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What is the age limitations for the Scheduled Caste for NEET-UG?


vishwas kheriwal 21st Apr, 2022
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ADITYA KUMAR Student Expert 21st Apr, 2022

Hi

There's no upper age limit for neet, while lower age limit is 17 years old as on 31st December of the year of examination for all the categories.

For your reference

Here's the eligibility criteria for NEET :-

-----------) Qualification required :-As per Neet eligibility to be eligible you must be either appearing for 12th board examination  or should have passed 12th board examination with physics, chemistry ,biology/biotechnology and English as core subject.

†††Important Note :- Students with Biology as an additional subject are also provisionally eligible for neet until Supreme Court gives its judgement over it.

-----------)  Percentage required :- You must get

  • at least 50 % in aggregate of PCB i.e Physics, Chemistry and Biology/Biotechnology in 12th examination if belongs to general category

  • at least 40% in aggregate of PCB if belongs to st/Obc/ Sc

  • at least 45 % in aggregate of PCB in case of pwd candidates to be eligible.


-------------------)  Age limit :-

  • Lower age limit:- to be eligible for neet  one has to be at least 17 years old or more by 31st December in the year of appearing for the examination .

  • Upper age limit :-There's no upper age limit for NEET. Earlier there was upper age limit  of 25 years which was pending in supreme court, on 9th march 2022 NMC in its notice has removed upper age limit. For details about it checkout :- https://medicine.careers360.com/articles/neet-number-of-attempts-and-age-limit

--------------------) There's no attempt limit for neet.

For detailed information about neet examination eligibility go through our page for which link is provided below; -

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


To help you further,

Other relevant details about NEET is given below:-


>>>>>>>>>>>>> NEET EXAMINATION OVERVIEW

******* Number of Questions

  • 200 MCQs out of which only 180 MCQs needs to be attempted

******* Exam Mode

Offline mode :- pen and paper-based

******* Type of questions

Mcqs

******* Duration of Exam

200 minutes i. e 3 hours 20 minutes

******* Subjects

  • Physics,

  • Chemistry,

  • Botany

  • Zoology

******* Language

Conducted in 13 languages :-

  • English,

  • Hindi,

  • Assamese,

  • Bengali,

  • Gujarati,

  • Malayalam,

  • Kannada,

  • Marathi,

  • Odia,

  • Tamil,

  • Telugu,

  • Urdu  Punjabi

******* Frequency of examination

Once in a year

******* Full marks

720 marks


>>>>>>>>>>>>> SUBJECT WISE number of question.

Subjects

Sections

No. of questions

Section-wise Marks

Physics

Section A

35

140

Section B

15 ( out of these 15, only 10 questions to be attempted)

40

Chemistry

Section A

35

140

Section B

15 ( only 10 questions to be attempted)

40

Botany

Section A

35

140

Section B

15 ( only 10 questions to be attempted)

40

Zoology

Section A

35

140

Section B

15 ( only 10 questions to be attempted)

40

Total Marks

720


>>>>>>>>>>>>> MARKING SCHEME

NEET MARKING SCHEME

  • Correct answer:- 4 marks

  • Wrong answer:- -1 marks

  • unanswered question:- 0 marks



To help you in your  NEET Preparation , we have AI - driven neet knockout having all the features like smart study materials, video lectures, doubt solving facility, test series etc for you to ace you neet examination , the link for the same is given below:-

https://learn.careers360.com/knockout-neet


Thankyou

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