Hello Aspirant,

Hope you are doing well ,The cutoff for the medical entrance exam is expected to be lower this year. The minimum marks needed to pass the National Eligibility cum Entrance test(NEET 2021) remain 50 percentile, however, to get admission to top colleges, the required marks might be lower this year as compared to last year. The cutoff depends upon a number of factors including the number of students who took exam, total seats available,& the difficulty level of exam. While the number of students applying for exam was high this year over 16 lakh, however there has been an increase in the number of seats as well as the difficulty level has gone up.

This year, the cutoff for students belonging to the general category, a score between 530-540 could help to get admission in tier-2 colleges, but for making entry possible into the government medical colleges, one should score 580 or more.

The medical seats are divided into 2 types of Quota.

AIQ  (All India Quota)

Quota set by the government

AIQ seats account for 15% of all seats in government medical colleges, while state quota seats account for the remaining 85%.

For more information about the Neet cutoff of previous years, you can go through the link below:

https://medicine.careers360.com/articles/neet-cut-off

Hope this helps

All the best!