NEET UG Registration Trends 2025: Check Details Here

NEET UG Registration Trends 2025: Check Details Here

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Deep PathakUpdated on 22 Mar 2025, 09:02 AM IST
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The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET UG) is the single largest medical entrance examination in India. Through the NEET UG exam, admission to several undergraduate courses like MBBS, BDS, and AYUSH. Over the years, NEET UG registration has seen an upward trend in the number of registered students. This trend was expected to rise for NEET 2025 too, however, NEET UG registration trends 2025 have seen a slight downward trend.

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  1. NEET UG registration trends 2025
  2. How many candidates applied for NEET 2025?
  3. Year-wise registration trends in NEET UG
  4. Major takeaways from NEET UG registration trends
  5. Factors behind the NEET 2025 registrations drop
NEET UG Registration Trends 2025: Check Details Here
NEET UG Registration Trends 2025

The NEET 2025 registration number has seen a slight decline in registrations compared to the previous year. Around 23 lakh students have registered for NEET UG 2025 exam, which is around 1 lakh less than the last year's mark of 24 lakh students. Read the full article to know comprehensively about the NEET UG registration trends in 2025, the contributing factors affecting the trend, and the implications it could have.

NEET UG registration trends 2025

The total number of NEET 2025 registrations is around 23 lakh this year. The NEET form date 2025 was from February 7 to March 7, 2025. The earlier trends of NEET 2025 registrations hinted that this year the total registrations in NEET 2025 will cross the mark of 26 lakh. A graphical representation of NEET 2025 registration trends is provided here.

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How many candidates applied for NEET 2025?

Aspirants who are wondering "How many registration in NEET 2025" should know that the exact data of how many people registered for NEET 2025 will be released by the NTA. As per several media sources, the total registrations in NEET 2025 has dropped by 1 lakh and over 23 lakh students have filled the NEET application form 2025.

Year-wise registration trends in NEET UG

The NEET UG exam has seen a consistent rise in registrations over the years. The data indicates a consistent upward trajectory in registrations from 2021 to 2024, with an increase of approximately 791,302 candidates. However, NEET 2025 registrations have dropped by about 106,079 candidates compared to 2024. The year-wise data of NEET UG exam registration is provided below.

NEET total registrations year-wise

Year

Total registered candidates

Total appeared candidates

Absent candidates

2024

2,406,079

2,333,297

72,782

2023

2,087,462

2,038,596

48,866

2022

1,872,343

1,764,571

107,772

2021

1,614,777

1,544,273

70,504

2020

1,597,435

1,366,945

230,490

2019

1,519,375

1,410,755

108,620

NEET UG registration trends analysis - Gender-wise

Gender

NEET 2024 registration

NEET 2023 registration

NEET 2022 registration

Male

1,029,198

902,936

807538

Female

1,376,863

1,184,513

1064794

Third Gender

18

13

11

Total

2,406,079

2,087,462

1872343

Category-wise NEET registration trends

Category

NEET 2024

NEET 2023

OBC

1,054,277

890,150

SC

356,727

303,318

ST

157,115

132,490

General

647,260

607,131

EWS

190,700

154,373

Total

2,406,079

2,087,462

Major takeaways from NEET UG registration trends

  • The total number of NEET registrations has been on the rise consistently for the last five years

  • The number of female students has been consistently more than the number of male students in NEET UG exam registrations

  • The total NEET UG registration of EWS category candidates has seen a significant jump over the last 3 years.

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Factors behind the NEET 2025 registrations drop

The NEET 2025 total registration has seen a drop of over 1 lakh candidates. Some of the reasons behind this NEET 2025 registrations drop are as follows -

1. Limited number of seats

While the competition level of the NEET UG exam has increased with the increasing number of applicants, the total seats under the NEET UG exam has not increased to that extent. This limited number of seats has reduced the interest of students from the NEET UG exam and they are now looking for alternative career options.

2. No extension of NEET registration window

With no NEET registration window extension, many students who couldn’t register for the exam before the last date of NEET 2025 registration, couldn’t fill their NEET application form . The NEET 2025 registration last date was March 7. NTA generally extends the registration window of the NEET exam allowing more candidates to register. However, this year with no extension in the registration window, there has been a decline in total NEET 2025 registration.

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Questions related to NEET

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Have a question related to NEET ?

Hello aspirant,

For NEET, you must select your central government category, not the state category. Jaat from Uttar Pradesh is counted as General in the central list because this caste is not included in the Central OBC list. Even though you may fall under OBC at the state level, NEET uses only the central list for reservation. So, in the NEET application, you should fill General category to avoid any issues during counselling or document verification.

FOR REFERENCE : https://medicine.careers360.com/articles/neet-eligibility-criteria

THANK YOU

Hello,

Here you can access Subject Wise High Scoring Topics for NEET 2026:

Biology

  • Human Physiology
  • Genetics & Evolution
  • Ecology & Environment
  • Plant Physiology
  • Cell Biology

Chemistry

  • Organic Chemistry Basics
  • Physical Chemistry Numerical
  • Inorganic Chemistry

Physics

  • Modern Physics
  • Current Electricity
  • Optics
  • Thermodynamics & Heat
  • Laws of Motion & Work/Energy

For more access below mentioned link:

https://medicine.careers360.com/download/ebooks/neet-most-scoring-chapters-topics-based-on-past-5-year-analysis

Hope it helps.

Hello,

NTA itself offers free NEET Mock Tests so you need to visit their official website and then u can go to the NEET section and under that there will be free mock tests available.. also there they provide pyqs as well.. so u can also download that in the pdf form

Hello aspirant,

With a rank of 1760 in the NTRUHS PG management quota (B-category) and belonging to the AU region, getting a clinical seat is possible but mostly in the mid or lower-demand branches. High-demand clinical courses like Radiology, Dermatology and General Medicine generally close at much lower ranks, but seats in branches such as ENT, Opthalmology, Psychiatry, Anesthesia or General Surgery may still be available depending on this year's vacancy movement during later rounds. Keep track of round - wise allotments for clearer chances.

FOR REFERENCE : https://medicine.careers360.com/articles/neet-pg-counselling

Hope the details will help you.

THANK YOU


Hello Candidate.

OCE is known as  "Other eligible communities". If your OCE is  OBC-NCL, you can choose the option for other backward classes with proper verified documents. if not, then choose the general category.

Thank You. Hope this information helps you to apply properly.