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

NERIST Entrance Examination (NEE) is an offline entrance exam held across the North Eastern States (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, and Tripura). This entrance exam is conducted by the North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST) for admission to  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 candidates aspiring to take admission in BTech courses and NEE-II (PCB) is for candidates seeking admission to BSc (Hons) in Forestry. Candidates who qualify NEE, have to appear for the counselling rounds conducted by NERIST for admission.

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Candidates can check below the important details of NEE:

The admission process for NEE 2025 is as follows:

• Step 1: Register for NEE 2025: To begin with, aspirants need to register for the NEE exam.

• Step 2: Download NEE 2025 Admit Card: NEE admit cards can be downloaded from the official website. To download the same, aspirants will need their login details.

• Step 3: Appear for the Nerist entrance exam 2025: NEE is conducted in offline mode. Aspirants are advised to follow all the instructions for the exam as given on the admit card.
• Step 4: Check NEE 2025 exam result: NEE result is declared on the official website.

• Step 5: Appear for NEE 2025 Counselling: Aspirants who clear the exam need to appear for NEE counselling, as per the schedule.

⇒ Fill NERIST NEE Application Form 2025

Candidates can check below the eligibility to apply for NEE:

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

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. Candidates 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:

1. Registration: Register yourself for the online application process at the North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (Application Portal–www.neeonline.ac.in).
2. 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.
3. Programme selection: Selection of the Program Type & Program Name and check eligibility.
4. 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.
5. 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).
6. Fill academic details: In the next step, the applicant is required to fill in the Academic details.
7. Choose exam centre: In the next step, the applicant is required to choose an Examination Centre preference.
8. 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.
9. 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

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

The NEE-II syllabus is prescribed by NERIST. The syllabus includes Physics, Chemistry and Maths for BTech aspirants and Physics, Chemistry and Biology for BSc (H) Forestry aspirants.

The topics in the NEE syllabus are as follows:

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• How to prepare for NEE 2025

NEE is held in offline mode. Candidates have to answer the questions using the OMR sheet. The total mark in the exam is 150. The exam pattern for NEE-II is as follows:

 The exam pattern for NEE-II (BTech courses) is given below:

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