What is a good score in NEET 2024?

Hello aspirants and future medical students, confused about what score you should aim for? Don’t know what score will get you a good rank in NEET?

Now, these are some excellent questions. If you are asking these questions, you are on the right path. I mean, it is smart only, right? If you don’t know what to aim for, how will you create a study plan?

Identifying the score you want to aim for should ideally be one of the first steps in your NEET preparation.

So, what really is considered a good score in NEET? It all depends on your choice. I’ll tell you how.

What is NEET 2024?

NEET exam or the National Eligibility Entrance Test, is the only test you will have to take to enter a medical college in India- Government or Private. The total marks in the NEET exam are 720. And, since 2020, one or more than one student has scored 720/720 marks.

So, imagine the competition you have to endure in the exam. This is also because of the paper pattern and level of questions that NTA has been using to test the students. The questions are entirely NCERT books-based, so if you have read and practiced your NCERT’s well, you can easily get a good rank.

How is your rank decided? Read here.

What is a “good score” in NEET? Why should you understand the scoring system in NEET?

A good score in NEET 2024 is essential for securing admission to top medical colleges. Inflation is more apparent in the NEET ranks than the cost of living, so if you have any CA friends, give them the example of NEET ranks, haha)

This information is important for you as it helps you understand your expected rank based on your score in the exam. By knowing your rank, you can have an idea of your chances of getting admission to medical, dental, AYUSH, BVSc & AH colleges in the country.

Considering the inflation in NEET ranks, even if you score more than 650 marks, you will still be getting a rank of around 5000. That is crazy, right? Well, that is what has happened to the NEET exam ranks since 2020.

So for a general overview, how much should you aim for in NEET 2024?

It all depends on these factors:

Your domicile state

Why do you need to know your domicile?

Because, there are two types of medical seats in NEET. 85% of all seats in a state are reserved for the students belonging to that state (who have the domicile of that state) and rest of the 15% can be applied by students from all over India using the All India Counselling. Thus, there are two Counselling you can take part in: State Counselling and All India Counselling.

So, how is your domicile state decided? It differs from state to state. Here are some rules:

1. It can depend on your permanent residence. Say, if you were born in or lived in a state for more than 5-10 years (can differ state-wise. ), you might be eligible for to apply for the 85% state quota in that state and participate in the State Counselling.

1. It is decided in a lot of states (for eg Delhi) by the school you have passed your 12th boards from. I’ll explain. Say, if you belong to Uttar Pradesh but you enroll yourself in a school in Delhi after 10th standard and complete your 12th boards from that school in Delhi, you will be eligible for the 85% state quota of Delhi.

Read more about the Counselling process and the specifics in our NEET Counselling Blog section.

Your reservation category

Every college has some seats reserved based on the caste category you belong to. You will have to get a category certificate to prove and apply for the caste-specific reservations. Thus, you might get a seat at a lower mark than other category students. So, ensure you check the category wise marks needed to get a medical college seat and plan your preparation accordingly.

Your gender

If you are a female, some states like Bihar have seats reserved for you in the 85% state quota. So, you might be eligible to get an MBBS seat in a college at lower marks than your male counterparts. (LMAO, I am writing this blog on the International Women’s Day)

Your degree preference: MBBS, BDS, Homeopathy, Ayurveda, etc.

MBBS has a higher demand than other medical degrees. But, that does not mean that other degrees are less valued than MBBS. A healer is a healer, regardless of the degree you pursue.

You will have to score more marks to get an MBBS seat. The marks needed, keep increasing if you want a government seat, you belong to a state which offers less number of MBBS colleges and seats or, if you want a reputed medical college.

Whether you want a private college or a government seat

Private colleges do not require very high marks to get MBBS admission in their college because they are very expensive and thus, less number of aspirants prefer them. Some private medical colleges may even admit aspirants who score marks less than 300 as long as you can afford the high course fees. So decide wisely, before enrolling in a private medical college, especially if you will be taking a loan to study in a private medical college.

Whether you want a great and reputed medical college or you are only aiming for a government MBBS seat

Ok, so this entirely a choice. If you want to study MBBS from a very reputed medical college, you will have to work much harder. You will have to get a rank under 4000 to get an old and reputed medical college.

For example, if you want to get AIIMS Delhi as a general category student, you need to get a rank under 50 to be on the safer side.

Does it matter if you don’t pursue your MBBS degree from a reputed college? Not really. The MBBS curriculum is similar throughout the country.

Which state you wish to study your degree in?

