NEET (UG) 2026

Key facts from NTA's NEET (UG) 2026 information bulletin and result, with a marks calculator and a rank range from official data.

Calculators

Every tool follows the official rule and links its source.

NEET Marks CalculatorScore out of 720 with +4/−1 marking
NEET Marks vs RankRank range and cut-off from NTA data

Key facts

PatternPhysics 45, Chemistry 45, Biology 90: 180 compulsory questions, 720 marks, 3 hours, pen and paper
Marking+4 correct, −1 incorrect, 0 unanswered
Qualifying50th percentile (UR/EWS), 40th (SC, ST, OBC-NCL), 45th (UR/EWS PwBD), 40th (SC/ST/OBC PwBD)
2026 examHeld on 21 June 2026; result declared 16 July 2026
2026 result19,99,895 appeared, 11,21,185 qualified; cut-off 213 marks (UR/EWS), 177 (OBC, SC, ST)

Sources: NTA: Information Bulletin, NEET (UG) 2026; NTA key data points and result press release (16 July 2026). Checked 22 September 2026.

Three things to work out before you apply

What your answer sheet is worth. NEET (UG) paper has 180 questions for 720 marks, with 1 off for a wrong answer. The marks calculator works the score out section by section from the official answer key.

Qualifying is set by percentile, the cut-off mark follows from it. NTA fixes the qualifying standard as a percentile — 50th for UR/EWS, 40th for SC, ST and OBC-NCL — and the mark that corresponds to it is only known once every answer sheet has been scored. That is why the cut-off moves from year to year even though the paper is always out of 720.

All 180 questions are compulsory and the paper is taken on pen and paper in a single sitting, so there is no shift normalisation: your raw score out of 720 is your score. Work it out with the marks calculator, then see where it sits with marks vs rank.