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NEET UG · Marks and ranks
NEET marks translate into an all-India rank band, never an exact rank, because the conversion moves every year with paper difficulty and the number of candidates. The last two years show how far: 650 marks was roughly rank 75 on the hard 2025 paper (topper 686) and roughly rank 1,500 on the easy 2026 re-exam (topper 715), where NTA counted 1,492 candidates at 650 or above. The tables below give both ends, year by year — use them to plan, and the official result to decide.
Quick answer
These are the same bands used by the BrainStride NEET rank predictor: the low end is the hard 2025 paper, the high end the easy 2026 re-exam, with about 20 lakh candidates appearing. Read them as ranges; a single number here would be false precision.
| Marks (out of 720) | All-India rank band |
|---|---|
| 650–720 | 1 – 1,500 |
| 600–649 | 77 – 10,000 |
| 550–599 | 1,400 – 35,000 |
| 500–549 | 12,000 – 91,000 |
| 450–499 | 46,000 – 1,65,000 |
| 400–449 | 96,000 – 2,70,000 |
| 350–399 | 1,72,000 – 4,40,000 |
| 300–349 | 2,82,000 – 6,40,000 |
| 250–299 | 4,33,000 – 8,60,000 |
| 213–249 | 6,24,000 – 10,30,000 |
| 177–212 | 7,95,000 – 11,21,000 |
| 144–176 | 9,67,000 – 12,32,000 |
Approximate, based on 2024–2026 results and published analyses. Not official NTA data. Ranks move every year with paper difficulty and the number of candidates who appear.
One score per row, on each of the last two papers. A 2027 paper will sit somewhere between, depending on its difficulty.
| Marks (out of 720) | Rank on the hard 2025 paper | Rank on the easy 2026 re-exam |
|---|---|---|
| 700 | 1 | 19 |
| 680 | 2 | 250 |
| 650 | 75 | 1,500 |
| 620 | 250 | 4,700 |
| 600 | 1,400 | 10,000 |
| 580 | 3,500 | 17,000 |
| 550 | 11,000 | 35,000 |
| 520 | 26,000 | 62,000 |
| 500 | 45,000 | 91,000 |
| 450 | 95,000 | 1,65,000 |
| 400 | 1,70,000 | 2,70,000 |
| 350 | 2,80,000 | 4,40,000 |
| 300 | 4,30,000 | 6,40,000 |
Approximate, based on 2024–2026 results and published analyses. The 2026 column at 700, 690, 650, 600 and 500 rests on NTA’s published counts; the rest is approximate. A midpoint, not a promise — for your band and your category's cutoff, use the [NEET rank predictor](/tools/neet-rank-predictor).
Indicative all-India rank at round scores. The 2026 figures at 700, 690, 650, 600 and 500 are NTA’s published counts of candidates at or above the score; everything else comes from published analyses of scorecards, and portals disagree by up to 2× at some points. Read each cell as a rough position, not a result.
| Marks | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (re-exam) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 700 | ≈200 | ≈100 | ≈2,300 | ≈8 | 19 |
| 690 | ≈450 | ≈500 | ≈4,400 | ≈15 | 138 |
| 650 | ≈3,500 | ≈5,000 | ≈29,000 | ≈75 | ≈1,500 |
| 600 | ≈17,000 | ≈20,500 | ≈70,000 | ≈1,350 | ≈10,200 |
| 550 | ≈43,000 | ≈48,500 | ≈1,44,000 | ≈11,500 | ≈35,000 |
| 500 | ≈80,000 | ≈1,00,000 | ≈2,09,000 | ≈45,000 | ≈91,000 |
| 450 | — | ≈1,27,000 | ≈2,86,000 | ≈95,000 | ≈1,65,000 |
| 400 | — | ≈1,79,000 | ≈3,51,000 | ≈1,70,000 | ≈2,70,000 |
Sources: NTA result press releases (2026 counts of candidates at or above a score; 2,321 at 700 or above in 2024 per the Ministry of Education); portal analyses of scorecards for the rest. 2024 figures predate the revised result of 26 July 2024. Not an official NTA table.
Roughly 1 on a hard paper like 2025 and 19 on an easy one like the 2026 re-exam. At this score a single question moves you by hundreds of ranks.
Roughly 2 on a hard paper like 2025 and 250 on an easy one like the 2026 re-exam. At this score a single question moves you by hundreds of ranks.
