Over 70% Candidates Ranked 50,000 or lower in NEET 2025: Reveals Shiksha Poll
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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
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.
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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.
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 |
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 |
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.
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’.
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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.
The next step for candidates is the NEET 2025 counselling process, which is likely to begin in July or August 2025. The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) is the conducting authority for the 15 per cent All India Quota (AIQ) seats and State Counselling authorities will conduct the counselling process for 85 per cent State Quota seats.
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 |
The minimum qualifying percentile for OBC category in NEET UG exam is 40th. In NEET 2025, the cutoff score for OBC was 143-113. The NEET percentile of OBC remains the same every year. However, the scores get changed.
The official NEET 2025 cutoff is released by NTA along with the NEET 2025 result, which has been released on June 14, 2025. The NEET 2025 cutoff or the qualifying score for each candidate category is mentioned on the NEET 2025 scorecard. The NEET cutoff refers to the minimum score a candidate has to obtain to qualify for the NEET counselling process. The NEET cutoff 2025 decreased from that of last year as the difficulty level of the exam was higher and thenumber of test takers was lower.
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NEET 2025 Cutoff percentile
NEET 2025 Cutoff score
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