Counselling - 11 Oct '25
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) conducted NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) - UG 2018 on May 6 at more than 2000 exam centres across 136 cities in India. The exam, which is a gateway for admissions to MBBS and BDS courses, was taken by more than 1.3 million aspirants. According to experts, NEET UG 2018 was easier as compared to the year 2017. While there were similarities between the NEET 2018 syllabus and the syllabus of Class 12th, the questions in the exam were not time consuming.
NEET (UG) exam comprised 180 objective type questions (four options with single correct answer) from Physics, Chemistry and Biology (Botany & Zoology). This year, the exam was held in 11 languages; English, Hindi, Urdu, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil and Telugu.
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NEET (UG) 2018 Exam Analysis by Career Point:
Physics:
- Physics paper was balanced. It covers almost all chapters.
- 20 Questions from class 11th while 25 Questions from class 12th.
- Most of the questions were average and from Career Point Class Notes and from Study Material.
- Few Questions are simply Formula based.
- Few Questions involve lengthy calculation which makes paper slightly difficult as compared to previous year question Paper.
Chemistry:
- PHYSICAL:-Paper is calculative and comparatively harder than last year. One question from mole concept was quiet hard and Ionic equilibrium question was very lengthy
- INORGANIC:-Inorganic section is average and from co-ordinate chemistry 5 questions were asked. Overall easy than last year. None of the answers in one question from P-block chemistry was correct hence 4 marks must be awarded to all students in this question.
- ORGANIC:-Paper is overall average and scoring. Most of the chemical reactions are mechanism based nearly same as that of last year. One question of –I Effect has two correct answers.
Biology:
- Question paper was well balanced covering almost all units of the prescribed syllabus.
- Difficulty level was almost similar to last year, but questions were free from ambiguous options, this made the paper easier to solve for the candidate.
- Out of 180 Questions 18 were easy, 60 Average and 12 Difficult.
- Around 56%Questions were from 11th and 44% Questions from 12th class.
Check the detailed NEET (UG) 2018 exam analysis here!
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The application fee ranges from INR 500 to INR 5,500. Students can check the table below to know the Karnataka NEET UG Counselling application fee:
Category | Fee (in INR) |
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NRI/OCI/PIO/Foreign nationals | 5,500/- |
General/2A/2B/3A/3B | 2,500/- |
SC/ST/Cat-I/PWD | 500/- |
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