NEET UG – 2024 Results Declared! Shocking Marks vs Ranks!!

On 4th June Evening, NTA has declared the NEET UG 2024 Results. The press release can be accessed at NEET (UG) – 2024 Results Press Release

We have a mind boggling 67 students who got 720/720! YES 67 Students!!! on AIR 1.

If you see my post on AIIMS Cutoffs, AIIMS – MBBS Admissions 2023-24 : Cut Off Ranks & Marks, you will realize that this year even if one has scored 720/720, they may not secure an admission into AIIMS Delhi!! A rude shock to so many students and parents.

A quick comparison of this years Marks vs Ranks Data (approximate ranks only as NTA did not release marks data) with last 4 years is presented in the table below, based on the data I have collected in the last 12 hours or so from my mentees and some coaching institutes. I am still collecting the data and I will come back with a more accurate and complete  Marks vs Ranks data shortly.

Needless to say, the cutoffs for Admissions in various colleges is going to increase drastically. Last year (2023) Medical Admission Cutoffs data summary is available in my posts:

MBBS Admissions 2023-24 : Top 30 Colleges (AIQ) Cut Off Ranks & Marks

Telangana Medical College MBBS Admissions – 2023: Cutoff Ranks & Marks

Karnataka Medical College MBBS Admissions – 2023: Cutoff Ranks & Marks

Maharashtra Govt. Medical College MBBS Admissions – 2023: Cutoff Ranks & Marks

The competition for medical studies in India is increasing year after year and the preparation strategy has to alter accordingly.

BEST WISHES to all NEET UG 2025, 2026 Aspirants for your Preparation!

VRN Rao

NEET 2024 Exam – Biology Section – Mapping to NCERT Textbooks

Dear Aspirants of NEET 2025, NEET 2026

NEET 2024 Examination was completed on 5th May 2024.

The official question papers and answer keys are yet to be released. However, most of the coaching institutes have already released the question papers and their version of the answer keys.

The paper is moderately difficult than the 2023 paper. However, with a huge increase in the number of students who have appeared for the exam this year as compared to all the previous years, the marks vs rank may have some surprises. We still may have 720/720 as the topper! 10,000 Rank at 650 Marks, and so on! Many coaching institutes have already started declaring that they have more than 2 or 3 students who may score 720/720!!

Year after Year (for Seven consecutive years now 2017 to 2023), I came out with my blog posts to showcase how important the NCERT Biology textbooks are, by mapping the NEET Question papers Biology Section questions to NCERT Biology textbooks. 

The mapping exercises that I had done for the 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2017 Biology Section of the Question Paper, can be accessed from the following posts.

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NEET 2023 Exam – Biology Section – Mapping to NCERT Textbooks

NEET 2022 Exam – Biology Section – Mapping to NCERT Textbooks

NEET 2021 Exam – Biology Section – Mapping to NCERT Textbooks

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Now coming to the 2024 Question paper mapping. As always, I went to Allen Institutes portal to pick up the Biology paper of this years NEET exam. To my surprise, Allen has done a tremendous job of Mapping all the 90 Questions to the NCERT Books, Class and Page Number!! 

Please check the Biology paper (Code – Q6) on the Allen Portal. NEET 2024 Biology Paper with Solutions

So Dear Aspirants please ensure that the NCERT Biology text books of classes XI and XII and Exemplar books are your true companion in your pursuit of NEET Examination Success!

If all 90 questions can be answered by just reading the NCERT books, one should start thinking as to why Lakhs of Rupees need to be spent on Coaching Classes, Extra Tuitions, Ed-Tech Platforms, Apps, etc. etc.!!

Best Wishes to all of you

VRN Rao

Karnataka Medical College MBBS Admissions – 2023: Cutoff Ranks & Marks

Like in all other states, in Karnataka too the MBBS admissions for the academic year 2023-24 are underway. The second round allotment list was made available on 6th Sep. The same can be accessed from this link –> UGNEET 2023 – Second Round Seat Allotment. It is nice to see that the annual course fees data for each college, has also been provided in this document.

One must remember that there are 93 Medical Colleges across the state of Karnataka, both Government and Private included, that participate in the common counselling process. In addition there are a few autonomous private colleges who have their own admission process.

