NEET UG 2025: What are the changes this year, details on NTA’s notification

NEET UG 2025: New changes

Applicants desiring to get into a aesculapian assemblage for admittance to undergraduate aesculapian courses volition person to spell done the changes introduced this twelvemonth earlier filling the exertion form.

NEET UG pattern

NTA has discontinued the optional questions successful Section B of NEET UG 2025. Candidates taking the NEET UG successful 2025 volition not get immoderate optional questions and other clip introduced during Covid and exam volition present revert to the pre-COVID format. The optional conception was introduced arsenic a impermanent measurement to accommodate the challenges posed during Covid pandemic and has been successful signifier till 2024. NEET UG 2025 insubstantial volition present person 180 compulsory questions — 45 questions each successful physics and chemistry and 90 successful biology. The NEET UG 2025 exam volition beryllium held successful a single displacement successful pen and insubstantial mode.

NEET UG tie-breaking criteria 

As a first, NTA volition resoluteness ties done a random process with the guidance of an autarkic adept committee if each the provisions are exhausted. The tie-breaking criteria volition not see the NEET UG exertion fig and property this time. According to the NTA NEET UG 2025 accusation brochure, successful lawsuit of 2 oregon much candidates get adjacent marks oregon percentile scores successful the NEET UG 2025, the inter-se-merit volition beryllium determined arsenic follows:

a. Candidate obtaining higher marks oregon percentile people successful biology (botany and zoology) successful the test, followed by,
b. Candidate obtaining higher marks oregon percentile people successful chemistry successful the test, followed by,
c. Candidate obtaining higher marks oregon percentile people successful physics successful the test, followed by,
d. Candidate with little proportionality of the fig of attempted incorrect answers and close answers successful each the subjects successful the test,
e. Candidate with little proportionality of a fig of attempted incorrect answers and close answers successful biology (botany and zoology) successful the test, followed by
f. Candidate with little proportionality of a fig of attempted incorrect answers and close answers successful chemistry successful the test, followed by
g. Candidate with little proportionality of a fig of attempted incorrect answers and close answers successful physics successful the test, followed by
h. In case, a-g criteria are exhausted and necktie inactive persists, it volition beryllium resolved done a random process with the guidance of an autarkic adept committee.

NTA NEET UG exam centre

While filling up the NEET UG 2025 online exertion form, candidates volition person to prime 3 cities arsenic their prime of cities for the exam centre successful bid of their priority. Choice of centre cities volition beryllium constricted to the authorities of imperishable code oregon authorities of contiguous code only. For convenience, the candidates whitethorn prime their ain metropolis oregon neighbouring cities successful their authorities of residence lone and not for acold distant cities successful different states.

Exam timing and reporting time

The NEET UG 2025 exam centre volition beryllium opened 3 hours earlier the commencement of the test. No campaigner shall beryllium allowed to participate the exam centre aft 1.30 pm. Exams volition beryllium conducted from 2 p.m. to 5 pm.

Photo upload rule

During the NEET UG 2025 application, candidates volition person to upload scanned images of their caller passport size photograph taken aft January 1, 2025. In summation to the scanned images of the passport sized photo, the signature, near and close manus fingers and thumb impression, citizenship certificate (if applicable), societal class certificate/ applied for application, Class 10 marksheet and Class 10 passing certificate oregon equivalency certificate(s) for conversion of CGPA oregon grades, successful percent arsenic besides duly indicating day of commencement and PwBD and PwD certificate volition besides person to beryllium uploaded.

The NEET UG 2025 scores and merit database volition besides use for admissions to BDS and BVSC and AH courses successful summation to admittance to UG courses successful each of the disciplines – BAMS, BUMS and BSMS courses of the Indian System of Medicine successful each aesculapian institutions. Admission to the BHMS people nether the National Commission for Homeopathy volition besides beryllium done connected the ground of NEET UG scores.

MNS (Military Nursing Service) aspirants seeking admittance to BSc Nursing courses being conducted astatine Armed Forces Medical Service Hospitals for the twelvemonth 2025 are required to suffice for NEET UG. The NEET UG people volition beryllium utilized for shortlisting for enactment to the four-year BSc Nursing course.