NERIST Entrance Exam (NEE) 2025: Exam Date (OUT), Application Form, Syllabus, Exam Pattern, Question Paper

The NERIST Entrance Examination (NEE) is an annual entrance exam. It is conducted in offline  mode and is held across North Eastern States (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, Nagaland, Mizoram, Sikkim, and Tripura). It is conducted by North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST) for admission of shortlisted candidates into  BTech, BTech LE, BSc (Hons) in Forestry, and certificate courses. 

NEE-I, NEE-II and NEE-III are held for admission to certificate courses, BTech & BSc (Hons) in Forestry, and BTech Lateral Entry respectively. The NEE-II is conducted with a single question paper of 150 marks of three hours duration. NEE-II (PCM) is held for Students aspiring to take admission in BTech courses and NEE-II (PCB) is for Students seeking admission to BSc (Hons) in Forestry. Students who qualify NEE, have to appear for the counselling rounds conducted by NERIST for admission.

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Students can check below the important details of NEE:

The NERIST NEE admission process 2025 has the following steps - 

• Register for the exam
• Download hall ticket
• Appearing for the N.E.R.I.S.T. entrance exam 2025
• Declaration of the NEE 2025 result
• Appearing for Counselling process
• Reporting to the college after seat allotment

Students can check below the eligibility to apply for NEE:

Age limit: Maximum Age as of 31st July for current academic year is 23 years for students from general category (GE) (born on or after 1st August 2002), for OBC and female applicants (born on or after 1st August 1999) it is 26 years and for ST/SC/PD (born on or after 1st August 1997) it is and 28 years.

Academic qualification: Academic Qualifications for different schemes/modes of NEE-II:

• NEE-II (PCM): Applicants must have passed/appeared in 10+2/ Higher Secondary/Sr. Secondary with Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics (PCM).
• NEE-II (PCB): Applicants must have passed/appeared in 10+2/Higher Secondary/Sr. Secondary with Physics, Chemistry and Biology (PCB).

The application form of NERIST NEE has been released. Students can apply online for NEE using the link on this page or from the university website. Note that the form must be filled out very carefully. After the final submission of the application form, no changes can be made by the applicant to their online application. A printout of the submitted complete Application form is to be retained with the candidate, which is to be submitted at the time of counselling/admission if selected.

How to fill out the NEE Form?

The entire process of filling online application form can be completed in below mentioned 9 steps:

• Registration: Register yourself for the online application process at the North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (Application Portal–www.neeonline.ac.in).
• Activation: Activate your online Application with the E-mail ID and Your Activation Code; send it your submitted Email ID/Mobile No in the registration process.
• Programme selection: Selection of the Program Type & Program Name and check eligibility.
• Filling the online form: If the applicant confirms the eligibility criteria and continues the Program, the next webpage appears. The applicant is required to click on “Application Details”. The application form will appear on the screen. The applicant is required to fill in the details in the application form.
• Uploading scanned images: In the next step, the applicant is required to upload scanned image files of their Photograph and Signature one by one (as specified in points 4 & 5 above).
• Fill academic details: In the next step, the applicant is required to fill in the Academic details.
• Choose exam centre: In the next step, the applicant is required to choose an Examination Centre preference.
• Review: Once all the details are filled in, the candidate is required to review the details entered and confirm. No edit will be allowed once the application is confirmed.
• Fee payment: Payment of fees through online.

Photo & Signature Upload in NEE Form

The scanned passport photo and signature should be:

• within 3.5 X 4.5 cm in size
• maximum 100 KB in size
•  ".JPEG/.JPG" format

NEE 2025 Application Fee

The application fee for NEE is as follows:

• INR 1500 for Gen/OBC/EWS
• INR 1000 for ST/SC/PH

Students can pay the fee using a Credit Card / Debit Card / Net Banking through the payment gateway available on the portal.

The NERIST prescribed the NEE II syllabus and mentions it in its official notification PDF. The syllabus is based on subjects - Physics, Chemistry and Maths for B.Tech aspirants and Physics, Chemistry and Biology for BSc (H) Forestry aspirants. Students preparing for the exam can refer to the below mentioned syllabus to get an idea of the subjects, topics and sub-topics on which the question paper will be based.

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• How to prepare for NEE 2025

As per the NERIST NEE exam pattern, the test is conducted in offline mode and students can answer the questions using OMR sheet. The total mark will be 150. The detailed exam pattern for NEE-II is shared here for candidate's reference:

The exam pattern for NEE-II (BSc H Forestry courses) is given below: