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ADITYA KUMAR Student Expert 14th Apr, 2022

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Yes, NIOS board students are eligible for Neet 2022 examination .

This is because,

Eligibility of  students from NIOS and other open boards is in Supreme Court but until the supreme court gives its judgement ,students of nios and all other recognised open boards are eligible for Neet examination provided they fulfill Neet eligibility criteria given  below :-


-----------) Qualification required :-As per Neet eligibility to be eligible you must be either appearing for 12th board examination  or should have passed 12th board examination with physics, chemistry ,biology/biotechnology and English as core subject.

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†††Important Note :- Students with Biology as an additional subject are also provisionally eligible for neet. Also recognised open board students are eligible  until Supreme Court gives its judgement over it.

-----------)  Percentage required :- You must get

  • 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.


-------------------)  Age limit :-

  • Lower age limit:- to be eligible for neet  one has to be at least 17 years old or more by 31st December in the year of appearing for the examination .

  • Upper age limit :-There's no upper age limit for NEET. Earlier there was upper age limit  of 25 years which was pending in supreme court, on 9th march 2022 NMC in its notice has removed upper age limit. For details about it checkout :- https://medicine.careers360.com/articles/neet-number-of-attempts-and-age-limit

--------------------) There's no attempt limit for 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

You should fill NEET 2022 application form. NEET 2022 application form has been released at its official website i. e neet.nta.nic.in,

>>>>>>>>>>> NEET 2022 examination important dates are given below:-

  • Application form release:- 6th April 2022

  • Last form filling date:- 6th May 2022 upto 11:50 pm

  • Last date to pay application fee :- 7th May 2022 upto 11:50 pm

  • NEET 2022 Examination date :- 17th july 2022

Application form filling process is provided below:-

----------------------------------) visit the official website of neet i. e neet.nta.nic.in and register yourself

----------------------------------) fill in your details in the application form

----------------------------------) upload your documents

----------------------------------) pay the application fee

----------------------------------) take a printout of the confirmation page


To get complete information about documents to be uploaded and application form filling process go through

https://medicine.careers360.com/articles/neet-application-form/amp

Thank you


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