Got your NEET rank? Your real options

• The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) of the Directorate General of Health Services, Government of India, fills 15 per cent of MBBS seats in state government medical colleges as the All India Quota, on NEET rank (MCC 2025 bulletin).
• The All India Quota is domicile free: a student from any state can take it. The remaining 85 per cent of seats in a state's government colleges are the state quota, filled by that state's own counselling body under its own eligibility rules (MCC 2025 bulletin).
• MCC also fills 100 per cent of seats in deemed universities, AIIMS and JIPMER, and all seats (including internal or domicile quota) of central universities such as Delhi University, BHU and AMU. These do not go through state counselling (MCC 2025 bulletin).
• For Delhi, 85 per cent of seats at the Delhi University colleges (LHMC, UCMS, MAMC) and IP University colleges (VMMC, ABVIMS) are a state quota for students who studied Class 11 and 12 in schools in NCT of Delhi, and MCC runs this counselling too (MCC 2025 bulletin).
• MCC runs four All India Quota rounds: Round 1, Round 2, Round 3 and a Stray Vacancy round. States run their own rounds, so a student can register in MCC counselling and in their home state counselling in the same year (MCC 2025 bulletin; state bulletins).

Closing figures are the last Open (General) government MBBS seat in the official list named, not a promise. States rank differently: some use your NEET All India Rank, some their own state merit list.

• Uttar Pradesh+

  Run by: Directorate General of Medical Education and Training (DGME), Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow. Official portal

  Who counts as home state: Unverified from an official document in this pass: aggregators say UP state quota seats in government colleges need UP domicile (or Class 10 and 12 passed in UP), while UP private college seats are open to candidates from any state. The 2026 policy GO on upneet.gov.in states the rule, but its Hindi text could not be machine-read.

  DGME UP runs counselling for the 85 per cent state quota in government colleges and for seats in UP private colleges. The official round-wise allotment lists and the 2026-27 fee fixation GO are posted on upneet.gov.in, but the files sit behind page scripts and the fee GO is a scanned image, so no closing rank or fee could be read from them. Aggregator (secondary) figures put the 2025 General closing for UP government MBBS at roughly AIR 4,000 to 32,000 depending on college and round; treat these as rough only. For 2025 about 32,230 candidates were eligible for 13,093 MBBS and BDS seats in 110 colleges (Careers360 news, secondary).

• MaharashtraLast Open government seat: 49,142 (2025)+

  Run by: State Common Entrance Test Cell, Maharashtra (with the Directorate of Medical Education and Research). Official portal

  Who counts as home state: The candidate must be a domicile of Maharashtra and must have passed both Class 10 (SSC) and Class 12 (HSC) from an institution in Maharashtra, with limited exceptions such as children of central or defence employees (NEET UG 2025 Information Brochure, clauses 4.2, 4.5 and 4.6).

  Round: CAP Round 3 (last regular CAP round; stray rounds followed). Last OPEN-seat allotment to a government MBBS college in the list, at SRTR Government Medical College, Ambajogai. Other late-closing government colleges in the same list: GMC Akola 49,069, GMC Gadchiroli 47,550.. Source

  Government college fee: Rs 1,52,100 tuition plus Rs 5,000 development fee a year for MBBS in government, government-aided and municipal corporation colleges (2025-26). Extra small charges apply, such as Rs 4,000 a year hostel and a Rs 1,500 admission fee.

  The closing figure is the highest All India Rank given an OPEN (General) seat at any government or corporation MBBS college in the official CAP Round 3 list; women-reserved OPEN (W) seats and other categories are left out. The list includes candidates who retained seats from earlier rounds. Private college fees are fixed separately by the Fee Regulating Authority (mahafra.org).

• Rajasthan+

  Run by: Rajasthan NEET UG Medical and Dental Admission/Counselling Board (Office of the Chairman, SMS Medical College, Jaipur; Medical Education Department). Official portal

  Who counts as home state: A candidate qualifies for Rajasthan domicile seats if, among other routes, a natural parent has lived in Rajasthan continuously for the last 10 years and the candidate studied for at least 5 of those years in Rajasthan, or the candidate is a bona fide resident of Rajasthan studying elsewhere, or is the child of a Rajasthan government or state body employee (2026 Information Bulletin, section III).