As I explained above, there are two types of quotas that apply during the NEET counselling. One is All India Quota (15%) and the other one is State Quota (85%). If you have the state domicile of Maharashtra, you will be eligible to apply for 85% reserved seats in Maharashtra state and thus, you might get Grant Medical College easily (for eg, 640 marks). But, say, you belong to Uttar Pradesh and want to study in Mumbai, you will have to score much higher (680+). It’s because only 15% of the total seats in Grant Medical College are given in the ALL India Quota. (38 AIQ seats out of the total 250 seats).

So based on these factors, this is a general overview of the NEET ranks you should aim for:

- If you want an AIQ seat, it will require rank less than 20,000.

- If you belong to high cutoff states like Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Delhi, anything less than 25k is regarded great.

- If you belong to low-cutoff states like Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Assam, it can go up to 45k. These states are “low-cutoff states” because either they have less number of medical seats or less number of people sit for the NEET exam in that state.

- In states like Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, you also earn a government seat up to 58k rank.

- In Karnataka, you can secure government seats in private medical colleges as well. The expenses can reach 3.5LPA, and such seats are accessible even for General Merit students with a rank of 80k.

- So good rank differs from place to place.

- You are eligible for up to 22k ranks and can get into medical colleges only up till the third round.

- However, for a decent rank, under 20k AIR is regarded good, under 15k is better, and under 10k is considered exceptional, and if you fall within the 5k group, congratulations as you will be admitted to top-tier universities.

Now, go down to the table and check the previous year trends of” NEET Marks vs Ranks”.

What has been the trend for NEET marks in the past year ?

Here is some data on the NEET exam 2023:

1. NEET 2023 Marks vs Rank Analysis
  – Two candidates scoring 720 marks are ranked 1.
  – Sixteen candidates with 715 marks are awarded ranks 4-19.
  – Candidates with scores between 712-710 have ranks assigned from 20-50.

1. Factors Affecting NEET 2023 Marks vs Rank
  – The difficulty level of the NEET question paper.
  – The level of preparation of the aspirants.
  – The number of students appearing for NEET 2023.

1. Previous Year Analysis
  – The highest marks secured by any candidate in NEET 2022 were 715, NEET 2021 was 720, NEET 2020 were 720, NEET 2019 were 701, NEET 2018 were 691, and for NEET 2017 were 697.
  – The qualifying score for unreserved category candidates in NEET 2022 was 117, NEET 2021 was 138. However, for NEET 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017, it was 147, 134, 119, and 131, respectively.
  – The last rank of candidates qualifying for NEET 2022, NEET 2021, NEET 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017 was 1534697, 1545759, 1545759, 1374142, 634897, and 543473, respectively.

Scores needed to get a Medical College vs Category- wise Cut off:

Category-wise cutoff release by MCC ( the counselling body for medical admissions) is different from the marks you need to get a medical college in Indian government and private medical institutes. Don’t understand? Read our comprehensive blog on NEET Percentile vs Marks.

Category-wise cut off tells you the minimum marks you need to participate in the counselling process for Medical admissions.

Usually, the marks you need to get an MBBS seat in government or private medical colleges are much higher.

If say you belong to the general category and 132 marks and the lowest QUALIFYING marks are 130- you can sit for the counselling process and try to get a medical seat in courses like MBBS, BDs, Ayurveda or Homeopath.

Now it is highly unlikely that you will get a MBBS seat at 130 marks if you belong to the general category, but you might get a MBBS seat in a private medical college (which will be very expensive) or an admission in other courses like BDS, ayurveda etc..

Or if you want get MBBS admission abroad (outisde india), starting in 2024, the Indian government will require students to pass the NEET exam if they want to pursue MBBS studies abroad. So, if you just qualify the NEET exam (get the minimum marks for your category in NEET ), you will be able to get admission into an MBBS college outside India.

Now do you understand the difference between cut off marks and marks needed to get a MBBS seat?

No? Read our comprehensive blog here to understand it in depth.

NEET 2023 Tie-breaking Policy

The competition for the NEET 2023 Examination is fierce, therefore two students may achieve the same score. To address this issue, the NTA has implemented a tie-breaking guideline for students, which includes:

In the event of the same marks, the student with higher marks in the Biology course would be considered.
If there is still a tie, the student with the higher mark in the Chemistry subject will be considered.
If there is still a tie, the student with the fewest number of erroneous questions in the exam will be considered.
If the circumstance remains unfavourable, the elder student will be given preference over the other.

NEET Marks Vs Rank Trend

These marks vs rank trend is of NEET 2023. This a rough estimate of how what your rank will be against a specific NEET score. These may change every year, so only take a rough estimate. If you want a get a rank of 5000, add 10 marks to the NEET 2023 score required for 5000 rank (645+10= 655) and aim for that.

