET 2025 cutoff than last year.
NEET score card is valid for admission to the current academic session only. NEET 2025 result cannot be carried forward for admission to the 2026-27 academic session. Hence, in case a candidate fails to qualify for NEET 2025 or unable to take admission in that academic year, then they have to appear for NEET next year and seek admission. Beyond a year, the NEET scorecard will just be another document or a record to prove the appearance in NEET.
The National Testing Agency announced the NEET 2025 result on June 14, 2025. The NEET 2025 final answer key was released on the same date. Last year, the date of NEET result declaration was June 14, but the result was announced 10 days in advance, on June 4, 2024.
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NEET 2025 Toughest Section
Shiksha.com also ran a poll on the toughest section of NEET 2025. The question was, ‘Which was the toughest section of NEET 2025’?
The answer options were Physics, Chemistry, Botany and Zoology. While Physics received the highest vote of 91 per cent. Rest of the three subjects received a vote of three per cent each. The below screenshot brings the options and percentage of poll received for each.
The NEET 2025 exam was held on May 4, 2025, for around 21 lakh candidates. NTA will release the official NEET 2025 provisional answer key and OMR sheets by the fourth week of May 2025. The NEET 2025 result is scheduled to be declared by June 14, 2025.
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