I have picked up some 20 Government colleges across the state and 4 Private colleges in Bangalore, to study the opening and closing ranks for general category this year. I checked the marks scored in NEET 2023 for the closing ranks as well. The same has been summarized in the table below. Also, the closing ranks for the previous 2 years is also compiled into the table below.

The closing ranks data for all 3 years pertain to the end of Round 2 allotments. One can clearly see the increasing cutoffs, signaling the increasing competition and potentially brighter students as years are passing by. 

The data in the table below has been sorted on the 2023 Closing ranks.

Dear Medical aspirants from Karnataka of 2024 and 2025, do check these cutoffs and create your study strategy based on a target college you want to get admitted to.

Best Wishes to all of you

VRN Rao

Telangana Medical College MBBS Admissions – 2023: Cutoff Ranks & Marks

MBBS Admissions in Telangana are currently underway. The First phase counselling selection list has been released on 24th Aug 2023. The complete list can be accessed from this link –> Telangana MBBS 2023-24 – COLLEGE WISE ALLOTMENT LIST AFTER FIRST PHASE OF COUNSELLING

In this post, I am providing the Opening and Closing Ranks for all the Government colleges in Telangana and a few Private colleges in and around Hyderabad.

The following tables show the opening and closing All India NEET Ranks and also the corresponding State ranks as well. The marks for the closing ranks are also given here. Even though at the end of phase 2 the cutoffs may drop a little, it is better to use these cutoff rank and marks for target setting.

Compared to the previous 2 years, the cutoff marks have increased anywhere between 20 to 40 marks across the colleges!

OLD GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGES

GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGES opened in 2022

NEW GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGES opened in 2023

Few Private MEDICAL COLLEGES in and around Hyderabad

Some Hard Facts as food for thought for all Parents:

1. In the top 100 All India Ranks, there are only 3 Telangana students!
2. The highest opening rank of 62 stands at an All India Rank of 2043!
3. In the top 10,000 All India Ranks, there are only 318 Telangana students!
4. In the top 1,00,000 All India Ranks, there are only 3,959 Telangana students! (A mere 4% students)

So much for the HYPE that I see from the coaching institutes around me in Hyderabad!

Dear Aspirants, please do create your own study strategies to ace the NEET exam. 500 Marks would become a minimum to get some seat in a Telangana college. A good self study of all the syllabus, multiple rounds (4 to 5) of revision during the last 6 months before the exam and a good amount (25 to 30) of full length/full syllabus mock tests, can take you across the 500 marks target.

But if you want a Premier Govt college the Marks ask suddenly becomes 600+! Here the number of revision rounds and mock tests increases drastically, double the revision as compared to 500 target and double the amount of mock tests!!

Thanks to so many colleges in the state now, the situation is way better than many other states in the country. Make the best use of the opportunity.

You may also want to see my post from last year –> NEET UG 2023, 2024, 2025: Telangana State MBBS Aspirants – Inputs for your Study Strategy

Best Wishes

VRN Rao

Maharashtra Govt. Medical College MBBS Admissions – 2023: Cutoff Ranks & Marks

MBBS Admissions in Maharashtra are currently underway. The selection list for CAP Round 2 has been released on 29th Aug 2023, which is yesterday. The complete list can be accessed from this link –> Selection List – CAP Round 2

In this post, I am providing the Opening and Closing Ranks for the top Government colleges in Maharashtra.

All the students (especially those whom I have met in my Airoli seminar last week!) who are preparing for the NEET Exam 2024, 2025, can get more information from my earlier posts (Links given below). I presume all of you (from Airoli seminar) have completed the benchmark test to set your target colleges and marks. I would be meeting you again sometime during September 2023.

NEET 2022 – Maharashtra State Ranks & MBBS Admission Cutoffs

AIIMS – MBBS Admissions 2023-24 : Cut Off Ranks & Marks

MBBS Admissions 2023-24 : Top 30 Colleges (AIQ) Cut Off Ranks & Marks

Coming to the opening and closing ranks at the end of round 2 this year. The table below gives you the details of not only this year, but the previous 2 years as well. One can clearly see how competitive the NEET exam is becoming in Maharashtra.

The data in the table below is sorted on the 2023 closing ranks. For any Govt. college seat in Mumbai/Thane, the minimum marks required are 630, an increase of almost 25 marks over the last 2 years. 