  Candidates who take a government seat (not management or NRI seats) sign a Rs 10 lakh bond not to leave the course and to serve the Rajasthan government for 2 years after MBBS (2026 Information Bulletin). The bulletin does not list government college tuition; fee sheets are published on the counselling website at choice filling. The official 2025 round-wise allotment lists could not be reached (the 2025 portal is offline), so no closing rank is given.

• Karnataka+

  Run by: Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA), Bengaluru. Official portal

  Who counts as home state: Unverified in this pass: the Karnataka quota needs the candidate to meet one of KEA's eligibility clauses (commonly described as 7 years of study in Karnataka); read the current KEA information bulletin before relying on this.

  Government college fee: Rs 64,350 a year for MBBS at state government medical colleges (2025-26, provisional). ESI medical colleges charge Rs 1,09,350. A government-quota seat in a private college costs Rs 1,53,571 a year, and a private-quota seat in the same colleges Rs 12,00,117 a year.

  Karnataka is unusual: KEA also allots a share of seats in private colleges at a regulated 'government quota' fee, far below the private-quota fee. KEA posts a cut-off rank archive at cetonline.karnataka.gov.in/kea/cutoff.aspx, but no 2025 medical cut-off PDF was found there in this pass, so no closing rank is given.

• Tamil Nadu+

  Run by: Selection Committee, Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DME), Government of Tamil Nadu. Official portal

  Who counts as home state: You must be a native of Tamil Nadu with a Nativity Certificate from the Tamil Nadu government (a permanent residence certificate is not accepted); students native to other states who studied Class 6 to 12 continuously in Tamil Nadu can be considered for Open Category seats only.

  Government college fee: Rs 18,073 per year in a Tamil Nadu government medical college (tuition Rs 6,000 plus special, library, university and other fees). Hostel and mess are extra.

  Tamil Nadu ranks candidates on its own state merit list built from NEET marks. 7.5 per cent of government seats are reserved for students who studied Class 6 to 12 in Tamil Nadu government schools, with a separate allotment. OC here means Open Competition: any community can win an OC seat, so the figure is the last seat an unreserved candidate could win. The 2026 counselling was still running on 27 September 2026 (round 2 allotted on 15 September 2026).

• Madhya PradeshLast Open government seat: AIR 61,341 (NEET score 492) (2025)+

  Run by: Directorate of Medical Education (DME), Madhya Pradesh, with MPOnline. Official portal

  Who counts as home state: State quota seats are for candidates with Madhya Pradesh domicile (the official allotment list has an MP Domicile column); the exact rule is in the MP Chikitsa Shiksha Pravesh Niyam 2018 and its amendments, which is a scanned Hindi PDF we could not read by machine.

  Round: Mop-up round, MP State Combined NEET UG Counselling 2025 (list dated 5 November 2025). Last UR (unreserved, open) seat in a government MBBS college, at Government Medical College Singrauli.. Source

  The top government colleges (Gandhi Medical College Bhopal, MGM Indore) close far earlier; the figure is for the newest government college, which fills last. DME MP also publishes round-wise opening and closing rank PDFs. A stray vacancy round may have followed the mop-up round; it was not checked. Fees are published college by college on an MPOnline fee page that did not load as text.

• BiharLast Open government seat: AIR 17,835 (General UR seat at BMIMS Pawapuri, the highest UR closing among state government colleges that allotted UR seats in this round) (2025)+

  Run by: Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board (BCECEB), through Under Graduate Medical Admission Counselling (UGMAC). Official portal

  Who counts as home state: A Residential Certificate is on the list of documents needed at admission; the exact domicile clause is in the Hindi section of the UGMAC prospectus, which we could not read by machine, so check it before relying on it.

  Round: Third round, UGMAC 2025 (opening and closing rank sheet; revised third round result dated 9 November 2025). For Female UR seats the highest government closing was AIR 18,742 (JLNMC Bhagalpur).. Source

  Bihar has 12 government MBBS colleges in UGMAC, including IGIMS Patna and ESIC Bihta. After rounds 1 and 2 combined, government UR seats closed between about AIR 6,255 (PMC Patna) and AIR 14,214 (ESIC Bihta). In private colleges the first 50 per cent of seats are filled at fees equal to government college fees and the rest at the college's own fee (UGMAC 2025 prospectus, para 4.6). A 2025 High Court order lets private colleges keep their own fixed fees until final orders.

