NEET Exam Pattern 2025: Marking Scheme, Subject Wise Weightage

NEET Exam Pattern 2025: National Testing Agency has designed the exam pattern for NEET UG examination. As per the pattern, the NEET exam will be conducted for a duration for 3 hours. The NEET UG exam pattern is released on the official website along with the exam information bulletin. 

As per the latest information shared by NTA on NEET exam pattern, the exam will now consist of 180 multiple choice objective-type questions from Physics, Chemistry, and Biology (further divided into Botany and Zoology) sections. The optional section B, which was added during the Covid years has now been discontinued. Candidates appearing in NEET UG 2025 exam will follow the pre-Covid pattern. 

NEET Exam Pattern 2025 Revised

The exam pattern for NEET UG 2025 exam has been reverted to the pre-covid pattern. This clarification has been issued by the National Testing Agency at the official exam website, neet.nta.nic.in. Check notice below: 

NEET Exam Pattern 2025: Highlights

NEET UG is conducted in a total of 13 different languages, giving candidates more opportunities in terms of opting for regional languages. Apart from checking the NEET exam pattern 2025, candidates should also check the NEET UG syllabus 2025 for a better preparation.

Candidates appearing for NEET UG 2025 can have a look at the key highlights about the NEET exam pattern below:

NEET Exam Pattern 2025: Subject-wise weightage

As per the NEET exam pattern, the question paper consists of three subjects - Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. Further, each section is divided into two different sections. The given below table will help the candidate to understand section-wise weightage and the breakup of the question paper.

The given below table shows the section of the NEET 2025 exam pattern shared by NTA. Detailed exam pattern and distribution of marks will be shared soon along with the official NEET UG exam notification. 

NEET UG Pattern 2025: Distribution of Marks 

NTA also releases the marking scheme for NEET UG exam every year. Check the marking scheme below:

• Candidates will get four marks for each correct answer 
• Since the exam has negative marking, one mark will be deducted for each incorrect answer
• No marks will be deducted if a candidate has left the question unanswered 
• If a candidate has marked two or more responses on the OMR sheet, then it will be considered as  incorrect and one mark will be deducted from them

NEET Exam Pattern 2025: Clarification of pattern

The NTA has provided the following instructions to clarify the NEET exam pattern:

• Section B or the optional section has been dicontinued from NEET UG 2025 exam pattern. The optional section was added during the COVID period, along with an extra duration of 20 minutes. NTA has now released a notice regarding the discontinuation of the optional section. 
• NEET UG 2025 exam pattern will now be reverted to the pre-COVID rules. Hence, there will be a total of 180 questions (instead of 200) in the question paper. Physics and Chemistry sections will have 45 questions each, while Biology (further divided into Zoology and Botany) will consist of 90 questions. 
• The duration of NEET UG exam has been reduced to 180 minutes from 200 minutes i.e., 3 hours from 3 hours and 20 minutes.

NEET UG Pattern 2025: Guidelines to fill OMR sheet

NTA has issued a list of guidelines for candidates taking the NEET UG examination. Check these instructions to follow while filling the OMR sheet in NEET UG examination:

• Candidates have to mark the answer using a ballpoint pen which will be given to students in the examination hall. 
• Candidates are not allowed to make any changes to the OMR Sheet 
• OMR sheets cannot be erased or obliterated
• Candidates have to do the rough work on the booklet only 
• Candidates should always remember their test booklet code on the OMR sheet.