Roughly 75 on a hard paper like 2025 and 1,500 on an easy one like the 2026 re-exam. At this score a single question moves you by hundreds of ranks.
Roughly 250 on a hard paper like 2025 and 4,700 on an easy one like the 2026 re-exam. At this score a single question moves you by hundreds of ranks.
Roughly 1,400 on a hard paper like 2025 and 10,000 on an easy one like the 2026 re-exam. At this score a single question moves you by hundreds of ranks.
Roughly 3,500 on a hard paper like 2025 and 17,000 on an easy one like the 2026 re-exam. At this score the list is crowded, so a few marks move you by thousands of ranks.
Roughly 11,000 on a hard paper like 2025 and 35,000 on an easy one like the 2026 re-exam. At this score the list is crowded, so a few marks move you by thousands of ranks.
Roughly 45,000 on a hard paper like 2025 and 91,000 on an easy one like the 2026 re-exam. At this score the list is crowded, so a few marks move you by thousands of ranks.
Roughly 95,000 on a hard paper like 2025 and 1,65,000 on an easy one like the 2026 re-exam. At this score the list is crowded, so a few marks move you by thousands of ranks.
Roughly 1,70,000 on a hard paper like 2025 and 2,70,000 on an easy one like the 2026 re-exam. At this score the list is crowded, so a few marks move you by thousands of ranks.
Most of them are usually in three or four chapters. The 20-minute diagnostic finds which ones, then writes a daily plan around them.
As a planning tool with error bars, not a promise. Three cautions matter.
The band is the answer. A score of 600 does not map to a rank; it maps to a range, and the range is wide at the top of the paper because a handful of marks separate thousands of candidates there. Any tool that gives you a single rank from marks is hiding that spread rather than removing it.
The band spans two very different papers. The low end is the hard 2025 paper (topper 686); the high end is the easy 2026 re-exam (topper 715). If 2027 is easy, expect the high end; if it is hard, the low end.
Your category rank is a different number. Everything here is the all-India rank in the common merit list. Counselling for reserved categories works off category ranks, which are better than the all-India rank for the same marks, and no public formula converts between them.
BrainStride is an AI tutor for JEE, NEET and Olympiad preparation that runs a 20-minute diagnostic, maps your weak chapters and writes a daily plan, with every solution checked by teachers. The rank predictor and score calculator built on this data are free and need no account, because a rank band is the sort of thing you should be able to check in fifteen seconds.
Qualifying means you are eligible for counselling. These are the official qualifying ranges published with each year’s result: the upper figure is the topper’s score, the lower one the cutoff for that category.
| Category | Percentile | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General / EWS | 50th | 701–134 | 720–147 | 720–138 | 715–117 | 720–137 | 720–162 | 686–144 | 715–213 |
| OBC / SC / ST | 40th | 133–107 | 146–113 | 137–108 | 116–93 | 136–107 | 161–127 | 143–113 | 212–177 |
| General-PwD | 45th | 133–120 | 146–129 | 137–122 | 116–105 | 136–121 | 161–144 | 143–127 | 212–194 |
Source: NTA result notices. 2019 had no separate EWS category. 2024 is the revised result of 26 July 2024; 2026 is the 21 June re-exam, after the 3 May paper was cancelled. The 2025 range starts at 686 because that was the topper’s score on a hard paper.
Because NEET UG is marked on raw scores with no normalisation across years. There is one paper, sat on one day, so a difficult paper pushes everybody’s marks down together — and the rank attached to any given score improves as a result.
The last three years show it plainly. In 2024, an easy paper, the General qualifying range ran from 720 down to 162 (after the revised result of 26 July) and 650 marks was roughly rank 29,000. In 2025, a hard paper, it ran from 686 down to 144 and 650 was roughly rank 75. In the 2026 re-exam of 21 June, easy again, it ran from 715 down to 213 and NTA counted 1,492 candidates at 650 or above. A student who scored 600 in each of those years did not have the same rank: roughly 70,000, 1,350 and 10,200.
This is why marks-to-rank tables from coaching institutes disagree with each other, and why last year’s table is a rough guide rather than an answer for next year. It is also why a percentile-based statement — "I cleared the 50th percentile" — is stable across years in a way a raw score is not.
Yes, though more slowly. About 22.8 lakh candidates registered for NEET UG 2026 and about 20 lakh appeared in the re-exam, of whom 11.2 lakh qualified; in 2025, 22.1 lakh appeared and 12.4 lakh qualified. More candidates at the same difficulty means more people ahead of any given score, so the rank attached to it gets worse even when the paper does not change.
