Aspirants find NEET moderately difficult, lengthy; physics paper tough

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Aspirants find NEET moderately difficult, lengthy; physics paper tough

1 of 2 Testing time: Students and parents outside the exam centre at New College on Sunday. R. Ragu

Meghna M.

CHENNAI  04.05.2026

Candidates were greeted with applause as they left the exam centres after writing the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET UG) here on Sunday.

They said that while the exam was moderately difficult compared to last year, it was lengthy.

More than 1 lakh students had registered to write NEET in Tamil Nadu.

Unmindful of the scorching sun, candidates arrived at their centres by 11 a.m. to complete the verification of their documents and undergo frisking, before entering the exam hall by 1.30 p.m.

Harshitha S., who wrote the exam for the first time, said that while physics was tough, biology and chemistry were moderate.

Rakshitha D., who has been pursuing NEET coaching for the past two years, found physics tough. “If there were more NCERT-based questions, it would have been better,” she said.

Many repeaters

The exam also continued to see many NEET repeaters, several of whom said the matriculation education took away a year that was necessary to prepare for NEET.

Writing the exam for the second time, Rekha (name changed) was worried about her performance. “I feel disheartened that I took a year off to prepare for the exam, and I am not happy with my performance. I studied for nearly 16 hours a day. Biology was very lengthy. It did not go as expected,” she said.

Varsha R., who wrote the exam for the third time, said the exam was moderately difficult compared to last year’s.

“It takes us nearly a year to understand NCERT and its syllabus. Pursuing matriculation did leave us at a slight disadvantage. While scholarship for government school students have helped in the form of 7.5% reservation, we are not given adequate coaching to pursue our dreams,” she said.