NEET Eligibility

As per the NEET 2025 eligibility criteria, the minimum age limit of candidates should be 17 years. Hence, candidates must be born by December 31, 2008, in order to be eligible to appear for NEET 2025, which was scheduled for May 4, 2025, for the academic year 2025-26. Any NEET aspirant who is born beyond this date, will not be eligible for NEET 2025, and should prepare to appear next year. 

The NEET 2024 score of 440 enables qualified admission to government college programs for BDS, BAMS, BHMS, and BNYS degrees across West Bengal. College acceptance scores for the medical programs vary by institution yet government institutions typically require outcomes between 350-450 marks . West Bengal maintains 19 government medical institutions which distribute 3150 MBBS seats through the admission procedures directed by West Bengal Medical Counseling Committee (WBMCC) 

Yes, you are eligible for NEET UG being an ST category candidate. You should have passed 12th Class with the subjects Physics, Chemistry and Biology and minimum of 40% aggregate marks of these subjects taken together. Your aggregate scores of 39 in Biology, 40 in Physics and 40 in Chemistry are meeting the eligibility criterion as overall aggregate for the ST candidate require only 40%. And you must score at least 40 percent in every subject for all eligibility to be fulfilled

You should either have completed or be completing 17 years of age as of 31st December 2025, to be eligible to write the NEET UG 2025 exam. That means, to be eligible for NEET-UG 2025, you should have been born on or before 31/12/2008.

A candidate must of at least 17 years as of December 31 of the academic year. Unless candidates meet the lower age limit criterion, they would not be considered eligible to appear for NEET for the particular year. The other factors of eligibility include studying Physics, Chemistry and Biology as core subjects.

To be eligible for NEET, candidates must fulfil criteria set by the National Testing Agency (NTA). For eligibility in NEET, you must have at least 50% aggregate marks in your 12th board examination in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology (PCB) in case you are a candidate from the general category. However, if you fall under the reserved category SC/ST/OBC then the minimum percentage required is 40%. You would score 45 in Physics, 48 in Chemistry, and 46 in Biology. Your PCB percentage comes out to be less than 50%, which puts you out of the contention list for NEET unless you belong to some sort of reserved category.

Before,  if aspirants didn't take biology in Class 12, aspirants couldn't apply for NEET. But now applicants with the PCM (Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics) background in their 11th and 12th grades have the opportunity to pursue a medical career.

The National Medical Commission (NMC) has reformed the eligibility criteria for the NEET-UG examination, allowing class XII students without biology in their core subject combination to apply for the test. 

To sit for the NEET 2024, you must have satisfying the general requirement by the National Testing Agency (NTA). When applying for the general category candidate, you need to have passed PCB with 50% and overall aggregate of 50%. However, with regard to PCB percentage you stand below the cut off with 47% and the overall percentage of 57% you are not eligible to appear for NEET 2024. You might return for the Class 12 exams to have better marks or you might also opt for other fields of work.