• GujaratLast Open government seat, state merit rank: Gujarat merit rank 1,034 (ESIC Medical College, open category); 992 at Bhavnagar Government Medical College (2025)+

  Run by: Admission Committee for Professional Undergraduate Medical Educational Courses (ACPUGMEC), Gandhinagar. Official portal

  Who counts as home state: Gujarat's 2017 admission rules are reported to require passing Class 10 and Class 12 from schools in Gujarat (secondary source; the official rule text was not read).

  Round: Round 6 last-merit sheet, UG 2025-26 (government quota, OPEN). Only the 7 colleges marked as government colleges are counted; GMERS society colleges closed later, up to merit rank 2,487 (Godhra).. Source

  Gujarat ranks candidates on its own state merit list (not NEET All India Rank). The sheet marks seven colleges as government colleges (BJ Medical Ahmedabad, Baroda, Surat, Rajkot, Jamnagar, Bhavnagar and ESIC); GMERS colleges are government society colleges with higher fees. For comparison, the best government college (AMED, Ahmedabad) closed at merit rank 180.

• KeralaLast Open government seat, state merit rank: 904 (2025)+

  Run by: Commissioner for Entrance Examinations (CEE), Government of Kerala. Official portal

  Who counts as home state: State merit seats go to candidates of Kerala origin ('Keralite'), plus Non-Keralite Category I candidates, for example those who studied Class 8 to 12 in Kerala or lived in Kerala for 5 of their 12 years of study.

  Round: Third phase allotment (final list), State Merit (SM, open) column; highest SM last rank among government medical colleges (Govt. Medical College, Ernakulam; Kannur closed at 902). Source

  Government college fee: Rs 23,150 for MBBS in government medical colleges (2025 notice). Self-financing colleges were listed at about Rs 8,07,324 to Rs 8,16,038 for general seats, provisional.

  Kerala ranks are on the Kerala State Medical Rank List, which CEE draws up from NEET scores; it is not the NEET All India Rank. A fourth phase allotment followed, but CEE's last-rank table is for phase 3. Some government colleges show no State Merit last rank in that phase. SC and ST candidates on merit or reserved seats are exempt from fees, as the KEAM 2025 prospectus says.

• TelanganaLast Open government seat: 1,79,364 (2025)+

  Run by: Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS), Warangal. Official portal

  Who counts as home state: A candidate must have studied in Telangana for 4 consecutive academic years ending with the year of the qualifying exam (Class 12), or, if not in school, lived in Telangana for 4 years before that exam (G.O.Ms.No.33 of 19 July 2024).

  Round: KNRUHS mop-up phase allotment list, 28 October 2025 (Open, general seat, Government Medical College, Kumuram Bheem Asifabad); later stray-vacancy allotments not checked. Source

  Competent Authority Quota covers government college seats (after the 15 per cent All India Quota) and Category A seats in private colleges. The KNRUHS prospectus says tuition fee is as notified in G.O.Ms.No.106 of 28 July 2023 and adds a university fee of Rs 12,000; the G.O. itself was not read. A seat not joined after the mop-up round carried a Rs 20 lakh penalty and a 3-year ban. KNRUHS has moved its site, so 2025 PDFs are cited from a web archive copy.

• Andhra PradeshLast Open government seat: 62,713 (NEET score 491) (2025)+

  Run by: Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences (NTRUHS), Vijayawada. Official portal

  Who counts as home state: 85 per cent of state seats are for 'local' candidates of the Andhra University or Sri Venkateswara University area, usually meaning 4 consecutive years of study there ending with Class 12; the other 15 per cent are open to all Andhra Pradesh candidates, including non-locals.

  Round: Last ranks of candidates selected up to Phase III, OC (open) category, Competent Authority Quota; highest among government colleges at Sri Padmavathi Medical College for Women, Tirupati. For co-ed government colleges the highest was 59,770 (score 493) at Government Medical College, Anantapur.. Source

  Closing ranks differ by local area (AU and SVU), so an AU-area student and an SVU-area student with the same rank can get different colleges. Siddhartha Medical College, Vijayawada is a state-wide institution split between both areas. The 2026-27 prospectus says tuition fee is as decided by the state government, subject to pending writ petitions, so no fee figure is given.

