NEET UG 2018 – Details, Eligibility

NEET UG 2018 Exam –  The National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) UG is conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), for admission to MBBS/BDS courses in India in medical/dental colleges run with the approval of the Medical Council of India/ Dental Council of India.The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is all set to release the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) UG 2018 exam by last week of January. 

Check out the eligibility and other details related to NEET 2018 about necessary documents and information while they are applying for NEET 2018. The exam will be conducted in Hindi, English, Urdu, Gujarati, Marathi, Oriya, Bengali, Assamese, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada.

Classification of seats

— All India Quota Seats
— State Government Quota Seats
— State/Management/NRI quota seats in private medical/dental colleges or any private/deemed university central pool quota seats.

Educational qualification

Aspirants should have passed class 12th or equivalent exam with physics, chemistry, biology/bio-technology and English individually. Moreover, they must have obtained a minimum of 50 per cent marks taken together in physics, chemistry and biology/bio-technology at the qualifying examination.

Aadhaar card requirement

Aadhaar is mandatory in NEET 2018. This is, however, not applicable in Jammu and Kashmir, Assam and Meghalaya. For NRIs, passport number is required for the same.

Age eligibility

A candidate can attempt the NEET paper three times only for the medical entrance exam. The CBSE had also introduced maximum age limit to 25 years.

NEET 2018 exam pattern

There will be one paper containing 180 objective type questions (four options with a single correct answer) from physics, chemistry and biology (botany and zoology).

The duration of paper would be three hours from 10 am to 1 pm. Question papers can be obtained in the following languages — Hindi, English, Gujarati, Marathi, Oriya, Bengali, Assamese, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada.