NEET: Introduction, Eligibility, Syllabus and Exam Pattern

NEET:

National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test or NEET is a common entrance test for admission to various Undergraduate Medical courses like MBBS, BDS, BAMS etc. NEET is conducted annually by the National Testing Agency(NTA) which has been introduced in the year 2019 by MHRD.

Name of the Exam	National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test(NEET)
Conducting Body	National Testing Agency(NTA)
Frequency of Conductance	Annual
Mode of Application	Online
Mode of Exam	Offline
Language of Exam	13 languages including English and Hindi
Exam Duration	3 Hours
Mode Of Counselling	Online/Offline

Eligibility:

1. The candidate must have completed minimum age of 17 years by 31st December 2021. The provisional maximum age limit for general candidates is 25 years with a relaxation of 5 years for categories like SC, ST, OBC etc. 
2. Candidates appearing for NEET 2021 can be Indian Residential, Non-Resident Indians (NRIs), Overseas Citizen of India (OCI), Persons with Indian Origin (PIO), and Foreign Nationals.
3. Candidates who have either completed or are appearing for 10+2 or equivalent examination are eligible to appear in NEET 2021 exam.
4. Candidates must have studied Physics, Chemistry and Botany/Biotechnology in 10+2 or equivalent courses. 
5. Unreserved and General-EWS candidates must have secured at least 50% marks in aggregate of Physics, Chemistry and Biology/Biotechnology in qualifying examination. Candidates belonging to SC, ST or other backward classes must have secured at least 40% marks in qualifying examination. Those candidates who have received education abroad and wishing to get admission into the medical colleges must have passed in Physics, Chemistry, Biology/Biotechnology and English with 50% marks in class 12 and their equivalency recognized by the Associate of Indian Universities(AIU)

Syllabus:

Physics
Class 11		Class 12
Sr. No.	Units	Sr. No.	Units
1	Physical World and Measurements	1	Electrostatics
2	Kinematics	2	Current Electricity
3	Laws of Motion	3	Magnetic effects of Current and Magnetism
4	Work Energy and Power	4	Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating current
5	Motion of system of Particles and Rigid Body	5	Electromagnetic Waves
6	Gravitation	6	Optics
7	Properties of Bulk Matter	7	Dual nature of matter and radiation
8	Thermodynamics	8	Atoms and Nuclei
9	Behavior of Perfect Gas and Kinetic Theory	9	Electronic devices
10	Oscillations and waves
From neet.nta.nic.in

For detailed topic wise Physics syllabus, click here.

Chemistry
Class 11		Class 12
Sr. No.	Units	Sr. No.	Units
1	Some Basic concepts of Chemistry	1	Solid State
2	Structure of Atom	2	Solution
3	Classification of elements and periodicity in properties	3	Electrochemistry
4	Chemical Bonding and Molecular structure	4	Chemical Kinetics
5	States of Matter	5	Surface Chemistry
6	Thermodynamics	6	General Principles and Processes of Isolation of Elements
7	Equilibrium	7	p block Elements
8	Redox Reactions	8	d and f Block Elements
9	Hydrogen	9	Coordination Compounds
10	s Block elements	10	Halo-alkanes and Haloarenes
11	p block elements	11	Alcohols, Phenol and Ethers
12	Organic chemistry - Some basic Principles and Techniques	12	Aldehydes, Ketones and Carboxylic acids
13	Hydrocarbon	13	Organic compounds containing Nitrogen
14	Environmental Chemistry	14	Biomolecules
		15	Polymers
		16	Chemistry in everyday life

For detailed topic wise Chemistry syllabus, click here.

Biology
Class 11		Class 12
Sr. No.	Units	Sr. No.	Units
1	Diversity in Living Organisms	1	Reproduction
2	Structural Organization in Animals and Plants	2	Genetics and Evolution
3	Cell Biology	3	Biology and Human welfare
4	Plant Physiology	4	Biotechnology and its Applications
5	Animal Physiology	5	Ecology and Environment

For detailed topic wise Biology syllabus, click here.

Exam Pattern:

• Duration of Paper - 3 Hours
• Number of questions - 200
• Maximum marks - 720
• Each Paper consists of 4 subjects - Physics, Chemistry, Botany and Zoology
• Each subject consists of two sections - Section A and Section B
• Each Section A consists of 35 questions, out of which each question is to be attempted by a candidate.
• Each Section B consists of 15 questions, out of which only 10 are to be attempted by a candidate.
• Correct question yield +4 marks, while -1 marks for wrong questions. Skipped questions will be marked as 0.

Sr. No.	Subjects	Sections	Number of    Questions	Marks	Type of questions
1	Physics	Section A	35	140	Multiple   Choice   Questions
		Section B	15	40
2	Chemistry	Section A	35	140
		Section B	15	40
3	Botany	Section A	35	140
		Section B	15	40
4	Zoology	Section A	35	140
		Section B	15	40
Total = 720