• West Bengal+

  Run by: West Bengal Medical Counselling Committee (WBMCC). Official portal

  Who counts as home state: The domicile certificate form WBMCC links asks for continuous residence in West Bengal for at least the last 10 years.

  WBMCC runs the 85 per cent state quota in government colleges and state, management and NRI quota seats in private colleges. Its 2025 archive page lists only notices, not allotment results. The 2024 Round 3 result is published, but its text layout was too tangled to read one clean General (UR) closing rank for government colleges, so none is given. The 2026 information bulletin is a scanned PDF and could not be read.

• Delhi+

  Run by: Medical Counselling Committee (MCC), DGHS, Government of India. Official portal

  Who counts as home state: The 85 per cent Delhi state quota in Delhi University (LHMC, UCMS, MAMC) and IP University (VMMC, ABVIMS) colleges is for candidates who studied Classes 11 and 12 in schools in NCT of Delhi and passed the qualifying exam there.

  Unlike other states, Delhi's state quota is run by MCC in the same counselling as the All India Quota, and the central reservation policy applies. No closing rank was extracted for the Delhi quota.

How state counselling works

• The law splits counselling in two. A central authority counsels the All-India seats and each state's own authority counsels the state-level seats. (NMC Act 2019, section 14(3))
• MCC, under the health ministry's DGHS, counsels 100 per cent of seats at deemed universities, along with the 15 per cent All India Quota at state government colleges, AIIMS, JIPMER and the central universities. (MCC UG Counselling 2026 bulletin)
• Deemed university seats are open to all of India, with no home-state quota. Up to 15 per cent of a deemed university's seats go to NRI candidates. Some deemed universities also reserve seats for Jain or Muslim minority students. (MCC UG Counselling 2026 bulletin)
• To choose deemed university seats in MCC counselling you pay a Rs 5,000 registration fee and a Rs 2,00,000 security deposit. The deposit is refunded after counselling ends, but you lose it if you are allotted a seat and do not join. (MCC UG Counselling 2026 bulletin)
• MCC does not check or guarantee college fees. Its bulletin tells candidates to confirm the full fee with the college, especially at deemed universities, before filling choices. (MCC UG Counselling 2026 bulletin)
• At deemed universities a seat depends mostly on money, not rank. In MCC round 1 of 2025, deemed-university MBBS seats were allotted to candidates with ranks as high as AIR 7,34,672. KMC Manipal's deemed seats closed at AIR 52,466 and MM Institute, Mullana at AIR 2,76,229. (Computed from the official MCC round 1 allotment list, 2025)
• Seats at private colleges are counselled by the state, often in bands with different fees. Karnataka's 2025-26 list has four bands at private colleges: Government (G) quota, Private (P) quota, Other (Q, the management seats) and NRI. The same college charges very different fees in each band. (KEA fee structure 2025-26)
• A state fee committee fixes the fee at each private college. Uttar Pradesh fixes it by government notification under its 2006 Act on admissions and fees in private professional institutions, one college at a time. Maharashtra's Fee Regulating Authority does the same. (UP notification, 1 September 2026; Maharashtra FRA list 2025-26)

Fees, from official fee lists

• MM Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Mullana (MM deemed university, Haryana): MBBS tuition, Indian students

  Rs 18,00,000 in the first year, rising 10 per cent a year. The university's own table adds up to Rs 96,71,490 of tuition for 4.5 years. Hostel is extra at Rs 2,50,000 a year. NRI seats: USD 1,80,000 for the whole course. (2025-26)

• Dr D. Y. Patil Medical College, Pune (Dr D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, deemed university): MBBS

  Rs 27.00 lakh (listed as 'actual fee charged'; the list does not say whether this is per year, so check with the university) (2025-26)

• Karnataka government medical colleges (for comparison)

  Rs 64,350 a year (2025-26 (provisional))

• Karnataka private unaided colleges: Government (G) quota seat

  Rs 1,53,571 a year (2025-26 (provisional))

• Karnataka private unaided colleges: Private (P) quota seat

  Rs 12,00,117 a year (2025-26 (provisional))

• Vydehi Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Bengaluru: Other (Q, management) and NRI seats

  Rs 44,11,950 a year. Across Karnataka's list, Q and NRI seats run from about Rs 20 lakh to Rs 45.4 lakh a year. (2025-26 (provisional))

• Hind Institute of Medical Sciences, Sitapur (Uttar Pradesh, private): MBBS tuition

