The Eligibility Criteria for NEET UG with The Integrated Syllabus

The Eligibility Criteria for NEET UG

Candidates interested in appearing for the NEET UG need to fulfill certain eligibility criteria. Those who fail to meet these criteria are not eligible for the test under any circumstances.

• Age of the candidate must be 17 years on or before December 31 of the year of admission for MBBS or BDS course.
• Indian nationals, Non-Resident Indians (NRIs), Overseas Citizens of India (OCIs), Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs) and foreign nationals are also eligible to appear for NEET UG.
• No upper age limit for NEET UG as ruled by the Supreme Court in 2017.
• Candidate must have passed the subjects—Physics, Chemistry, Biology/Biotechnology, and English individually, and must have obtained a minimum aggregate of 50% marks in Physics, Chemistry and Biology/Biotechnology in the qualifying examination.
• Candidates who belong to the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe or Other Backward Class categories must have obtained a minimum aggregate of 40% in Physics, Chemistry and Biology/Biotechnology.
• For candidates with locomotor disability of lower limbs, a minimum of 45% marks for General-Physically handicapped (PH), 40% marks for Scheduled Castes(SC) PH/Scheduled Tribe(ST)-PH/Other Backward classes(OBC)-PH are required.
• Candidates appearing for their class XII examination in the year of appearing for NEET UG can also appear for the entrance test provisionally, subject to fulfillment of the qualifying criteria upon result declaration.
• Students from Jammu and Kashmir are not eligible for the 15% All India Quota seats, as the state has opted out of the NEET UG All-India Scheme since its inception.

NEET UG Reservation of Seats as per category in government medical colleges under 15% All India Quota is:

The Integrated Syllabus

The syllabus for NEET UG examination is integrated and common for all candidates, irrespective of the board of higher secondary education they have studied from. This syllabus is prescribed by the Medical CounciI of India (MCI) for NEET UG and NEET UG PG. It is also available at www.mciindia.org. Due to the integrated and common syllabus, the burden on aspirants has fairly reduced as students earlier had to prepare a vast syllabus for the various medical entrance examinations. The integrated and common syllabus also provides uniformity in the evaluation process. It checks the competency level of candidates all across India based on the same parameters. The NEET examination is conducted in ten regional languages—Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu to facilitate candidates who have completed their higher secondary education in vernacular medium. In NEET 2018, around 80% of candidates preferred writing in English, 11% in Hindi, 4.31% chose to write it in Gujarati, 3% wrote in Bengali and 1.86% in Tamil. Candidates opting for regional languages are provided with a Bilingual Test Booklet in the selected regional language and English.

The NEET UG syllabus is prepared after reviewing various syllabi maintained in state boards as well as those prepared by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), Council Board of School Education (COBSE), and the National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT). It is strictly based on the topics covered in class XI and class XII across Physics, Chemistry, and Biology.

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