Over 70% Candidates Ranked 50,000 or lower in NEET 2025: Reveals Shiksha Poll

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Updated on Jul 2, 2025 16:58 IST
The NEET 2025 result was declared on June 14, 2025. After the declaration of the result, Shiksha.com ran a poll to check the rank range of the test-takers. As per the responses, the highest votes have been given to the option of getting above 50,000 rank in NEET 2025.

The NEET 2025 result was declared on June 14, 2025. After the declaration of the result, Shiksha.com ran a poll to check the rank range of the test-takers. As per the responses, the highest votes have been given to the option of getting above 50,000 rank in NEET 2025.

Majority NEET 2025 candidates ranked below 50,000

Majority NEET 2025 candidates ranked below 50,000

The NEET 2025 result was declared on June 14, 2025. As per the report by the National Testing Agency (NTA), the exam has been qualified by 12,36,531 candidates out of 22,09,318 candidates who had appeared for the exam. After the declaration of the result, Shiksha.com ran a poll to check the rank range of the test-takers.

As per the responses, the highest votes have been given to the option of getting above 50,000 rank in NEET 2025. The second-highest votes have been given to the option ‘Between 10,001 and 50,000.’ Let us analyse this Shiksha poll and the result.

Shiksha Poll: What is Your Rank in NEET 2025?

The options for this poll are given below:

  • Between 1 and 1000
  • Between 1,000 and 5,000
  • Between 5,001 and 10,000
  • Between 10,001 and 50,000
  • Above 50,000

The snapshot below shows the candidate responses.

It is interesting to note that while six per cent of the respondents have secured a rank between 1 and 1,000, which is the topper group, the rank range of 1,000 and 5,000 and 5,001 and 10,000 have received four per cent votes each.

This suggests that the majority of the candidates have secured an All India Rank between 50,000 and beyond.

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Commonly asked questions
Q:   How will I know that I have scored above the NEET cutoff or not?
A: 

The cutoff for NEET is released along with the result or the scorecard. The NEET cutoff or qualifying marks vary for each category, which are General, SC, ST, OBC and PwD/PH. Along with candidates' scores, percentiles and All India Rank (AIR), NTA also indicates the Qualifying Status of candidates in the scorecard. NTA also released the NEET 2025 cutoff in the official notice along with the declaration of the NEET result. The qualifying cutoff for NEET 2025 is given below:

Category

NEET 2025 Cutoff percentile

NEET 2025 Cutoff score

UR/EWS

50th

686-144

OBC, SC, ST

40th

143-113

UR/EWS-PwD

45th

143-127

OBC/SC/St-PwD

40th

126-113

Q:   What is the category-wise NEET cutoff percentile?
A: 

 The category-wise NEET cutoff percentile is given in the table below:

Category

NEET Cut Off Percentile

 General Category/Unreserved (UR) Category

50

OBC/SC/ST

40

PwD (General/UR)

45

PwD (Reserved)

40

Q:   What is the cutoff for NEET?
A: 

The NEET 2026 cutoff will be released along with the results. The NTA will release the NEET UG cutoff marks based on the difficulty level. Till then, take a look at the NEET 2025 cutoff for reference. 

Category

NEET 2025 Cutoff percentile

NEET 2025 Cutoff score

UR/EWS

50th

686-144

OBC, SC, ST

40th

143-113

UR/EWS-PwD

45th

143-127

OBC/SC/St-PwD

40th

126-113

 

Q:   What is the NEET cutoff score?
A: 

The NEET cut off score generally changes every year, based on the exam difficulty level. The NEET 2025 cut off score was reduced from that of 2024. Have a look at the cut off scores of NEET 2025 exam below-

Category

NEET 2025 Cutoff percentile

NEET 2025 Cutoff score

UR/EWS

50th

686-144

OBC, SC, ST

40th

143-113

UR/EWS-PwD

45th

143-127

OBC/SC/St-PwD

40th

126-113

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Candidate Reactions on NEET 2025 Result

After the NEET 2025 result declaration, Shiksha.com ran another poll asking candidates, ‘Are you satisfied with your NEET 2025 result?’ As per the responses, only 16 per cent candidates have stated that they have scored as per expectations. On the other hand, 28 per cent of candidates have voted for the option ‘Cleared cutoff, but expected better marks’.

Majority of the candidates, accounting to 33 per cent, have voted for the option ‘Not satisfied, could not clear cutoff’. Take a look at the poll snapshot below.

Owing to a very high difficulty level of the NEET 2025 question paper, the cutoff is much lower than last year. Hence, the overall sentiment among candidates turned out to be gloomy. In fact, candidates could not score full marks of 720 this year and the highest marks obtained was 686.

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