New Tie-Breaking Rules for NEET-UG 2024, Check Here

The Inter-se-merit of Candidates for Tie-Breaking

The National Testing Agency has been conducting the NEET-(UG) since 2019 and it has announced to open registrations for the NEET UG 2024 from 9 February, Friday. NEET (UG) is a Common and uniform National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET-UG) for admission to undergraduate medical education in all medical institutions in India.

Apart from the NEET-UG 2024 registration information, NTA has also announced new Tie-breaking rules for NEET-UG 2024. As per the previous NEET tie-break rules till NEET-UG 2023, scores in biology (zoology and botany), chemistry and physics– were considered and in that order.

If the tie continued, negative marks would become a factor. If the scores still remained equal, age was a factor with the older candidate getting the higher rank.

However, now NMC has changed the tie-breaking rules for NEET-UG from NEET-UG 2024. It has announced that in case of tie in NEET-UG 2024 marks, the respective marks obtained in physics followed by chemistry and then biology will be considered and in that order.

If the tie continues, then eligible candidates will be selected from the draw lots by using a computer, with no human intervention. These rules will be applicable from NEET UG Exam 2024.

Online Submission of Application Form 09 February to 09 March 2024 (up to 09:00 PM)

Last date of successful transaction of fee through Credit/Debit Card/Net-Banking/UPI is 09 March 2024 (up to 11:50 PM)

Fee Payable by Candidate
Category of Candidate Centres In India (Fee in ₹)
General ₹ 1700/-
General-EWS/ OBC-NCL* ₹ 1600/-
SC/ST/PwBD/Third Gender ₹ 1000/-
Processing charges & Goods and Services Tax (GST) are to be paid by the candidate, as applicable
Date of Examination 05 May 2024 (Sunday)
Duration of Examination 200 minutes (03 hours 20 Minutes)
Timing of Examination 02:00 PM to 05:20 PM (IST)
Centre of NEET (UG) – 2024 Examination As indicated on the Admit Card
Display of Recorded Responses and Answer
Website(s) https://www.nta.ac.in/, https://www.nta.ac.in/
Declaration of Result on the NTA website 14 June 2024

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Aabshar Hassan Quazi, the former Principal Correspondent of Hindustan Times, is a passionate and skillful English content/blog writer and profound communicator. Has forte in weaving words with facts for preparation of content-rich educational blogs and updates about competitive/entrance examinations beneficial for the students.