NEET

Your 79.30 percentile standing and position as 486000 in the BC category makes it difficult to secure admission to private medical institutions through NEET. Reservation based on the BC category provides an opportunity to enter low-rank private medical colleges. The annual management quota fees in private medical colleges fall between INR 15 Lacs and INR 25 lakhs. The previous year cutoff data indicates KIMS, Bangalore and Sree Balaji Medical College in Chennai could be suitable options because their percentile marks were between 75-80.

Your score of 580 in NEET coupled with EWS category membership makes it probable for you to secure admission to a Government Medical College (GMC) in Maharashtra. According to last year's cutoff data the GMC admission marks in Maharashtra lay between 557-571 for candidates from the general category. Taking into account EWS category reservations of 10% the competitive cutoff requirements for GMC Gondia and GMC Nandurbar will likely accept your score of 580. 

The score of 622 in NEET provides you with an excellent opportunity to enroll in a government MBBS college in Maharashtra. The cutoff range for governmental institutions in Maharashtra fluctuates yet last year general category students needed between 590 and 650 marks to enroll . The 620-630 marks cutoff area served as admission criteria for exceptional medical students seeking education at Grant Medical College, Mumbai as well as Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai . Your scored marks are likely to secure admission to a government medical institution of quality.

Given your 536 marks from NEET under the general category in Uttar Pradesh you hold reasonable opportunities to secure a spot in a government BDS college. The cutoff for BDS admission in government colleges across UP during the 2022 NEET counseling period reached between 520-550 marks among general category students. The entrance score requirement to study BDS at King George's Medical University, Lucknow reached 543 marks but Saraswati Dental College, Lucknow accepted applicants with 529 marks. Your score places you at a strong position to obtain admission to a BDS programme in any government institution. 

Every year, the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) conducts the NEET UG counselling based on the NEET UG scores of the applicants applying for BDS admission to IMS BHU under the All-India Quota. Students can click here to know the NEET UG counselling dates for IMS BHU BDS admission.

No, the NEET exam or NEET question paper does not have any optional questions. Although there used to be 20 optional questions in total in between the years 2022 and 2024, but 2025 onwards, the optional questions in NEET were removed as part of the revision or change in the NEET exam pattern as per the pre-COVID era. Hence, the NEET 2025 question paper will not carry any optional questions, and will have 360 mandatory questions from Physics, Chemistry and Biology.  

The mode of the NEET exam is offline or paper-based mode. Candidates are handed over hardcopy of NEET question paper and OMR sheets to answer the questions. The NEET UG exam has always been conducted in paper-pencil-based mode. Despite the expert committee recommendation to conduct the NEET exam in onlne or computer-based mode, the National Medical Commission (NMC) announced that the NEET 2025 exam will be conducted in offline or paper-pencil-based mode. 

The Biology section has the highest number of questions in the NEET examination. There are 360 questions in the NEET UG exam and of these, 90 questions are alone from Biology, which is further divided into Botany and Zoology, each containing 45 questions.

Army College of Medical Sciences offers a 4.5 years MBBS programme to the students. This programme is for students who want to build a career in the field of Medicine and Health Sciences. For admission to MBBS programme at Army College of Medical Sciences, aspirants must have a valid NEET UG score.