NEET Cutoff by Category Calculator

The NEET Cutoff by Category Calculator tells you one specific thing: whether your NEET-UG score clears the category qualifying cutoff published for the NEET-UG 2025 admission cycle. You enter your total marks (out of 720) and pick your reservation category, and it reports whether you are counted as qualified, the exact marks threshold for that category, the fixed qualifying percentile behind it, and how many marks you sit above or below the line.

“Qualifying” here means being eligible to enter the merit list and register for counselling. It is not the same as securing a seat — the marks needed to actually be allotted an MBBS or BDS seat are far higher and vary by college, quota and round.

Under the National Medical Commission (NMC) Graduate Medical Education Regulations, the minimum eligibility for NEET-UG is set as a fixed percentile, not a fixed mark. The National Testing Agency (NTA) then publishes the raw marks that stand at each category’s percentile after the results are declared. The comparison this tool performs is simply:

qualified = your score ≥ qualifyingMarks[category]

• 50th percentile — UR / General and EWS (144 marks in 2025).
• 45th percentile — UR/General-PwBD and EWS-PwBD (127 marks in 2025).
• 40th percentile — OBC, SC, ST and their PwBD variants (113 marks in 2025).

The comparison is inclusive: a score exactly equal to the published lower bound (e.g. 113 for OBC) does qualify. Because the reserved-category cutoffs are lower, the same raw score can qualify for one category and fall short for another — which is why the calculator asks for your category, not just your score.

Consider a candidate scoring 143. That is one mark below the UR/EWS cutoff of 144, so it does not qualify under EWS — but the same 143 comfortably clears the 113-mark OBC cutoff. The engine below runs the identical comparison the calculator uses.

The full published lower-bound qualifying marks for the 2025 cycle, by category and the percentile behind each:

If you are converting board or semester marks to compare programmes, the CGPA to Percentage Calculator and the SGPA to Percentage Calculator handle those conversions. For other national entrance exams, the CUET Score Calculator works out normalised marks the same evidence-based way.

Because the qualifying percentile is fixed by regulation but the paper’s difficulty and the candidate pool change every year, the marks at that percentile swing considerably from cycle to cycle. Seven years of published NTA cutoffs make the point:

2024 shows the revised figures issued after the grace-mark correction and partial re-test — not the originally announced 164 / 129. The swing from 117 (2022) to 213 (2026) for UR/EWS is why last year’s cutoff is a poor predictor of this year’s: treat the current cycle’s published marks as the only authoritative line. For the full per-year ranges, topper marks and an eligibility check against any past year, see the NEET Cutoff & Qualifying Percentile History tool, which this table is drawn from.

This calculator is deliberately narrow. Read these before relying on the verdict:

• It is pinned to the NEET-UG 2025 published qualifying marks and the NMC-fixed percentiles. A future cycle’s marks require an update once confirmed from the official NTA result notice.
• True qualification is percentile-based. Because the live candidate-score distribution needed to compute a real percentile is not published, the tool compares your raw score against the year’s published marks as the defensible proxy — it does not present a “score ÷ topper score” approximation as an official percentile.
• The qualifying cutoff is far lower than the marks or rank needed to secure a government MBBS/BDS seat. Admission (closing-rank) cutoffs are college-, category-, quota- and round-specific and are not modelled here.
• It does not model the 85% state-quota vs 15% All-India-Quota lists, domicile rules, certificate validity, or counselling tie-breakers.
• PwBD qualification also requires statutory minimum benchmark disability certification (≥ 40% under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016), which this calculator does not verify.