  Rs 13,60,690 a year (2026-27)

• Radha Govind Institute of Medical Sciences, Meerut (Uttar Pradesh, private): MBBS tuition

  Rs 15,99,973 a year (2026-27)

• Dr N. Y. Tasgaonkar Institute of Medical Science, Raigad (Maharashtra, private): lowest on the FRA list

  Rs 6,21,500 a year (tuition Rs 5,65,000 plus development fee Rs 56,500) (2025-26, not official)

• Vedantaa Institute of Medical Sciences, Palghar (Maharashtra, private): highest on the FRA list

  Rs 15,57,000 a year (tuition Rs 14,15,455 plus development fee Rs 1,41,545). Colleges whose fee the FRA had not yet decided charged an interim fee of Rs 8,50,000. (2025-26, not official)

The rules

Last Open (General) seat in a government college on the All India Quota, round 1 of 2025. Later rounds usually close later.

• BDS (dentistry)

  AIR 38,223 at Government Dental College, Dibrugarh (Open seat, All India Quota), MCC round 1, 2025

  Counselled by MCC, for the 15 per cent All India Quota at government dental colleges and for central and deemed university seats. The rest are counselled by each state's authority.. This is the last government BDS seat on the Open seat, non-PwD, in AIQ round 1. We worked it out from MCC's allotment list. The toughest was Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences, Delhi, at AIR 13,602. In the same round, deemed-university BDS seats went to ranks as high as AIR 9,88,990, so fees rather than rank decide those. State-quota seats close at different ranks in each state.

• BAMS (Ayurveda)

  AIR 72,243 at Taranath Government Ayurved College, Ballari (Open seat, All India Quota government), AACCC round 1, 2025

  Counselled by AACCC (AYUSH Admissions Central Counselling Committee, Ministry of AYUSH), for the 15 per cent All India Quota at government and government-aided colleges and for central, national and deemed institutes. The remaining seats go through state AYUSH counselling.. Worked out from AACCC's round 1 allotment list: Open seat, non-PwD, AIQ government colleges. The last Open seat taken by a General-category candidate closed at AIR 72,209, at Government Ayurveda College, Kannur. Management or paid seats at deemed universities in the same round went to AIR 8,43,532.

• BHMS (Homoeopathy)

  AIR 1,31,983 at Odisha Medical College of Homoeopathy and Research, Sambalpur (Open seat, All India Quota government), AACCC round 1, 2025

  Counselled by AACCC for All India Quota and central or deemed seats; state AYUSH counselling for the rest. Worked out from AACCC's round 1 allotment list: Open seat, non-PwD. Management or paid seats at deemed universities went to AIR 13,17,659 in the same round.

• BUMS (Unani)

  AIR 96,035 at Government Unani Medical College, Bengaluru (Open seat, All India Quota government), AACCC round 1, 2025

  Counselled by AACCC for All India Quota and central or deemed seats; state AYUSH counselling for the rest. Only a dozen AIQ government Open seats were filled in round 1, so the figure moves a lot from year to year.

• BSMS (Siddha)

  AIR 1,00,809 at Government Siddha Medical College, Tirunelveli (Open seat, All India Quota government), AACCC round 1, 2025

  Counselled by AACCC for All India Quota and central or deemed seats; state counselling (mainly Tamil Nadu) for the rest. Very few AIQ seats, so treat this as a rough guide only.

• BVSc and AH (veterinary science)

  AIR 72,054 at College of Veterinary Science, Julukie, Peren, Nagaland (Open seat, All India), VCI round 1, 2025

  Counselled by Veterinary Council of India (VCI), for 15 per cent of seats in veterinary colleges. The other 85 per cent go through state admissions, often run by the state veterinary university.. Worked out from VCI's round 1 list: the last Open seat, non-PwD, at a government college. The toughest was Madras Veterinary College, Chennai, where the first seat went at AIR 9,167. Private-sector colleges in the VCI list, such as Arawali Veterinary College in Sikar, took ranks up to AIR 1,05,576. VCI finished its 2026-27 rounds in September 2026, but we have not yet worked out the 2026 closing ranks.