NEET 2023 Rank	NEET 2023 Marks
1	720
3	716
4-19	715
20	712
21-26	711
27-50	710
100	700-705
200	697
500	690
1000	675
5000	645
10000	625
15000	610
20000	600
23000	594
25000	590
30000	580

Topper list of NEET 2023

Prabhanjan J and Bora Varun Chakravarthi were jointly declared as All-India toppers in NEET 2023. They secured a total of 720 marks out of 720 marks with 99.999901 percentile.

- Rank 1: Prabanjan J, Bora Varun Chakravarthi (720 marks)

- Rank 3: Kaustav Bauri (716)

- Rank 4: Pranjal Aggarwal (715)

- Rank 5: Dhruv Advani (715)

- Rank 6: Surya Siddharth N (715)

- Rank 7: Shriniketh Ravi (715)

- Rank 8: Swayam Shakti Tripathy (715)

- Rank 9: Varun S (715)

- Rank 10: Parth Khandelwal (715)

- Rank 11: Ashika Aggarwal (715)

- Rank 12: Sayan Pradhan (715)

- Rank 13: Harshit Bansal (715)

- Rank 14: Shashank Kumar (715)

- Rank 15: Kanchani Geyanth Raghu Ram Reddy (715)

- Rank 16: Shubhamm Bansal (715)

- Rank 17: Bhaskar Kumar (715)

- Rank 18: Dev Bhatia (715)

- Rank 19: Arnab Pati (715)

- Rank 20: Shashank Sinha (715)

NEET 2022 Marks vs Rank Based on Previous Year Analysis

Below, candidates can find the NEET 2023 Marks vs Rank statistics based on the previous year’s analysis.

NEET Rank 2022	NEET Topper 2022 Scores
1	715
2	715
3	715
4	715
5	711
6	710
7	710
8	710
9	710
10	710
11	710
12	710
13	710
14	710
15	706
16	706
17	705
18	705
19	705
20	705
21	705
22	705
23	705
24	705
25	705
26	705
27	705
28	705
29	705
30	705
31	705
31	705
33	705
34	705
35	705
36	705
37	705
38	705
39	705
40	705
41	705
42	705
43	702
44	701
45	701
46	701
47	701
48	700
49	700
50	700

NEET Marks vs Rank 2022

Check the comparison of NEET Marks vs Rank 2022 below the given table.

NEET marks	NEET ranks
715	1
700	48
690	251
680	730
670	1571
660	2812
650	4371
640	6785
630	9196
620	12540
610	16253
600	21053
590	25601
580	30815
570	36892
560	42342
550	48618
540	55319
530	61814
520	68736
510	75938
500	84215
490	91427
480	99683
470	108271
460	117415
450	125788
440	136210
430	145824
420	156195
410	166558
400	178871
390	189846
380	202283
370	214900
360	228001
350	242235
340	256349
330	271659
320	287250
310	305415
300	322624
290	339817
280	357788
270	376785
260	396647
250	417856
240	440514
230	463304
220	488073
210	513492
200	541496
190	570504
180	602075
170	636832
160	672795
150	714523
140	755636
130	808886
120	862003
110	922319
100	1001736
90	975975
80	1044096
70	1117041
60	1269683
50	1342259
40	1405936
30	1457867
20	1495726
10	1520740
9 – 0	1534697

NEET Marks vs Rank 2021

Check the comparison of NEET Marks vs Rank 2021 in the table given below.

NEET marks	NEET ranks
720	1,2,3
716	4
715	5-20
710	21-53
701	54-129
700-697	207-225
667-658	1710 – 2912
657-648	3065 – 4869
647-638	5073 – 7357
637-628	7643 – 10545
627-618	10877 – 14353
617- 608	14766 – 18807
607 -598	19277 – 24026
597 – 588	24534 – 29770
587 -578	30391 – 36057
577 -568	36751 – 42759
567 -558	43422 – 50021
557 – 548	50784 – 57778
547 – 538	58599 – 65727
537 – 528	66548 – 74111
527 – 518	74929 – 82675
517 – 508	83522 – 91757
507 – 498	92665 – 101137
497 – 488	102054 – 110801
487 – 478	111799 – 120832
477 – 468	121819 – 131202
467 – 458	132265 – 142031
457 – 448	143226 – 153188
447 – 438	154385 – 164903
437 – 428	166026 – 176642
427 – 418	177822 – 188860
417 – 408	190149 – 201809
407 – 398	203121 – 215020
397 – 388	216357 – 228512
387 – 378	229880 – 242439
377 – 368	243827 – 256796
367 – 358	258281 – 271762
357 – 348	273287 – 286921
347 – 338	288498 – 302718
338 – 328	302718 – 319518
327 – 318	321100 – 336798
317 – 308	338543 – 355088
307 – 298	356873 – 373742
297 – 288	375528 – 393108
287 – 278	394985 – 413106
277 – 268	415081 – 433736
267 – 258	435789 – 455346
257 – 248	457558 – 478134
247 – 238	480330 – 501800
237 – 228	504101 – 526247
227 – 218	528700 – 552229
217 – 208	554724 – 578992
207 – 198	581610 – 607516
197 – 188	610299 – 637029
187 – 178	639955 – 668399
177 – 168	671419 – 701456
167 – 158	704728 – 736962
157 – 148	740376 – 774912
147 – 138	778519 – 815368
137 – 128	819314 – 859537
127 – 118	863637 – 908137
117 – 108	912581 – 960876
107 – 98	965743 – 1018522
97 – 88	1023837 – 1081257
87 – 78	1086789 – 1148396
77 – 68	1154157 – 1218142
67 – 58	1224015 – 1288057
57 – 48	1293945 – 1355785
47 – 38	1361058 – 1416461
37 – 28	1420925 – 1467024
27 – 18C	1470806 – 1505718
17 – 8	1508256 – 1531812
7 – 0	1533343 – 1545759

