Bachelor of Dental Surgery(BDS) is a 5-years undergraduate program and the only approved professional dental course in India. It is a compulsory course for the students aspiring to work as dentists at government or private hospitals. BDS is one of the most prestigious course after MBBS in India.

In India, for admission to BDS courses, it is mandatory for students to qualify a 10+2 exam or an equivalent degree with at least 85% from a recognized institute.
The eligibility of joining this course is by cracking NEET exams. With the knowledge of previous year's NEET cutoff , the percentile for each category of students can be predicted and it's information and furthermore details are mentioned in this below link :

https://medicine.careers360.com/articles/neet-cut-off

Hi,

BDS(Bachelor's of Dental Surgery) is a four year graduate program offered by the Dental Medical Colleges available. The course is done to make career in the field of dentistry and you can become dentist by it. To get admission into dental colleges, candidates need to get a valid score in NEET examination. For general category, anywhere between 400 or above score than fetch you into dental colleges. You can know more about the course here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.careers360.com/courses/bds-bachelor-of-dental-surgery

BDS ..stands for Bachelors of dental surgery

It is a 4 years programm

For further details of the stream you can go through the link provided below it will definately helps you

https://www.careers360.com/courses/bds-bachelor-of-dental-surgery

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Hello there,
You haven't mentioned the name of the examination. You can get admission into BDS colleges with your NEET rank. You need to score within 5000 in your state to get the best colleges under the Home State Quota. Talking about marks, you need to score around 500 marks approximately to get a good rank for BDS colleges. Now this marks vs rank varies every year depending on the difficulty of the paper,and the number of candidates appearing for it.
Hope this information helps you.
Good luck!!