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NEET PG Exam Pattern

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NEET PG · checked 19 September 2026

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19September 2026

Checked 19 September 2026

NEET PG: the facts that matter now

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Bulletin and applications 1 July; applications closed 21 July; edit window 25–28 July; test-city intimation 11 August; admit cards 25 August…
2026 cycle
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2,73,096 registered, 2,65,980 appeared at 1,111 centres; about 2,445 candidates at two Jaipur centres (iON Digital Zone Sitapura) sat a…
2026 turnout
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National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) on a computer-based platform, once a year, for MD, MS, PG Diploma, post-MBBS DNB and…
Conducted by
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180 multiple-choice questions, 720 marks, 3 hours 30 minutes, in five time-bound sections of 36 questions and 42 minutes each (revised for 2026…
Pattern

Pattern

NEET PG — NEET PG exam pattern 2026: 180 questions, five time-bound sections, marking and cut-offs

NEET PG is one computer-based sitting of 3 hours 30 minutes: since 2026, 180 multiple-choice questions for 720 marks, in five time-bound sections of 36 questions and 42 minutes each, marked +4 for a correct answer and −1 for a wrong one. The 2025 paper had 200 questions for 800 marks in sections of 40, so 2025 cut-offs and scores are on a different scale.

Structure.
Item	Detail
Questions and marks	180 MCQs, 720 marks, English (200 and 800 until 2025)
Sections	A to E, 36 questions and 42 minutes each; no return to a closed section
Marking	+4 / −1 / 0
Shift	Single (9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. in 2026); no normalisation
Content	All 19 MBBS subjects, clinical and applied

Qualifying percentiles, and the 2025 cut-offs out of 800; the 2026 cut-offs come with the result on the 720-mark scale.
Category	Percentile	2025 cut-off	2025 lowered (third round)
General and EWS	50th	276	103 (7th percentile)
General PwBD	45th	255	90 (5th)
SC, ST, OBC and their PwBD	40th	235	−40 (0th)

Tie-break

Fewer wrong answers in the whole paper, then fewer in Sections A, B, C, D and E in order, then the higher MBBS aggregate (or FMGE marks) entered in the form, then the older candidate — which is why an accurate MBBS percentage in the application matters.

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