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The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET UG) is the most important exam for students aspiring to pursue medical education in India. Students performance in the NEET UG exam is assessed through the subjects like Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. Securing a high percentile in NEET is crucial for getting admission to top medical colleges in India. A 99 percentile in NEET is considered an impressive achievement, but many students wonder “99 percentile in NEET means how many marks”? Read the full article to know comprehensive details about what it means to have a 99 percentile in NEET so that aspiring students get an idea of how many marks they might need to secure that percentile and get admission to their dream medical college.
The authority has activated the link for the NEET UG 2026 application form. Candidates can check the list of medical courses that require NEET UG 2026 score and rank below:
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A percentile is a relative measure that shows how a student performed in comparison to other students appeared in NEET exam. The percentile reflects the percentage of students who scored lower than the given score. For example, the 99 percentile in NEET means that the candidate has scored higher than 99% of all the candidates who appeared for the exam.
NEET UG consists of 180 questions, out of which 45 questions are asked from Physics, 45 from Chemistry, and 90 from Biology (with 45 questions each from Botany and Zoology). For each correct answer, 4 marks are given, while there is a 1 mark negative marking in NEET. This makes the total marks in NEET UG as 720 marks and the total score in NEET ranges from 0 to 720 marks.
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NTA conducted the NEET 2025 exam on May 4, 2025 and will release the result by June 14. The 99 percentile in NEET 2025 marks will be available once the NEET result is out. However, using the historical NEET marks vs percentile data, the expected marks with 99 percentile in NEET 2025 are provided below.
Percentile | NEET marks (out of 720) |
99+ | 600 - 720 |
90+ | 450 - 650 |
80+ | 350 - 450 |
70+ | 250 - 350 |
60+ | 200 - 250 |
50+ | 150 - 200 |
The marks corresponding to the 99 percentile in the NEET UG exam vary every year. This is mainly due to the various factors that affect the marks vs percentile. The historical NEET 99 percentile marks are provided in the table below.
Year | Percentile | Marks |
2024 | 99 | 600 - 720 |
2023 | 99 | 625 - 720 |
2022 | 99 | 610 - 715 |
2021 | 99 | 615 - 720 |
2020 | 99 | 616 - 720 |
The NEET percentile vs marks data can vary due to various factors. Some of the major factors affecting 99 percentile vs marks in NEET.
Difficulty level of the exam - If the NEET exam is relatively easy, more candidates may score high, so the chances of more students scoring the 99 percentile might be higher. Similarly, in a tougher exam, fewer candidates may score well, reducing the number of students scoring 99 percentile in NEET.
Number of appearing candidates - The NEET exam sees a large number of candidates each year, which impacts the percentile calculation. With more students taking the exam, the number of students scoring 99 percentile might increase.
The NEET percentile can be calculated in two ways - using marks and All India Rank. A brief overview of both methods is provided below.
The calculation of the percentile is based on the following formula -

Percentile = [(Total Number of Candidates - Your Rank) / Total Number of Candidates] * 100
On Question asked by student community
Hi Gawade,
please refer to this article -
https://medicine.careers360.com/articles/neet-ug-mock-tests
You can find the mock test link here
Government Medical Colleges in states like Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Punjab, Gujarat, Maharashtra
You still have enough time. For NEET 2026 (drop year, 3 months left), focus on:
NCERT linebyline for highweightage chapters (Human Physiology, Plant Physiology, Cell, Biomolecules, Biological Classification, Plant/Animal Kingdom, Genetics, Ecology)
Daily chapterwise MCQs + PYQs and weekly full mocks with proper analysis
Useful Careers360 links for planning:
NEET
The
NEET cut off 2025
for PwD (handicapped) candidates in Telangana was set at 40th percentile with 126 - 113 marks. Admission to government colleges in Telangana require higher marks as many as over 500 marks in NEET.
For more information, check the given below link.
https://medicine.careers360.com/articles/neet-cutoff-telangana
If a candidate qualifies for NEET PG only after the revision or reduction of the qualifying cut-off, registration for counselling is allowed only if the counselling authority opens a fresh registration or re-registration window for newly qualified candidates. If the system currently shows “you have not registered” and does not
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