NEET UG 2024 Candidates This time, the National Testing Agency (NTA) recorded an all time high in the number of total registrations for postgraduate medical entrance exam.
<strong>NEET UG 2024 Total Candidates<strong> The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test UG NEET UG this year registered 23 lakh applications for the exam scheduled to take place on May 5<br>This time the National Testing Agency NTA recorded an all time high in the overall registrations for graduate medical entrance examination<br><br><br>This time a total of 2381833 students have registered for NEET UG 2024 of which over 10 lakh are male students over 13 lakh are girls and 24 students have registered under the third gender category Out of the registered 23 lakh students over 10 lakh students are OBC NCL as per list 6 lakh are general students 35 lakh are Scheduled Caste SC students 18 lakh students are from Gen EWS category and 15 lakh are from the Scheduled Tribe ST categoryNEET UG 2024 is scheduled to be conducted on May 5 and the NTA has clarified that no change will be made to the exam date even after the election schedule was announced last week<br><br>State wise registrations<br><img loading=lazy decoding=async width=534 height=325 srcset=httpsindianexpresscomwp contentuploads202403NEET UG 2024 registrationsjpg 534w httpsindianexpresscomwp contentuploads202403NEET UG 2024 registrationsjpgresize=450274 450w src=httpsimagesindianexpresscom202403NEET UG 2024 registrationsjpg alt=NEET UG 2024 25 NEET UG 2024 registrations state wise><br> NTA NEET UG 2024 Candidates State wise NEET UG 2024 registrations<br><br>Region wise Uttar Pradesh has registered the highest number of candidates with 339125 registrations followed by Maharashtra with 279904 Rajasthan at 196139 Southern states Tamil Nadu registered 155216 applicants while Karnataka is at 154210<br><br>Interestingly even in the number of qualified candidates last year Uttar Pradesh had the largest number of qualified candidates with 14 lakh candidates followed by Maharashtra 13 lakh and Rajasthan 1 lakh<br><br>Comparison from previous years<br>Last year a total of 2087449 candidates registered for NEET UG 2023 and the exam was held on May 7 out of which NTA recorded 977 per cent attendance and the re exam was conducted for nearly 8700 candidates The exam was conducted at 4097 centres across 499 cities in India and abroad
NEET UG
2024
2023
2022
Registered
2381833
20,87,449
18,72,343
Appeared
NA
20,36,316
17,64,571
Qualified
NA
11,45,976
9,93,069
The number of NEET UG registrations has been soaring for the past few years. The number has gone up from 18 lakh registrations in 2022 to 20.87 lakh in 2023 and then jumped by nearly three lakh this year.
A similar trend has been spotted in the number of students appearing and qualifying for the exam, The number of students who appeared for the exam increased from 17 lakh in 2022 to 20.36 lakh in 2023 and is expected to grow this year. The number of qualified students also increased from 9.93 lakh in 2022 to 11.45 lakh in 2023.
