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ADITYA KUMAR Student Expert 13th Jun, 2021

Hi

Yes , after 12th  RIOS i. e rural institute of Open Schooling  you are eligible for NEET 2021 examination .

This is because,

As of now students of all recognised open boards are eligible for Neet examination and RIOS is a recognised open board so there will be no problem. You can check its recognition at its official website for which link  is given below

http://www.rios.ac.in/recognition.html

So, after 12th from RIOS , you are eligible for Neet 2021 examination provided you must have passed it with physics, chemistry ,biology/biotechnology and English and must have got:-

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  • at least  50  % in aggregate of PCB  i.e Physics, Chemistry and Biology/Biotechnology  in 12th examination  if belongs to general category

  • at least  40%  in aggregate of PCB if belongs to st/Obc/ Sc

  • at least 45 % in aggregate of PCB in case of pwd candidates to be eligible.

Also,

* to be eligible for neet 2021 one has to be at least 17 years old or more by 31st December 2021

* There is no upper age limit for Neet 2021

* There's no limit for the maximum number of attempts/times one can appear in NEET.


For detailed information about neet examination eligibility go through our page for which link is provided below; -

https://medicine.careers360.com/articles/neet-eligibility-criteria

Coming to UPSC

there will be no problem if you do 12th from RIOS  even if you want to appear for UPSC, but for UPSC  you will have to do graduation as RIOS doesn't offer graduation. For UPSC you can do graduation in any discipline, you can even it from Open Universities, just make sure that it is recognised one like IGNOU etc.

For reference, UPSC eligibility  criteria is provided below:-

*You  must  have  a  bachelor's  degree in any, discipline    from a  recognised university.

*Minimum  age  limit :-  you  need to  be at least  21  years  old   to be  eligible as on 1st of August of the year of filling the form i. e as on 1st August 2021 for UPSC 2021.

*Maximum  age  limit :-  32 years , also there's 3  year  relaxation on upper age limit for  obc and of  5 years  for sc/st category.

For detailed  information related to UPSC eligibility criteria ,  you can visit our page at

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/upsc-ias-eligibility-criteria/amp


Thank you

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Comments (1)
25th Oct, 2021
Sir from where you got this info because no one is said that RIOS are applicable for neet neither anyone denied , except you sir ,
And I only saw NIOS boards students who applied for neet and are studying MBBS
Can you tell where you got the news?
It's really urgent
Reply ASAP
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