NEET Eligibility Criteria 2025: Check NEET Age Restriction, Qualification, No. of Attempts

Read the complete article to know more about the eligibility for NEET UG 2025.

• Candidates must have passed Physics, Chemistry, Biology/Biotechnology and English subjects individually in the qualifying examination.
• Candidates must have studied this subject as core or additional subjects.
• Candidates belonging to the General category must have scored a minimum of 50 per cent in the qualifying examination.
• Candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste/ Scheduled Tribes/ Other Backward should have a minimum score of 40 per cent in the qualifying examination.
• Candidates who belong to the General category and are applying under the Persons with Disability (PWD) Quota, must have a minimum score of 45 per cent marks in the qualifying examination.

NEET UG 2025 Eligibility Criteria: Minimum Qualifying Marks

The following table brings the minimum aggregate required in the qualifying exam or as per the evaluation criteria:

How Many Attempts for NEET?

The maximum number of attempts for the NEET has not been directed by the NTA. Thus, allowing a candidate to appear for NEET as many times as they want to.

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Till NEET 2023, only those students, who studied these subjects as core subjects were permitted to appear for the exam. NMC has revised the NEET UG 2024 eligibility as a response to the Court orders. As per the official notice released by NMC, the eligibility criteria of NEET 2024 is stated as, "Candidates who have passed 10+2 or its equivalent with the subjects of Physics, Chemistry, Biology / Biotechnology & English shall be eligible for appearing in NEET-UG."

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NEET Eligibility Criteria 2025 for Candidates Belonging to the UT of J&K/ Ladakh

Candidates belonging to the UT of J&K/ Ladakh are not eligible to apply for the 15 per cent All India Quota seats and can only apply for the seats of Deemed Universities, ESIC, and AFMC. 

NEET 2025 Eligibility Criteria for Candidates Applying for State/ Deemed/ Central/ ESIC/ AFMC Seats

The following criteria are related to the seat categories:

• Indian Nationals, NRIs, OCIs and PIOs are eligible to apply for these seats
• Foreign nationals should confirm their eligibility before applying for NEET 2025

NEET Eligibility Criteria 2025 for Candidates Applying for 15 per cent All India Quota (AIQ) Seats

Indian Nationals, NRIs, OCIs, PIOs and foreign nationals are eligible to apply for these seats.

The following table brings the new NEET reservation criteria for OBC, EWS, SC, ST and PwD categories under the 15 per cent AIQ seats are as follows:

On July 29, 2021, the Government of India made a landmark decision that from the academic year of 2021-22 onwards, there would be a 27 per cent OBC quota in NEET(Non-Creamy Layer) and a 10 per cent NEET reservation for EWS in 15 per cent Under Graduate (UG) All India Quota seats (MBBS/BDS) (contributed by the State/UTs to the Central Pool).

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NEET 2025 Eligibility Criteria for Central Universities 

Delhi University (MAMC, LHMC, UCMS): Like all other universities, only 15 per cent seats of the colleges affiliated with Delhi University will be filled through NEET counselling. The remaining 85 per cent of seats will be filled via DU NEET counselling. Candidates who have passed Class 11 and Class 12 from an institute located in Delhi will be able to apply for these 85 per cent seats.

Faculty of Dentistry, Jamia Millia Islamia: The institute offers 50 BDS seats, out of which 47 seats will be filled through the MCC NEET counselling. The remaining three seats fall under the institutional quota and will be allotted to only those candidates who have passed Class 11 and Class 12 from JMI. 

Aligarh Muslim University (AMU): The institute reserves 50 per cent of its seats for candidates who have studied at AMU for the past three years. Only such candidates will be able to apply for the institutional quota seats of AMU. The remaining 50 per cent will be filled through the MCC counselling of NEET.

Banaras Hindu University (BHU): All candidates who fulfil the basic eligibility criteria for NEET MCC counselling can apply for the seats at BHU. There is no special requirement for applying to this institute. 

NEET Eligibility Criteria 2025: Qualifying Examination Codes

The following table brings the code-wise description of the candidate category. 

The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) is an entrance test conducted for admission to various medical and allied courses, including MBBS, BDS and AYUSH. Thus, the eligibility criteria of NEET 2024 refer to a basic minimum qualification for a candidate to apply for the said courses.

NTA had removed the upper age limit clause from NEET 2021 eligibility criteria thus enabling aspirants older than 25 years to apply for it. All those who wish to apply for this national entrance test are advised to check their eligibility before filling out the NEET application form 2024. Candidates who do not fulfil the NEET eligibility criteria, if found ineligible, may have to face severe consequences such as the cancellation of their admission.

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