The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Thursday declared the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG) 2026 examination results.
According to the NTA, a total of 11.21 lakh candidates have qualified for admission to undergraduate medical, dental, AYUSH and allied programmes.
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More than 58 per cent of the qualified candidates are women, the NTA said.
Punjab’s Aryan Gupta and Himachal Pradesh’s Panshul Bansal jointly obtained the highest score of 715 out of 720.
“The result has been declared in time so that the medical-admission and counselling calendar for candidates stays on track,” the NTA said.
The scorecards of all candidates are available on the official website, http://neet.nta.nic.in.
The NTA has also published the full list of Top Rankers, State Toppers, category-wise toppers (SC, ST, OBC-NCL, Gen-EWS, PwBD and PwD), category-wise cut-off marks and language-wise participation on its official website.
A total of 138 candidates scored above 690 marks out of 720. Of these, over 93 per cent appeared for NEET (UG) for the first time.
Qualified candidates have emerged from every one of the 36 States and Union Territories, ranging from over 1.7 lakh in Uttar Pradesh to 43 in Lakshadweep.
State Toppers include Jigmet Yangchan Lamo (Ladakh, 530 marks), Dhruv Tripathi (Andaman and Nicobar Islands, 606 marks) and Fahmida Anees (Lakshadweep, 573 marks), and cover every North-Eastern State.
Seventeen State Toppers scored 700 or above and 26 scored above 690.
The Top 17 rankers who scored more than 705 marks span eight States, namely Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar, Tamil Nadu and Telangana.
Score Distribution and Highest Scorers
- 19 candidates scored above 700 out of 720.
- 1,492 candidates scored 650 and above.
- 10,160 candidates scored 600 and above.
- 90,780 candidates scored 500 and above.
A total of close to 20 lakh candidates appeared for NEET (UG) 2026 at 5,440 centres in 551 cities in India and 14 cities abroad.
The NEET-UG re-examination was held on June 21 afte the earlier exam was cancelled over paper leak allegations.