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    How Many Students Appeared in NEET 2025? - 20.8 Lakh Students Appeared

    How Many Students Appeared in NEET 2025? - 20.8 Lakh Students Appeared

    Shamshad Ali DarUpdated on 06 May 2025, 05:40 PM IST

    The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, NEET UG 2025 exam was conducted on May 4, 2025. As per media reports, over 20.8 lakh students appeared in NEET in 566 exam centres across India and abroad. The exact data on how many students appeared in NEET UG 2025 will be released by NTA along with the declaration of NEET results.

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    1. How many students appeared for NEET 2025?
    2. How many students qualified in NEET UG 2025?
    3. How many students registered in NEET UG 2025?
    How Many Students Appeared in NEET 2025? - 20.8 Lakh Students Appeared
    How Many Students Appeared in NEET 2025

    The NTA will release the detailed statistics, including the total number of appeared candidates, category-wise, gender-wise, as well as state-wise, on the official website, neet.nta.nic.in. However, compared to last year, there is a slight decrease. As per the previous year's data, over 23 lakh candidates appeared for NEET UG exam. The single largest medical entrance exam in India, NEET, is conducted by NTA for admission in medical courses such as MBBS, BDS, AYUSH and nursing. Candidates can check the number of students appeared for NEET 2025, previous year NEET data and other details here.

    How many students appeared for NEET 2025?

    As many as over 20.8 lakh students appeared in NEET 2025. The exact number of candidates who appeared in NEET 2025 will be available soon at neet.nta.nic.in. Around 22.8 lakh students filled the NEET application form 2025. The NEET UG 2025 was held in offline mode from 2 PM to 5 PM. Last year, a total of 23,33,297 candidates appeared for the NEET 2024, out of which 9,98,205 were male, 13,34,940 female and 17 third gender candidates. The NEET 2025 statistics will be provided here.

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    Number of candidates appeared in NEET UG 2025

    Particulars

    Details

    Number of candidates registered for NEET 2025

    22.8 lakh

    Number of Candidates appeared for NEET 2025

    20.8 lakh

    Number of candidates absent

    Will be released

    Number of qualified candidates

    Will be released

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    How many students qualified in NEET UG 2025?

    The NTA releases the number of qualified candidates on the official website along with the NEET results. Last year, as many as 1,315,853 candidates qualified for the NEET. In 2023, a total of 1,145,976 students were declared qualified in the entrance exam. Candidates can check the NEET qualified students data from the table mentioned below.

    NEET 2025 qualified candidates

    Year

    2025

    2024

    2023

    2022

    2021

    Number of candidates qualified

    To be updated

    1,315,853

    1,145,976

    993,069

    870,074

    How many students registered in NEET UG 2025?

    Around 22.8 lakh students had registered for NEET 2025. Over the years, NEET UG registrations have seen a massive increase in the number of applicants. In 2024, around 24,06,079 candidates registered for NEET exam, which was the highest number of registrations in the NEET history. However , this year the number of applicants showed a slight decrease in the number of registrations.

    How many students appeared for NEET 2024?

    The NEET statistics are released by the NTA along with the results. Candidates can check the exact data of how many candidates appeared for NEET 2024 and other details here. Check the number of appeared, qualified and registered candidates in the table below.

    Number of candidates appeared in NEET UG 2024

    Category

    Registered

    Appeared

    Qualified

    OBC

    1054277

    1026321

    618525

    SC

    356727

    344309

    178741

    ST

    157115

    150178

    68501

    General

    647260

    625446

    333929

    EWS

    190700

    186908

    116157

    Total

    2406079

    2333162

    1315853


    Number of students appeared in NEET UG 2023

    Particulars

    Details

    Number of candidates registered

    20,87,462

    Number of Candidates appeared for NEET 2023

    20,38,596

    Number of Candidates absent

    48,866

    Number of Candidates qualified

    11,45,976

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