NEET Marks vs Rank 2020

NEET Aspirants can check the comparison data of NEET Mark vs Rank 2020 in the table given below.

NEET Marks	NEET Rank
720	1
715-691	3-343
690-681	345-694
680-671	695-1264
670-661	1265-2411
660-651	2412-4013
650-640	4014-6015
639-631	6016-8760
630-621	8671-12069
620-611	12069-15724
610-601	15725-20160
600-591	20161-25104
590-581	25105-30448
580-571	30449-36319
570-561	36320-42457
560-551	42458-49255
550-541	23695-56213
540-531	56214-63456
530-521	63457-70925
520-511	37780-38736
518-508	38822-44553
507-497	45023-51086
496-486	51498-58114
485-475	58214-65316
474-464	65801-73197
463-453	73337-81607
452-442	82216-89872
441-431	90825-99323
430-420	99914-109429
419-409	109937-120258
408-398	121183-130881
397-387	131606-142409
386-376	143021-154839
375-365	155526-166885
364-354	168240-180534
353-343	181904-194475
342-330	196229-212737
329-319	213657-228146
318-308	229715-244438
307-297	246358-262168
296-286	264920-281164
285-275	282209-301278
274-264	301630-321670
263-253	323239-342377
252-242	345392-365681
241-231	367875-389513
230-220	390772-415591
219-209	417086-443048
208-198	444437-473780
197-187	474172-504471
186-176	505827-537501
175-165	541048-576326
164-154	578413-615798
144-134	619072-700772
133-123	704652-753821
122-112	760098-815858
111-101	816706-879718
100-90	881132-950796
83-73	1000399-1071321
70-59	1094305-1168705
58-50	1174669-1228755
34-18	1318393-1374142

NEET Marks vs Rank 2019

Check the NEET Marks vs Rank 2019 comparison table given below.

Marks Range	Rank
701	–
691-700	1
681-690	2 – 7
671-680	8 – 31
661-670	32 – 63
651-660	64 – 122
641-650	123 – 232
631-640	233 – 398
621-630	399 – 639
611-620	640 – 994
601-610	995 – 1505
591-600	1506 – 2169
581-590	2170 – 3084
571-580	3085 – 4202
561-570	4203 – 5615
551-560	5616 – 7433
541-550	7434 – 9493
531-540	9494 – 11885
521-530	11886 – 14629
511-520	14630 – 17816
501-510	17817 – 21337
491-500	21338 – 25229
481-490	25230 – 29528
471-480	29529 – 34037
461-470	34038 – 38947
451-460	38948 – 44227
441-450	44228 – 49907
431-440	49908 – 55928
421-430	55929 – 62506
411-420	62507 – 69529
401-410	69530 – 76981
391-400	76982 – 84899
381-390	84890 – 93120
371-380	93121 – 102006
361-370	102007 – 111483
351-360	111484 – 121479
341-350	121480 – 132093
331-340	132094 – 143344
321-330	143345 – 155264
311-320	155265 – 167741
301-310	167742 – 180986
291-300	180987 – 194679
281-290	194680 – 209322
271-280	209323 – 224738
261-270	224739 – 240648
251-260	240649 – 257835
241-250	257836 – 275715
231-240	275716 – 294517
221-230	294518 – 314654
211-220	314655 – 336164
201-210	336165 – 359011
191-200	359012 – 383503
181-190	383504 – 409830
171-180	409831 – 438270
161-170	438271 – 469209
151-160	469210 – 502827
141-150	502828 – 539448
131-140	539449 – 579715
121-130	579716 – 624309
111-120	624310 – 673394
100-110	673395 – 736206
Less than 100	736207 and more