NEET Score Calculator

The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET-UG) is India's single entrance exam for undergraduate medical and dental admissions, conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA). Once the provisional answer key is out, most candidates want the same thing straight away: a realistic estimate of their marks before the official scorecard is published. This calculator does exactly that — enter how many questions you got right and how many you got wrong, and it applies the official +4 / −1 / 0 marking scheme to give you your raw score out of 720.

It computes the raw score (marks) only. It deliberately does not estimate percentile, All-India Rank or qualifying status, because those depend on the full spread of scores across every candidate in your year — data the NTA only releases after the result.

NEET-UG uses a fixed, transparent marking rule that is identical across Physics, Chemistry, Botany and Zoology. There is no subject weighting and no partial marking:

Score = (Correct × 4) − (Incorrect × 1)
Maximum marks = Total questions × 4 = 180 × 4 = 720
Unattempted = Total questions − Correct − Incorrect

Every question is worth the same four marks regardless of subject, and the 180-question paper splits evenly across the four sections:

Because the weighting is identical across subjects, there is no advantage to treating one section's marks as “worth more” — a correct Physics answer and a correct Botany answer both add exactly four marks to the same 720-mark total.

The table below is generated by the same engine that powers the calculator above, so the numbers here always match what the tool returns. Every row assumes the standard 180-question, 720-mark paper.

Notice how the “cautious, high skip rate” row (90 correct, 45 incorrect, 45 skipped) lands at 315 — an aggressive guesser who converted those 45 skips into wrong answers would drop another 45 marks. That gap is the cost of over-guessing.

Because unanswered questions score 0 while a wrong answer costs −1, the maths favours skipping only when you are genuinely clueless. If you can eliminate even one or two options, an educated guess usually has positive expected value; a pure blind guess between four options does not. Treat this as a rule of thumb, not a guarantee — your own accuracy on partial-knowledge questions is what actually decides it.

• Confident answer — mark it; the +4 is worth far more than the risk.
• Two options eliminated — an educated guess is usually worth it.
• No idea at all — leaving it blank protects your score from the −1 penalty.

Most self-calculated scores that don't match the official scorecard trace back to one of a few counting slips, not a flaw in the marking scheme itself:

• Forgetting to subtract the penalty. It's easy to multiply correct answers by 4 and stop there — the −1 for every incorrect answer has to come off that subtotal, not be ignored.
• Treating a skipped question as a wrong one. An unattempted question is worth 0, not −1. Double-count these by mistake and your estimate comes in lower than your real score.
• Using the wrong total-questions count. If you're checking an older 2021–2024 paper, remember only the 180 questions that were actually scored count — not the up-to-200 printed on that year's paper.
• Working from the provisional answer key instead of the final one. The NTA can revise answers after the objection window closes; a count taken against the provisional key can shift once the final key is published.
• Mixing up marks with percentile. Your score out of 720 and your eventual percentile are two different numbers — a high percentile doesn't mean a high percentage of 720, and this calculator only reports the former (see the FAQ below for why).

This estimate rests on a few assumptions you should keep in mind:

• It uses the standard NEET-UG 2025 pattern of 180 compulsory questions for 720 marks. From 2021–2024 the paper printed up to 200 questions with an optional Section B, but only 180 were scored — the per-question rule was identical, so set the total-questions field to the count that actually counted (still 180).
• The +4 / −1 / 0 constants are set by the NTA each cycle in its Information Bulletin. If a future year revises the scheme, re-verify against that year's bulletin before relying on the result.
• Your official scorecard can differ slightly from a self-estimate: the NTA sometimes drops a disputed question (awarding it to everyone) or accepts multiple correct options after reviewing objections to the provisional key.
• The estimate is only as accurate as your correct/incorrect counts. Derive them carefully from the official answer key against your recorded responses.

Once you have your raw score, you may want to express it as a percentage of 720 or line it up against other entrance results. Our CUET Score Calculator applies the same style of +5 / −1 marking used by the CUET-UG, and the Percentage Calculator is handy for converting any raw mark into a percentage of the maximum. If you are also tracking board results, the CBSE Percentage Calculator converts subject marks into an overall board percentage.