The free NEET rank predictor turns your marks into a rank range and checks them against your category’s qualifying cutoff. No sign-up, no email.
Better than the qualifying cutoff, by a wide margin. India has over 1.1 lakh MBBS seats, but roughly half of them are in private and deemed institutions at fees that change the question entirely, and government seats are split between an all-India quota and state quotas.
Two honest statements are all the public data supports. The first is that AIIMS, JIPMER and the most-chosen government colleges close in the first few thousand ranks. The second is that the rank a government seat needs in your state depends on your state, your category and that year’s paper, and it varies enough that a national number would mislead you.
For anything more specific, two sources are worth more than any blog table: the MCC allotment results for the all-India quota and deemed universities, and your state counselling authority’s closing ranks for the 85% state quota. Both publish round-wise data after every cycle.
At the top of the paper, very few. Around 650 marks a single question can move you hundreds of ranks; around 350 marks the same question moves you by a far smaller share of the list, because the candidates are spread more thinly there. This is the practical argument for accuracy at high scores: at that end of the table the marks you already know are worth more than the chapters you have not started.
If you are planning a second attempt and weighing how to prepare for it, online vs offline coaching sets out when each one wins, and what neither does for you.
A rank only becomes a seat through counselling, and which counselling you enter decides what the rank is worth.
| Route | Who runs it | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| All India Quota (15%) | MCC | 15% of government MBBS and BDS seats, open to candidates from any state |
| Deemed and central universities | MCC | All seats in deemed universities and central institutions, plus AIIMS, JIPMER, ESIC and AFMC |
| State quota (85%) | State counselling authority | 85% of government seats and private college seats in that state, usually with a domicile requirement |
MCC has run three rounds plus a stray vacancy round in recent years. Security deposits in recent cycles were ₹10,000 for General and ₹5,000 for reserved candidates on government seats, and ₹2,00,000 for deemed universities — confirm the current figures on mcc.nic.in.
On the hard 2025 paper, 650 out of 720 sat around all-India rank 75; on the easy 2026 re-exam NTA counted 1,492 candidates at 650 or above, so the same score was roughly rank 1,500; in 2024, another easy paper, it was roughly 29,000. At this end of the table a single question moves you by hundreds of ranks, and the paper moves you by thousands.
About rank 1,350 on the hard 2025 paper, about 10,200 on the easy 2026 re-exam (NTA counted 10,160 candidates at 600 or above) and about 70,000 in 2024. The band widens quickly either side of 600, so treat any single rank quoted for it as approximate and plan for the paper being easy.
NEET UG applies tie-breaking rules published with each year’s information bulletin, which in recent years have considered subject-wise performance — Biology, then Chemistry — and the number of incorrect answers, before falling back to other criteria. Check the current bulletin, since NTA has revised these rules more than once.
In the NEET UG 2026 re-exam of 21 June, the qualifying range for General and EWS candidates was 715 to 213 marks at the 50th percentile, 212 to 177 for OBC, SC and ST at the 40th percentile, and 212 to 194 for General-PwD at the 45th percentile. 11,21,185 candidates qualified. Qualifying makes you eligible for counselling; it does not secure a seat.
In NEET UG 2025 the qualifying range for General and EWS candidates was 686 to 144 marks at the 50th percentile, 143 to 113 for OBC, SC and ST at the 40th percentile, and 143 to 127 for General-PwD at the 45th percentile. Qualifying makes you eligible for counselling; it does not secure a seat.
Only as a guide. NEET UG raw scores are not normalised across years, so the rank attached to a score moves with paper difficulty and the number of candidates. The 2025 paper was hard and the 2026 re-exam easy, which moved the whole table twice in two years. Use bands for planning and the official result for decisions.
The all-India rank places you in the common merit list of every candidate who appeared. The category rank places you among candidates in your own category, so it is a better number for the same marks. Counselling for reserved seats uses the category rank, and no public formula converts one into the other.
Aim well above the qualifying cutoff, because government seats close far ahead of it. The precise target depends on your state, category and the year’s difficulty, so check MCC allotment results for the all-India quota and your state authority’s closing ranks. As a planning number, scores in the 600s put most government routes in play.
Qualifying marks, candidate numbers and the 2026 score counts are from official NTA result notices for 2019–2026. The marks-to-rank bands are BrainStride estimates, not official data.
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