NEW DELHI: A total of 12,36,531 candidates, the majority of them women, have cleared the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) UG 2025 Entrance Test. Rajasthan’s Mahesh Kumar has secured the All India Rank 1 with a percentile of 99.9999547.
Those who cleared the exam account for 55.96% of the overall figure of 22,09,318 aspirants who appeared for the exam on May 4. This also marks a significant dip of 79,322 candidates over the figure that qualified for NEET 2024.
The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Saturday made public the results of this qualifier for the MBBS and other allied undergraduate medical degrees (BAMS, BUMS, BSMG and BHMS)
A total of 7,22,462 women and 5,14,063 men and six transgenders figure among the successful candidates.
The exam was conducted in 13 languages in 552 cities in India and 14 cities abroad, including Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Muscat and Singapore.
Topper Kumar is closely followed by Utkarsh Awadhiya of Madhya Pradesh (99.9999095) who bagged the second rank while Krishang Joshi of Maharashtra is ranked AIR 3 with a percentile of 99.9998189. National Capital Territory (NCT) Delhi’s Avika Aggarwal with a percentile of 99.9996832, who has secured a NEET rank of 5, is the topper among women candidates.
The maximum candidates who are successful are from UP with 1,70,684. The other States that figure in the top five are Maharashtra 1,25,727, Rajasthan 1,19,865, Karnataka 83,582 and Bihar 90954.
Delhi NCT has 14 individuals among the top 100 ranks while Rajasthan has 14, Maharashtra has 11, Karnataka and Telangana have 7, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh have 6 while MP and UP have three rankholders each.
Among those who sailed through the Entrance are 5,64,611 from the OBC category, 3,38,728 from the General, 1,68,873 from the SC, 67,234 from the ST and 97,085 from the economically weaker sections.
Those who took the exam in English were the most successful with 18,22,410 candidates making the cut while the second successful set was those who took the exam in Hindi with 3,28,634 clearing it.
A total of 606 Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) were successful in the NEET exam, while 405 NRIs and 529 foreign nationals made it.