Recently The National Testing Agency (NTA) released the notification for the NEET UG Exam 2024 on its official website nta.ac.in. This text indicates that they will conduct the NEET UG exam on 05th May 2024 across the country. The number of candidates in the year 2024 is likely to increase further compared to last year. Let us now briefly know about all the latest updates related to the NEET UG 2024 exam date.
NEET 2024 Exam Overview
Let us tell you that the NEET UG exam for admission to undergraduate programs in medical colleges across the country will be held on 05 May 2024. The registration process for the NEET UG entrance exam candidates will start from the first week. March 2024, which will continue till the first week of April.
Candidates who clear the NEET UG exam can get admission in top courses like MBBS, BDS, BUMS, BAMS, BSMS, BNYS and BVSc. We are providing all the necessary information to the candidates about the NEET UG 2024 exam date, which you can see in the table given below:-
| Exam Name | NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) |
| Conducted Body | National Testing Agency (NTA) |
| Application Begins | March 2024 |
| Application Ends | April 2024 |
| Application Fee | General/OBC: 3500/- SC/ST/EWS: 2500/- |
| Admit Card | April Last Week |
| Exam Date | 5 May, 2024 |
| NEET Result | First Week of June 2024 |
| NEET Counseling Starts | 2nd Week of June 2024 |
| Mode of Exam | offline |
| Time Duration | 3 Hours |
| Medium of Language | English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Oriya, Kannada and Urdu |
| Exam Type | Objective (MCQs) |
| No. of Questions | 180 Questions |
| Exam Sections | Physics (180 Marks) Chemistry (180 Marks) Biology (Botany & Zoology) (360 Marks) |
| Maximum Marks | 720 Marks |
| Marking Scheme | For Each Right Answer: 4 Marks For Each Wrong Answer: -1 Marks |
| Official Website | https://neet.nta.nic.in/ |
NEET Exam Pattern 2024
NEET UG exam has divided into three parts, which include Chemistry, Physics and Biology subjects. In the exam, there will be 45-45 questions from Chemistry and Physics papers, due to which both the papers will be of 180-180 marks. In contrast, the Biology subject will have questions of 360 marks, which will consist of 45 questions from the Botany subject and 45 questions from the Zoology subject.
| Subject | Section | Questions | Maximum Marks |
| Physics | A | 35 | 140 |
| B | 10 | 40 | |
| Chemistry | A | 35 | 140 |
| B | 10 | 40 | |
| Botany | A | 35 | 140 |
| B | 10 | 40 | |
| Zoology | A | 35 | 140 |
| B | 10 | 40 | |
| Total | 180 | 720 | |
NEET UG exam will be of 180 minutes i.e. 3 hours in which candidates will have to solve 180 questions of 720 marks. Like many other competitive exams, NEET also has a provision for negative marking. Let us tell you that for each correct question the candidate will be given 4 marks, while for each wrong answer, 1 mark will be deducted. Note that there will be no negative marking for unanswered questions.
NEET Exam 2024 Date
NBEMS will conduct the NEET PG exam 2024 on 7th July. This examination will be in pen-and-paper mode. The duration of the exam will be 3 hours. Although they had initially planned to conduct this exam on March 3, due to some reason they rescheduled the date.
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