New Delhi: One of the largest competitive undergraduate entrance examinations, the national eligibility test (Bachelor) or Near-UG is getting bigger, violating a 16-lakh registration sign for the first time.
The number of candidates who emerged in Indian also increased significantly in the last five years – up from 1.1 lakh in 2017 to 3.4 lakh in 2021.
The exam will be carried out by the National Testing Agency (NTA) on September 12, 2021.
Analyzing Registration data 2021 is accessed exclusively by TOI, the number of registration has shown significant growth in the last five years, up from 11.4 lakh in 2017 to 16.1 lakh in 2021.
The number of candidates who registered at almost one lakh.
Pre and post-pandemic period.
NEET-UG is a qualification entrance examination to enter Medical Bachelor and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS), Ayurveda Bachelor, Medicine and Surgery (BAMS), Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (BSM) Siddha (BSM), Bachelor Medical Unani and Surgery (BUMS), and Bachelor of Homeopathy and Surgery (BSC) and BSC (H) care courses from various medical colleges, which include major medical universities such as AIIMS and Jawaharlal Institute of Education and Postgraduate Medical Research (JIPMER), Puducherry.
Women have dominated the field of this study and in the last five years the number of female candidates has grown by 40.8%, with more than 9 Lakh candidates registering the latest edition of NEET-UG.
Exams are given in 13 languages, including 12 Indians.
While the number of candidates who take the exam in Hindi have more than doubled in the last five years – up from 1.2 lakh in 2017 to 2.3 lakhs by 2021, other languages have also witnessed a gradual increase in the number of candidates who prefer preferred appears in their first language.
Apart from Hindi, Gujarati has the highest number with nearly 50,000 candidates, followed by Bengali with more than 35,000 candidates and Tamil with nearly 20,000 candidates.
While the number of female candidates this year is close to two lats more than men and the majority of the countries have a female ratio to a higher man, there are six states that have lower number of female candidates: West Bengal, Tripura, Rajasthan, King, Bihar and Assam.
The country with the best female ratio for men is Kerala where for every man candidate there are 3.8 candidates for women, followed by Goa (2.8).
There are six countries that have more than two lakh candidates and consist of 53.4% of total candidates.
Record 16L + Candidate List for Neet-UG