Best Wishes to all of you for your preparations.

VRN Rao

MBBS Admissions 2023-24 : Top 30 Colleges (AIQ) Cut Off Ranks & Marks

NEET UG – 2024 Results Declared! Shocking Marks vs Ranks!!

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For AIIMS 2023-24 Cutoff Ranks and Marks, please check my latest post: –> AIIMS – MBBS Admissions 2023-24 : Cut Off Ranks & Marks

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We are in the middle of Medical Admissions to the various Medical institutes, across the country. Medical Counseling Committee’s (MCC) portal (MBBS UG Counselling) gives all information regarding the admissions pertaining to the All India Quota Admissions.

A 650+ score has now become an absolute, to secure a decent Government Medical College admission under the All India Quota admissions done by MCC. The top 30 medical colleges opening and closing ranks along with the marks of the closing rank is summarized in the table below for your quick reference (sorted on closing ranks of 2023).

The state wise counselling for the MBBS admissions are still underway in most of the states in India. I will come back with some state quota admissions data in my next posts.

Best Wishes to all NEET 2024, 2025 Aspirants!

VRN Rao

AIIMS – MBBS Admissions 2023-24 : Cut Off Ranks & Marks

NEET UG – 2024 Results Declared! Shocking Marks vs Ranks!!

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Updated on 18th Aug 2023 after Round 2 Allocations.

NEET 2023 examination was successfully completed, results declared and history created yet again! The Marks vs Rank Data from 2023 results can be found at my earlier post –> : NEET 2023 – Rank Vs Marks & Marks vs Rank

The Medical Admissions for the various Medical institutes (All India Quota, AIIMS, JIPMER), across the country have just about started. Medical Counseling Committee’s (MCC) portal –> (MBBS UG Counselling) gives all information regarding the admissions pertaining to the All India Quota, AIIMS & JIPMER  Admissions.

Second Round Seat Allotment has been announced by MCC on 18th August (today) afternoon. The AIIMS 2023-24 Admissions – Opening Rank and Closing Rank data (for General Category) in the round 2, is summarized in the table below for your quick reference. Cutoff Marks increased across the AIIMS colleges.

The data in the above table is sorted based on 2023 closing ranks. Also, the marks for the closing ranks in 2023 is given here.

The closing ranks marks data for the year 2022 can be found in my earlier post –> AIIMS + Top 35 UG Medical Colleges – MBBS Admissions 2022-23 : Cut Off Ranks & Marks

The state wise counselling for the MBBS admissions are just about beginning in most of the states in India. I will come back with AIQ admissions data in the top Medical colleges in the country and some state quota admissions data in my next posts.

Best Wishes to all NEET 2024, 2025 Aspirants!

VRN Rao

NEET 2023 – Rank Vs Marks & Marks vs Rank

NEET 2024 – Marks Vs Ranks Initial Data!! NEET UG – 2024 Results Declared! Shocking Marks vs Ranks!!

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Check my latest post: –> AIIMS – MBBS Admissions 2023-24 : Cut Off Ranks & Marks

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NTA has declared the NEET UG 2023 results and by now everyone has seen the “Rank Inflation” (term borrowed from the social media)! As mentioned in an earlier post, this is primarily due to the effect of 1 Bonus Question and for 2 Questions multiple options have been considered as correct. Bonus question marks have been given to all the candidates. But, for the 2 Questions where multiple options are correct, marks are given to only those candidates who have marked either of the correct options. Other who have marked the wrong options, or who have not answered did not get the marks. Due to this, the marks have been increased anywhere between 4 and 15, for all candidates. This has created the skew in the Rank vs Marks trend (“Rank Inflation”) this year as compared to the previous years.

IITs conducting the JEE Advanced exam do come out with a very comprehensive report every year, in which all the Rank vs Marks data is also given. NTA does not come out with such a report. They just do a small press release. So to collect the Ranks and corresponding marks, one has to depend on the coaching institutes data, data in print, electronic and social media. It may take a couple of weeks to get very accurate data. However, I wanted to publish a first draft of the data that I have collected so far.

Essentially as an input for all the 2024, 2025 aspirants whom I am mentoring so that they can fine tune their study strategy. Away from the skew in the data that got created because of the Bonus marks, one can still see the fierce competition for the medical admissions.