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• To be registered in India, a student who studied medicine abroad must meet four conditions. The course must last at least 54 months. There must be at least 12 months of internship at the same foreign institution. The degree must be taught in English. The student must have studied the subjects in Schedule I. (NMC Foreign Medical Graduate Licentiate Regulations 2021, regulation 4(a), notified 18 November 2021)
• The graduate must also be registered or licensed to practise in the country that awarded the degree, on the same terms as that country's own citizens. (FMGL Regulations 2021, regulation 4(b))
• After returning, the graduate must do at least 12 months of supervised internship in India and clear the licensing test: the National Exit Test, or whatever test the NMC requires. (FMGL Regulations 2021, regulation 4(c) and 4(d))
• The whole course, training and internship must be done at the same foreign institution, outside India. No part may be done in India or in a third country. (FMGL Regulations 2021, Schedule I)
• The whole foreign course must be finished within 10 years of joining. (FMGL Regulations 2021, Schedule I)
• Any Indian citizen who wants to study medicine abroad must first qualify NEET-UG. The NEET result stays valid for 3 years for this purpose. (NMC, For Students to Study Abroad; NEET-UG 2026 bulletin)
• The NMC does not endorse any list of foreign medical universities. It tells families to get the fee, course content, duration and internship details directly from the university. (NMC, For Students to Study Abroad)
• Studying at a university that breaks these rules can make a student ineligible for FMGE and for registration in India. The NMC says this risk falls on the student alone. (NMC public notice, 8 August 2023; NMC advisory, 19 May 2025)
• In July 2025 the NMC told students not to join Central American Health and Sciences University, Columbus Central University and Washington University of Health and Sciences, all in Belize, or the Chirchik branch of Tashkent State Medical University in Uzbekistan. The Indian Embassy in Mexico and the Ministry of External Affairs had reported poor facilities, harassment, excessive fees and refusal to refund fees. (NMC Alert Note, July 2025)
• On 1 April 2026 the NMC issued an alert about Uzbekistan. It named Bukhara State Medical Institute, Samarkand State Medical University and Tashkent State Medical University, plus TIT Institute of Medical Sciences in Bangalore, which it describes as an offshore campus of TSMU's Termez branch. The Indian Embassy in Tashkent had reported students admitted beyond capacity, teaching not in English and malpractice by agents. (NMC Alert Note, 1 April 2026)
• Online classes taken during a foreign course must be made up with physical classes on site. The NMC issued detailed clarifications on this on 18 March 2026. (NMC public notice, 18 March 2026)
• The licensing exam today is FMGE, run by NBEMS. It is held twice a year, and NBEMS has a bulletin out for an October 2026 session. The law provides for a National Exit Test (NExT) to replace it, but NExT had not been held as of September 2026. (NMC Act 2019, section 15; NBEMS FMGE page)

How many pass India’s licensing exam (FMGE)

• FMGE 2024 (June and December sessions together)25.80 per cent: 20,382 passed out of 79,000 who appeared
• FMGE June 202518.6 per cent: 6,709 passed out of 36,037 who appeared (worked out from NBEMS totals)
• FMGE December 202523.9 per cent: 10,264 passed out of 42,868 who appeared (worked out from NBEMS totals)
• FMGE June 2026 (held 28 June 2026, result 7 July 2026)12.8 per cent: 4,635 passed out of 36,300 who appeared. The result list has 37,448 candidates in all, of whom 1,148 were absent and 20 had results withheld. We counted these from the list itself.

Costs

Red flags with agents

• The NEET-UG 2026 bulletin sets no limit on the number of attempts. (NTA, NEET-UG 2026 Information Bulletin)
• There is no upper age limit for NEET-UG. This follows NMC letters of 9 March 2022 and 13 January 2026. (NTA, NEET-UG 2026 Information Bulletin)
• The lower age limit is 17 years completed on or before 31 December of the exam year. For NEET 2026, General and EWS candidates had to be born on or before 31 December 2009. (NTA, NEET-UG 2026 Information Bulletin)
• A NEET result is used for admission in the year it is taken. You apply for counselling again after each new attempt. The one exception is foreign admissions, where the NMC treats a NEET result as valid for 3 years. (NMC, For Students to Study Abroad)
• Deemed-university seats in MCC counselling carry a Rs 2,00,000 security deposit, which you lose if you are allotted a seat and do not join. A student who might drop should choose options carefully. (MCC UG Counselling 2026 bulletin)

What to weigh

Advice, not rules.

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