Students from state fare better in NEET-UG

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21.01.2022

Mumbai: Performances of state students in NEET-UG 2021 has improved over the previous year. The provisional merit list for state students was released late Wednesday night, almost three months after the NEET-UG results were announced. The 100th state rank was bagged by a student with an all-India rank of 1,165 this year. Last year, the corresponding rank was 1,874, indicating students’ performance in terms of rank is better than last year.

On the state merit list,12 from the state bagged all-India ranks within 100, as opposed to only two last year. A few top-ranking students, however, directly apply to central universities such as AIIMS, so may have not featured on the state list. The number of girls qualifying in the top100 state ranks in NEET-UG, however, dropped to 30, from last year’s 41. In all, 59,437 students registered for admissions to health science courses this year, as opposed to last year’s 64,645.

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