I can only imagine the hard work that these aspirants are putting in to get the near perfect scores not only in Biology but also in Chemistry and Physics. I will not be surprised if some of these top rankers would have done some 8 to 10 rounds of revision and 100+ mock tests during their preparations in the last 2+ years. Along with AIIMS Delhi, the top medical colleges in the country would be out of reach if one does not do such preparation. 

In the last 24 hours, I had to answer questions like, “Is this a healthy competition”?, “Why such pressure on students”?, “Why such an easy paper”?, “Why can’t the paper be a little more difficult”?, etc. I may have to write a series of posts altogether just to answer these questions, based on the discussions I do with students and parents.

The key input I give to the students and parents in my one-one discussions is, Set a realistic college target first based on the past year cutoffs, which gives them a range of marks target and one which they feel can be achieved based on their capability. Over the years, I have only seen these students outperforming their own targets and without all the pressure that is out there.

Coming back to the Rank vs Marks data of NEET 2023, the table below shows the last 4 years trend of Rank vs Marks. (Table updated on 3rd July 2023)

When I was collating the data for the above table, I realised that one has to consider the Marks vs Rank data as well. On the same mark, there is a huge bunching of candidates and due to the tie breaking rules of NTA, the ranks could be different. The table below shows the last 4 years trend of Marks vs Rank.

I tried to collect the last rank data on a specific mark. In the 2020, 21, 22 data there can be a +10 addition to the rank at some marks.

The 2023 data in both the above tables would be updated, once the state wise rank lists get released in the next 3 to 4 weeks.

For the benefit of the 2023 candidates who are looking for the colleges cutoff data, please refer to my following posts where the cutoffs data is available.

AIIMS + Top 35 UG Medical Colleges – MBBS Admissions 2022-23 : Cut Off Ranks & Marks

NEET 2022 – Maharashtra State Ranks & MBBS Admission Cutoffs

NEET UG 2023, 2024, 2025: Telangana State MBBS Aspirants – Inputs for your Study Strategy

Best Wishes to all 2023 candidates for your Admissions and 2024, 2025 aspirants for your NEET Exam.

VRN Rao

NEET UG – 2023 Results Declared!

On 13th June late night, NTA has declared the NEET UG 2023 Results. The press release can be accessed at NEET (UG) – 2023 Results Press Release

As mentioned in my post NEET UG – 2023: An Unexpected Marks Vs Ranks in Store; the unexpected did happen!!

We have 2 students who got 720/720! 4 students from Tamilnadu in the Top 10 Ranks, including the AIR 1! Great to see this performance from Tamilnadu students, in the midst of all noise around NEET in that state.

At 700 marks, the rank in 2022 was around 100. Now, in 2023 at 700 Marks the rank is around 325+.

At 650 marks, the rank in 2022 was around 4,670. Now, in 2023 at 650 marks, the rank is around 7,275+.

I will come back with a complete  Marks vs Ranks data shortly.

Needless to say, the cutoffs for Admissions in various colleges is going to increase drastically. The competition for medical studies in India is increasing year after year and the preparation strategy has to alter accordingly.

BEST WISHES to all NEET UG 2024, 2025 Aspirants for your Preparation!

VRN Rao

NEET UG – 2023: An Unexpected Marks Vs Ranks in Store

In my post NEET 2023 Exam – Biology Section – Mapping to NCERT Textbooks , based on the unofficial Answer Keys from Coaching Institutes, I mentioned that 720/720 may not happen this year. 

Now with the official answer key from NTA (NEET UG 2023 PROVISIONAL ANSWER KEY – DATE OF EXAM – 07.05.2023 )announcing 1 BONUS question for everyone and 2 questions with two options as correct, the scenario of Marks vs Ranks is going to totally change.

There would certainly be at least one 720/720 score, if not more. Also, ranks for 700 marks and above itself are going to go through the roof. It seems that the overall Marks vs Ranks trend would beat the previous 4 years trend.

With the results round the corner, one may want to quickly check the last 4 years Marks vs Ranks trend, which can be seen in my post NEET 2022 Marks Vs Rank & Inputs for NEET 2023, 2024 Preparation Strategy.

BEST WISHES to all NEET UG 2023 Aspirants for your Results!

VRN Rao