BHUBANESWAR: Snehasis Das has emerged as the state topper in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test UG (NEET-UG)-2025, results of which were declared by the National Testing Agency (NTA) on Saturday. With a percentile of 99.997, Das has secured an all-India rank (AIR) of 60.
Rajasthan’s Mahesh Kumar secured AIR-1 with a percentile of 99.9999547. Kumar was closely followed by Utkarsh Awadhiya of Madhya Pradesh (99.9999095) who bagged the second rank while Krishang Joshi of Maharashtra was ranked AIR-3 with a percentile of 99.9998189. National Capital Territory (NCT) Delhi’s Avika Aggarwal with a percentile of 99.9996832, who secured AIR-5, was the topper among women candidates.
Das is a student of DPS-Kalinga and this was his first attempt at NEET-UG. The 18-year-old is keen on joining the All India Institute of Medical Sciences at New Delhi. “I used to give six to seven hours everyday towards self-study and also went through coaching here. The mock test analysis was an important part of my preparations,” he said. Keen on pursuing medical science from an early age, Das said he had started his preparations after clearing Class X.
Five other students from Odisha have also bagged ranks in different categories. Pabitra Sethi has scored 99.99 percentile to secure a NEET rank of 180. He is among the top-10 in SC category nationally. Similarly, two differently-abled girls Baishali Moharana and Saima Mirza have secured first and fifth ranks respectively in the list of top-5 female candidates in Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PwBD) category in the country. While Baishali has scored 99.05 percentile with NEET rank of 20,496, Saima got 98.45 percentile and a rank of 33,389.
In the same category for males, Raghunath Behera and Durbadala Meher have scored third and fifth ranks respectively. While Behera’s percentile is 99.79 with 4,478 rank, Meher scored 7,007 rank with 99.67 percentile.
Across the country, 22,09,318 students appeared for the entrance examination, the majority of them women, and 12,36,531 qualified. Those who cleared the examination account for 55.96 per cent 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. 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.
Around 59,238 students of Odisha had appeared for the test and 31,673 qualified. This is a slight dip in the number of students qualifying for NEET-UG compared to last year when 32,557 students had qualified.