Aspirants leave the examination centre after appearing for the NEET-UG entrance examination.
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No candidate has achieved a perfect score in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG) exam this year according to the National Testing Agency (NTA), which declared the results on Saturday.
Students said the NEET (UG) 2025 question paper was tougher than in the previous years, which reflected in the candidates’ scores. While 17 candidates scored 720 out of 720 in 2024, this year, Mahesh Kumar of Rajasthan, who secured the All India Rank (AIR)-1, scored 686/720 (99.999547 percentile).
Utkarsh Awadhiya of Madhya Pradesh has secured the second place, while Krishang Joshi of Maharashtra and Mrinal Kishore Jha of Delhi finished third and fourth, respectively.
Only one female candidate made it to the top 10 ranks this year. Avika Aggarwal of the National Capital Territory of Delhi is the female topper of this year’s NEET (UG). She has secured AIR-5.
The top 10 ranks were dominated by General Category students from Delhi, Gujarat, Punjab, and Maharashtra. In the NEET (UG) 2025 results, Delhi leads with the highest number of candidates in the all India top 10 list.
This year, a total of 22,76,069 candidates registered for the exam, out of which 22,09,318 candidates appeared for the exam. A total of 12,36,531 candidates have qualified the medical entrance examination.
Out of the total number of candidates who have passed the exam, 5,14,063 are male candidates, and 7,22,462 are female candidates.
Seventeen candidates among the top 100 are from Delhi, 14 are from Rajasthan, 11 from Maharashtra, nine candidates each are from Gujarat and Punjab, among others.
States, including Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana, and Madhya Pradesh, also have candidates in the top 100.
In the tally of States with the maximum number of successful candidates, Uttar Pradesh has more than 1.70 lakh candidates qualifying, while 1.25 lakh candidates from Maharashtra have cleared the exam.
The NTA organises NEET for admission to medical colleges every year. A total of 1,08,000 seats in private and government medical colleges are available for the MBBS course.
The NEET is a standardised, national-level entrance exam for undergraduate medical courses in India. Specifically, it’s used for admission to MBBS, BDS, AYUSH, and other medical and paramedical programmes, in both government and private institutions.
Published – June 14, 2025 02:08 pm IST
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