How many students appeared for NEET-UG 2024?

Edited By: MADE EASY TEAM | Updated on Jul 31, 2024 11:34 AM IST | # NEET

National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, NEET is one of the most important and popular single stage exam for students who aspire to have a career in the medical field. Although, NEET is conducted for UG and PG level, but here we’ll confine our discussion around NEET UG.

Currently, NEET is an exam with a huge number of applicants. If we talk about numbers, then in the year 2024, more than 24 lakh aspirants filled out the form for NEET 2024, which is about 16% more than the last year. The increase was accounted for the higher participation of female applicants.

In the year 2024, NEET was scheduled on 5th May 2024 and the result were declared on 4th June 2024. According to the National Testing Agency NTA, this year, approximately 23,30,000 candidates appeared in NEET 2024, which is nearly 14.5% more than the previous year. In this blog, MENIIT will provide some information on the number of aspirants in NEET 2024 and the category-wise distribution of aspirants.

Total aspirants in NEET 2024

Since ancient times, medical has been considered as one of the most prestigious and noble professions in India. Here, doctors are considered gods. That’s the reason why even after so many advancements in science and the technical world, the craze for MBBS is still increasing day by day. However, as every individual is different and has different capabilities, it is not possible for everyone to become a doctor. Therefore, to filter out the potential candidates, government body conducts medical entrance exam. Till 2012, AIPMT was the medical entrance examination, and CBSE was responsible for conducting AIPMT. However, in 2013, NEET replaced AIPMT as the medical entrance examination and in 2019, National testing agency (NTA) replaced CBSE as the exam conducting body.

Despite the changes in the exam pattern and name, the craze remains the same—not the same; it is increasing day by day. The participation of the candidates is an important parameter in deciding the competitiveness of the exam. It is the sole exam for admission into different medical courses like MBBS, BDS, BUMS, BAMS, BHMS, etc.

According to the NTA, in the year 2024, total 24,06,079 numbers of candidates registered for the NEET 2024. The gender wise distribution of candidates is given in the table below:

Gender	Applicants
Male	10,29,198
Female	13,76,863
Transgender	18

In the year 2024, the total number of registrations increased by nearly 16.85% than the last year registrations. The number of male candidates increased by 15.71% and female candidates increased by 17.84%.

The category wise distribution of candidates is given in the table below.

Category	Number of Candidates
UR	647260
SC	356727
ST	157115
OBC	1054277
EWS	190700

In the year 2024, the registrations under the UR category increased by 8.17%, 19.72% in SC, 20.46% in ST, 20.12% in OBC, and 24.34% in Gen-EWS.

Out of a total 24,06,079 candidates, 24,02,774 were from India, 1304 were NRIs, 805 were OCIs, and 1196 were foreign nationals. In the year 2024, 23,33,297 candidates appeared in the examination, and about 13.16 lakh were qualified.

Uttar Pradesh has the largest number of applicants followed by Maharashtra and Rajasthan.

The distribution of candidates in terms of number of applications from these three states is given below:

State	Registered	Appeared	Qualified
Uttar Pradesh	344599	335004	165047
Maharashtra	282051	275457	142665
Rajasthan	178756	174893	121240

Total aspirants in NEET 2023

Let us have an analysis of NEET 2023 data. In the year 2023, approximately 20,87,462 candidates registered for NEET, out of which 20,38,596 appeared in the examination and 11,45976 qualified. The state wise data is given below:

State/UT	Candidates Registered	Candidates Appeared	Candidates qualified
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	1046	1025	537
Andhra Pradesh	69690	68578	42836
Arunachal Pradesh	4811	4624	2296
Assam	39206	38153	19133
Bihar	121647	118533	64916
Chandigarh	3160	3098	2219
Chhattisgarh	42130	41196	19610
Dadar and Nagar Haveli	1062	1028	588
Daman and Diu	491	460	257
Delhi	55890	54701	39764
Goa	4370	4277	2204
Gujrat	79040	73180	49915
Haryana	45197	44217	29794
Himachal Pradesh	18830	18448	10962
J&K	37276	36431	20564
Jharkhand	29793	29135	17894
Karnataka	134381	131318	75248
Kerala	137396	133450	75362
Ladakh	774	740	422
Lakshadweep	361	349	167
MP	104265	102161	49324
Maharashtra	277903	273819	131008
Manipur	8777	7736	4556
Meghalaya	3428	3271	1603
Mizoram	2024	1951	913
Nagaland	3020	2945	1648
Odisha	57092	55866	28330
Punjab	18846	18430	12043
Puducherry	5797	5715	3140
Rajasthan	148364	145824	100316
Sikkim	1324	1292	632
Tamil Nadu	147583	144516	78693
Telangana	73883	72842	42654
Tripura	4839	4701	2334
UP	273572	267383	139961
Uttrakhand	19250	18788	10843
West Bengal	104923	102557	59053
Others	6021	5858	4237
Total	2087462	2038596	1145976

Previous year trends of NEET

Total number of aspirants in NEET of last 5 years are shown in the graph below.

neet in last 5 years

The cut-off marks and average marks out of 720 for the last 5 years is shown in the graph below.

From the above graph, it is clear that the competition is increasing day by day. Therefore, serious aspirants are advised not to waste any time and to start preparing at the moment. Those who are opting for coaching can visit the MENIIT office for inquiries. MENIIT has experienced faculties with small batch sizes, due to which every student gets individual attention.

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