After much wait, National Testing Agency (NTA) finally declared results of NEET UG 2022 on Wednesday night (September 7). This year, Tanishka, a girl from Rajasthan who has scored 715 marks has been named the all India topper. This is despite four students scoring the same marks and percentile.

The other three students who scored 715 marks or 99.9997733 are Delhi boy Vatsa Ashish Batra, and Hrishikesh Nagbhushan Gangule, Rucha Pawashe from Karnataka.

The same was observed in 2020 as well, when 2 students – Soyeb Aftab and Akanksha Singh – secured perfect 720/720 marks but the former was given AIR 1 due to his age following the NTA’s tie-breaking policy. Back then, the ultimate rule for breaking ties was to give a better rank to the candidate who is older in age. Since both of them had secured perfect marks, the age factor must have been the deciding criterion.

This, however, changed last year. NTA had removed the age rule from the tie-breaking policy and as a result 3 students who scored 720/720 were named toppers.

In 2022, NTA again made modifications to the tie-breaking rules. Now, if 2 or more candidates secure same marks in the exam, ties between them are resolved in this order:

a. Candidate obtaining higher marks/percentile score in Biology (Botany & Zoology) in the test is given priority, followed by

b. Candidate obtaining higher marks/percentile score in Chemistry in the Test, followed by,

c. Candidate obtaining higher marks/percentile score in Physics in the Test, followed by,

d. Candidate with less proportion of the number of attempted incorrect answers and correct answers in all the subjects in the Test,

e. Candidate with less proportion of a number of attempted incorrect answers and correct answers in Biology (Botany & Zoology), followed by

f. Candidate with less proportion of a number of attempted incorrect answers and correct answers in Chemistry, followed by

g. Candidate with less proportion of a number of attempted incorrect answers and correct answers in Physics, followed by

h. Candidate older in age, followed by

i. Application number in ascending order.

Age factor has been taken into consideration again. Now, even a candidate who registers for the exam early has an edge over another who registers late.

The Government of India has no plans to merge NEET-UG and JEE Main with the CUET in 2023. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has said that the central government has no immediate plan to merge the three national-level undergraduate entrance tests.

The speculations around the merger of the MBBS entrance test, National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) and Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main with Common University Entrance Test (CUET) have been put to rest by the Education Minister. Pradhan while speaking today has said that there is no immediate plan to merge NEET-UG and JEE Main with the CUET.

Giving a major relief to NEET and JEE aspirants, Pradhan said that there is a school of thought to merge the two exams with CUET, however, the government has not taken any decision in this regard till now. The three exams, NEET, JEE and CUET are all conducted by the NTA.

“Nobody should be worried, the way you have been studying and preparing till now, continue with that. There is no immediate plan to merge these exams with CUET,” Pradhan said.

Last month, University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman said that there are plans to combine NEET and JEE Main with CUET in an effort to bring all entrance exams under a single umbrella. UGC Chairperson M Jagadesh Kumar said that the aim is to create a single entrance exam for all purposes.

He said that the move is aimed toward ‘one nation, one entrance exam’ in line with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.

The CUET launched for all the central universities in 2022, is likely to be held twice from 2023 onwards with an aim to eliminate the need to appear in multiple entrance exams.

The National Testing Agency (NTA) will declare the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test undergraduate NEET UG result 2022 today, September 7, at neet.nta.nic.in. Along with the result, the category-wise cutoff for NEET 2022 will also be released. The NEET UG 2022 results download link will be updated here, once it is active.

The NEET UG 2022 scorecard will mention the personal details of the candidate, subject-wise scores, total scores, All India Quota (AIQ) rank and percentile. Along with the results, the NTA will also publish the NEET 2022 final answer key on the official website. The final answer key published by the NTA for NEET 2022 will be available in a PDF format and cannot be challenged. This year, the single largest UG medical entrance exam was held on July 17, 2022, in pen and paper mode.

NEET Result 2022 Highlights

• Exam Conducting Body- National Testing Agency
• Exam name- National Eligibility cum Entrance Test
• NEET 2022 result date- By September 7, 2022
• Result time- To be announced
• Official NEET result direct link- To be available

Over 16 lakh students took the NEET UG 2022 exam which was held in 3,750 centres all over the country. A total of 18,72,341 candidates registered for the undergraduate medical entrance exam, out of which 16,14,777 aspirants appeared. Based on the NEET 2022 results, around 91,927 MBBS, 27,698 BDS, 52,720 AYSH seats, and 603 BVSc & AH seats will be offered in 612 medical and 317 dental colleges.

Candidates who will qualify for NEET UG results 2022 will have to take part in the NEET counselling session which will be conducted by the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) for 15% All India Quota seats. The counselling for 85% state Quota seats will be conducted by the counselling authorities of the respective state. Keep in touch to know the latest updates on NEET UG 2022 total seats, top colleges, cut-off and more.