NEET UG 2025 Exam Mode Confirmed by NTA: Single Day Exam Shift

NEET UG 2025 Exam Mode Confirmed by NTA: Single Day Exam Shift

Shamshad Ali DarUpdated on 16 Jan 2025, 06:20 PM IST

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has announced the NEET exam mode 2025. As per the NTA NEET latest notice, the NEET UG 2025 will be conducted in pen and paper mode in a single day and single shift. The NEET exam date 2025 will be announced soon at neet.nta.nic.in. Candidates wishing to appear in the NEET entrance exam must be aware of the NEET 2025 exam mode.

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Revised NEET PG 2026 cut-offs for all category candidates are given below.

Category

Minimum qualifying criteria

Cut-off score as per minimum qualifying criteria

Revised minimum qualifying criteria

Revised cut-off scores

General/EWS

50th percentile

276

7th Percentile

103

General PwBD

45th percentile

255

5th Percentile

90

SC/ST/OBC

(Including

PwBD of SC/ST/OBC)

40th percentile

235

0th Percentile

-40

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NEET UG 2025 Exam Mode Confirmed by NTA: Single Day Exam Shift
NEET UG 2025 Exam Mode

The NEET UG will be held in offline mode for a time duration of 3 Hours and 20 Minutes. A total of 200 multiple choice questions will be asked in the NEET exam from Physics, Chemistry, Biology (Botany & Zoology) subjects. Students have to answer only 180 MCQ. Read this article to know more about the NEET offline mode 2025 updates, exam pattern, format, duration and many more.

NEET exam mode 2025 confirmed by NTA

NEET 2025 will be conducted by NTA in pen and paper mode not online. As per the notice released by the NTA, NEET UG 2025 will be held in pen and paper mode in a single day and single shift. The exam is held in 13 languages. Earlier, there were speculations that NEET UG 2025 exam mode will be changed to online mode. However, with the latest announcement by NTA, the mode of NEET exam will remain the same like previous years.

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NEET UG 2025 exam mode

Particulars

Details

Mode of NEET exam

Offline (pen and paper based)

Conducting authority

National Testing Agency

Language options

English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Oriya, Malayalam, Kannada, Punjabi and Urdu

Type of questions

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

Exam duration

3 Hours and 20 Minutes

Number of questions

200 MCQs

NEET marking scheme

  • 4 marks will be given for each correct answer

  • 1 mark will be deducted for each wrong attempt

  • No marks for unanswered question


NEET exam 2025 mode offline

The NTA has confirmed that NEET UG will be conducted in pen and paper mode (OMR based). The announcement of NEET paper mode 2025 has ended speculations about changing of NEET in online mode. "As decided by the National Medical Commission, it is informed that the NEET (UG) 2025 shall be conducted in Pen and Paper mode (OMR based) in Single day and Single Shift.” reads the NTA notice. The expert committee headed by former ISRO chief K. Radhakrishnan had recommended online conduct of NEET 2025 exam in multiple phases. However, the NTA has decided to conduct the NEET in offline mode like previous years.

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