NEET Result 2025: The Final Verified Numbers Explained

The NEET result 2025 for NEET-UG was declared by the National Testing Agency (NTA) on 14 June 2025: of 22,09,318 candidates who appeared, 12,36,531 qualified, a 55.96% pass rate. This is now a dated, historical record of that result, covering the final verified cutoff, topper, and category-wise numbers, plus what changed for the very different 2026 cycle that followed.

Key Takeaways

• The NEET result 2025 was declared on 14 June 2025: 12,36,531 candidates qualified out of 22,09,318 who appeared (22,76,069 had registered).

• Rajasthan's Mahesh Kumar topped NEET-UG 2025 with 686 out of 720 marks, at All India Rank 1.

• The 2025 qualifying cutoff was 144-686 marks (50th percentile) for UR/EWS and 113-143 marks (40th percentile) for OBC/SC/ST.

• Over 7.2 lakh of the qualified candidates were female against just over 5.14 lakh male, continuing a multi-year trend of higher female qualification numbers.

• The following year's cycle looked very different: NEET UG 2026's result followed a cancelled exam and a re-conducted paper, with a sharply higher cutoff of 213-715 for UR/EWS.

What was the NEET result 2025 exactly?

The NEET result 2025 for the undergraduate exam (NEET-UG) was declared online by the NTA on 14 June 2025, in two forms, a downloadable scorecard and a published merit list, both accessible via candidates' application number, date of birth, and security pin at the official NTA NEET portal. Of 22,76,069 candidates who had registered, 22,09,318 appeared, and 12,36,531 were declared qualified, a pass rate of roughly 55.96%.

Who topped NEET 2025?

Mahesh Kumar of Rajasthan topped NEET-UG 2025 with 686 out of 720 marks, securing All India Rank 1, followed closely by Utkarsh Awadhiya at rank 2. Several candidates tied on marks in the top ten, resolved through NTA's standard tie-breaking sequence:

1. Higher marks in Biology (Botany and Zoology combined).

2. If still tied, higher marks in Chemistry.

3. If still tied, higher marks in Physics.

4. If still tied, fewer incorrect answers across all three subjects.

5. If a tie still remains, a random process supervised by an independent expert committee.

What was the NEET UG 2025 cutoff?

The NEET UG 2025 qualifying cutoff was 144-686 marks (50th percentile) for the UR/EWS category and 113-143 marks (40th percentile) for OBC/SC/ST candidates, with a separate 129-143 mark band (45th percentile) for the UR-PwD category. These cutoffs determined only exam-qualification status; the far higher ranks needed for an actual government-college seat were set later, during MCC and state counselling, based on seat availability.

How did the 2025 result break down by gender and category?

Among the 12,36,531 candidates who qualified NEET-UG 2025, more than 7.2 lakh were female against just over 5.14 lakh male, continuing a pattern seen in recent NEET cycles where female qualification numbers have consistently outpaced male ones nationally. State-wise, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Rajasthan produced some of the largest qualified cohorts, reflecting both population size and NEET coaching density in those states.

What happened after the NEET result 2025 was declared?

Once the NEET result 2025 was out, the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) opened registration for All India Quota seats while individual states ran parallel state-quota counselling, both organised in several rounds ending in a final mop-up round. Candidates registered, indicated college and course preferences, and were allotted seats by a combination of rank, category reservation, and seat availability, with document verification required at the allotted college before admission was confirmed. Background on how NEET-UG is structured more broadly is documented on Wikipedia's NEET-UG entry.

Didn't qualify or miss your target rank in NEET 2025? What are the options now?

Missing a target rank in NEET 2025 does not close off a medical career; two realistic paths remain open. The first is reattempting NEET in a later cycle with a stronger, more structured preparation plan built around full-length mock tests and topic-wise practice. The second, increasingly common among students who qualify but don't clear a government-college cutoff, is MBBS abroad at an NMC-recognised university, which still requires a valid NEET-UG qualifying score but does not depend on an Indian college's rank cutoff.

How does the NEET 2025 result compare with the 2026 cycle?

The NEET UG 2026 cycle looked structurally different from 2025: after a leaked paper forced NTA to cancel the original 3 May 2026 exam and re-conduct it on 21 June 2026, the 2026 result showed a UR/EWS cutoff of 213-715, sharply higher than 2025's 144-686, on a smaller-than-usual qualifying pool relative to registrations. Full detail on that re-exam and its knock-on counselling timeline is covered in our NEET UG 2026 re-exam and counselling record.