Was NEET 2025 the Toughest Exam Ever? Expert Insights & Student Reviews

Was NEET 2025 the Toughest Exam Ever? Expert Insights & Student Reviews

Shamshad Ali DarUpdated on 07 May 2025, 12:50 PM IST

The NTA conducted NEET UG 2025 on May 4, 2025 in pen and paper- based mode. As per media reports, over 22 lakh students appeared for NEET 2025. Soon after the conclusion of the exam, students and experts termed it ‘toughest NEET UG exam ever’. According to the students who appeared for the test, the NEET question paper 2025 was difficult as compared to previous years.

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Was NEET 2025 the Toughest Exam Ever? Expert Insights & Student Reviews
Toughest NEET 2025 Exam Ever

The NEET UG exam paper was tough and time-consuming. Highlighting the NEET difficulty level, students and experts believed that the NEET 2025 was the toughest exam, the same as the NEET UG 2016. In all NEET sections, Physics is said to be the toughest and challenging. To know more about the hardest NEET exam in history, paper analysis and difficulty level, check the article below.

NEET toughest paper among all years

Conducted by NTA, NEET UG 2025 turned out to be the toughest medical entrance exam this year. Many students claimed that the overall NEET exam paper 2025 was difficult and highly challenging. According to them, the questions were lengthy and tough compared to previous year's papers. Many students claimed that the questions had several correct options available which also confused them. Several said this year NTA has taken revenge due to paper leak and other scams which surrounded the largest medical entrance exam last year. After the exam concluded, students and experts unanimously named the NEET UG 2025 as the ‘hardest NEET exam in history’.

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Analysis of hardest NEET UG exam

The NEET 2025 was reported to be the most difficult and lengthy exam ever. According to students, NEET Physics was harder and toughest amongst all sections. The NEET Physics question paper featured formula based time- consuming questions. Due to time management, it was tough to solve all the questions. LIke physics, Chemistry was also lengthy where major focus was given to organic and physical chemistry questions. Compared to previous years, Chemistry was time-consuming and challenging.

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Biology was counted as moderate. Barring a few, all questions were predictable and NCERT based. The section was lengthy too but balanced. It is expected that the difficulty level in NEET question paper 2025 may impact overall NEET cutoff 2025 this year particularly for government medical colleges. Dr. Brajesh Maheshwari, Director, Allen Career Institute, analysed that the NEET 2025 paper was tougher compared to previous years. The questions were of high standard and lengthy. “Due to the implementation of the pre-covid pattern in the exam and the level of the paper being difficult, it can be said that scoring very high will be difficult for the students as compared to previous years,” said Maheshwari.

NEET toughest paper among all years

Students and experts expressed concerns over the difficulty level of the NEET UG 2025. Several users took to social media platform 'X'(formerly Twitter) to share their experience with the exam.

One user wrote, “Is it fair to make NEET Physics tougher than JEE, when it's a medical exam, not an engineering one? Last time results were timed with elections to cover up paper leaks. Now making the toughest NEET ever? Students deserve fairness, not politics.”


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Another user wrote, “NEET UG 2025 was tougher this year, especially Physics. Such difficulty doesn’t align with the format of solving 180 questions in 180 minutes.”

"NEET 2025 is the toughest paper till now, surpassing NEET 2016,” wrote another user.

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