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Choosing the right NEET coaching institute is important for medical aspirants aiming for top ranks in the NEET UG exam. After the result, several coaching centres claim exceptional results. It's essential to identify which institute truly excels at producing All India Rank (AIR) toppers. Exploring the leading coaching centres and comparing and analysing their track record will help determine which one is dominant in producing the top ranks in NEET exam. Did you know that by November 2021, the National Medical Commission reported that 13,01,319 allopathic doctors registered with various state councils and the NMC.
Can you believe the numbers? Can you guess what could be the volume of students applying for the coveted MBBS degree? All the candidates aspiring to pursue an MBBS have to appear and qualify for the very competitive National Eligibility cum Entrance Test- NEET exam. The road to qualifying for medical admission is a long and arduous one. So who is training NEET aspirants to pull through this competition? Where do they train for the exam? Like the JEE, NEET coaching is also extremely competitive and requires a lot of hard work.
Careers360 undertook an immersive study of NEET AIR toppers and their coaching institutes. Let’s take a look at some numbers and understand this mania of the medical profession in detail.
Our analysis shows that in just two years there has been an increase of almost 30 per cent in the number of students who registered for NEET UG. Out of the registered candidates only 53-55 per cent students qualify the test.
NEET UG | Registered | Appeared | Qualified |
| 2024 | 24,06,079 | 2333297 | 13,15,853 |
2023 | 20,87,462 | 20,24,390 | 11,45,976 |
2022 | 18,72,343 | 17,64,571 | 9,93,069 |
2021 | 16,14,777 | 15,44,275 | 8,70,074 |
Now let’s come to the core of these numbers. The top NEET coaching institutes and the findings of our research and analysis are listed below for the ease of our readers’ understanding.
Number of toppers In Coaching centres For NEET UG 2024
| Ranks | Aakash | ALLEN | Sri Chaitanya | Narayana | Others |
AIR 1 | 21 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 23 |
Number of toppers In Coaching centres For NEET UG 2023
| Ranks | Aakash | ALLEN | Sri Chaitanya | Narayana | Others |
Top 10 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Top 50 | 30 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 8 |
Top 100 | 57 | 0 | 16 | 10 | 24 |
Top 1000 | 385 | 331 | 110 | 48 | 414 |
The table above is a clear indicator that Aakash Institute is among the top favourites for NEET coaching among medical aspirants. Not only does the institute have the highest number of students who signed up for coaching at their over 200 centres across India, they have the highest number of AIR toppers as well.
The other institutes have under 50 centres in India, some even less than 50. For Aakash Institute, 75 per cent of the toppers in NEET 2023 among the top 1,000 had taken classroom coaching. Around 57.4 per cent students from Allen Career Institute; 63.64 per cent from Sri Chaitanya; 77.1 per cent from Narayana and almost all students from rest of the coaching institutes took classroom coaching. These numbers underline the fact that classroom coaching is the most favourite and most effective for students.
Now let’s look at some diversity stats for the medical entrance exam. As per NEET UG data for 2022 and 2023, 43 - 44 per cent candidates were boys and the rest were girl candidates and just a handful of them are transgenders. This boys-girls ratio remains almost the same for both the registered candidates as well as the qualified candidates.
Gender-wise registered, appeared and Qualified Candidates of NEET
Gender | NEET(UG)-2022 | NEET(UG)-2023 | ||||
Registered | Appeared | Qualified | Registered | Appeared | Qualified | |
Male | 807538 (43%) | 763545 | 429160 (43%) | 902936 (43%) | 881967 | 490374 (42.8%) |
Female | 1064794 (57%) | 1001015 | 563902 (57%) | 1184513 (57%) | 1156618 | 655599 (57%) |
Transgender | 11 | 11 | 7 | 13 | 11 | 3 |
Total | 1872343 | 1764571 | 993069 | 2087462 | 20,24,390 | 1145976 |
There is a clear indication that one module supersedes others – Classroom Coaching. Our research brought out the fact as to how much a student prepares to appear for the NEET. For the ease of analysis, we collected data on AIR top 100 of NEET for the year 2022. Since we could gather information of only the top 70 students, we compared these 70 top rankers out of which 54 students took just one type of coaching, which is either a classroom programme or a distance learning programme offered by coaching centres. As many as 16 top rankers opted to go for more than one coaching institute. The next 10 students took only help from distance education and 11 students took classroom as well as distance coaching to prepare for NEET UG.
Coaching Modules of Top 100 AIR Candidates Of NEET UG 2022
Highlights | Students |
Comparison among top | 100 AIR |
Information available for | 70 |
One coaching taken by | 54 |
More than one Coaching | 16 |
One Distance learning coaching only | 10 |
One classroom coaching with extra help from other coaching centres | 11 |
The data obtained from all official sources only underlines the fact that medicine continues to be a most preferred profession and getting into a good college or university is only possible if you rank well in the NEET exam. Coaching centres especially the ones mentioned above seem to be the most favoured and popular with Aakash Institute being the top choice for NEET coaching.
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Hello Student,
Some reasons your name might not be there include missing the cutoff list for a top-tier institute. Because you are from the general category, the cutoffs are higher than those for the reserved category.
Another aspect is that you have scored 95 per cent in the entrance exam
No, you cannot pursue MBBS in India, without qualifying NEET UG . You need to qualify the medical entrance exam and then appear for the NEET counselling to get an MBBS seat in India .
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Yes, you can leave BAMS first-year seat to reappear in NEET and join the MBBS course. You need to pay the bond penalty amount specified by the college once you leave the seat. Some states debarred the students from taking admission in the next academic session. Some colleges take
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You can check the year -wise NEET question paper and get to analyse the question trends, identify important chapters and alignment with the current syllabus. You can also check NEET important questions here.
Hi! To download NEET previous year's question paper e-book, follow the steps mentioned below.
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