NEET Qualifying Percentile & Cutoff Marks History Calculator

It's the minimum percentile rank a candidate must reach in their category to be declared 'qualified' for NEET-UG. Under the NMC's Graduate Medical Education Regulations, it is fixed at the 50th percentile for UR/EWS (general) candidates and the 40th percentile for SC/ST/OBC candidates, and has held steady since the 2019 amendment.

No. Qualifying the cutoff only makes you eligible to participate in counselling. The actual marks needed to get a seat (the admission or 'closing rank' cutoff) depend on the specific college, state quota, category and counselling round, and are almost always much higher than the bare qualifying cutoff shown here.

The qualifying PERCENTILE (50th / 40th) is fixed, but the MARKS at which a candidate reaches that percentile depend on how the whole cohort scored that year — a tougher paper produces a lower cutoff in marks, and vice versa. That's why 2022's UR cutoff was 117 while 2026's was 213.

NTA initially published a UR cutoff of 720-164 (reserved 163-129) but revised it downward to 720-162 (reserved 161-127) after correcting a grace-marks controversy and holding a partial re-test for affected candidates. This calculator uses the REVISED figures; a candidate scoring exactly 163 or 164 would be classified differently under the two versions, so we flag this year specifically.

The original NEET-UG 2026 exam was cancelled and a Re-NEET was conducted, with results declared on 16 July 2026. Because it followed a disrupted exam cycle, treat 2026's cutoff (UR/EWS 715-213) as an outlier year rather than a typical trend point.

Yes. NEET-UG uses +4 for a correct answer and -1 for a wrong one, so a candidate who attempts many questions incorrectly can end up with a negative raw score (as low as -180 in theory). A negative score will never meet any year's cutoff.

NTA uses an equipercentile method: percentile = 100 x (number of candidates in your session scoring at or below your raw score) / (total candidates who appeared in your session). This is NOT the same as dividing your score by the topper's score — that shortcut would never show a non-topper reaching the 100th percentile even at the very top, which contradicts NTA's own published rule that the highest scorer is always the 100th percentile.

No. EWS (Economically Weaker Section) candidates share the general/UR qualifying percentile of 50 — EWS is not given a separately relaxed percentile the way SC/ST/OBC candidates are.

PwD candidates get a further-relaxed qualifying percentile — 45th for General-PwD, roughly matching the 40th-percentile reserved-category range for reserved-PwD sub-categories. This calculator's year-by-year lookup does not include PwD-specific marks; check the official NTA notification for your year and sub-category.

No. Clearing the qualifying cutoff only makes you eligible to register for counselling (state or All India Quota). Seat allotment then depends on your NEET rank, category, domicile, chosen colleges and the number of available seats that year.

cutoffLow is the minimum mark needed to clear that year/category's qualifying percentile. cutoffHigh is the top of that category's range for the year — for UR/EWS it's the topper's raw score; for SC/ST/OBC it's one mark below that year's UR/EWS cutoffLow, mirroring how NTA itself publishes reserved-category ranges.

Each year's exact category-wise cutoff marks are published in NTA's official NEET-UG result notification (neet.nta.nic.in) for that year — always check the notification for the specific year you're interested in, since NTA has revised a published cutoff before (2024).

The same. NTA publishes one combined mark range for OBC, SC and ST candidates each year, because all three share the identical 40th-percentile qualifying threshold — there is no separate OBC-only, SC-only or ST-only cutoff figure in the official notification. That's why this calculator groups them under a single 'SC/ST/OBC' category rather than three.