The NEET exam result 2020 will be announced today, on October 16 on the official websites nta.ac.in or ntaneet.nic.in. The National Testing Agency (NTA), which is the conducting body of NEET 2020, has not informed the exact NEET result time, but it can be expected sometime in the afternoon. Scroll down to know the details of how to calculate NEET percentile, NEET marks and NEET rank.
On October 12, Supreme Court allowed those who had missed NEET due to Covid-19 concerns to appear for a second phase of NEET 2020 on October 14. The apex court said that the result of both the phases of NEET exam the first one held on September 13, and the second one on October 14 would be declared together on October 16.
NTA will also released the final answer key for NEET 2020 before releasing the NEET exam result 2020.
The NEET 2020 rank list will be released by NTA based on the marks along with the NEET exam result. General category candidates need to get a minimum 50th percentile marks to qualify while reserved categories need at least 40th percentile marks to qualify.
How to calculate NEET marks or NEET score
Candidates can calculate their NEET marks or NEET score with the help of the NEET answer key.
Tally your own answers with that in the NEET answer key to see which questions you answered correctly.
Note that each correct answer will get 4 marks, while every wrong answer will deduct 1 mark. Unattempted questions and those having multiple answers marked will get no marks.
Total NEET Marks = 180 MCQs X 4 = 720 Marks
Your NEET score = (Total number of correct answers x 4) (Total number of incorrect answers x 1)
How to calculate NEET rank
NEET rank is calculated and announced in the rank list by NTA. You can calculate an estimate of your rank by seeing the previous year’s NEET scores vs NEET ranks but calculating an exact rank before the NEET exam result is out is not possible.
To prepare the NEET rank list, NTA takes into account the raw NEET scores of all candidates and then uses a few tie-breaker methods to rank those candidates who received the same NEET score or NEET marks.
As per NEET 2019, here are the tiebreakers used in the following order:
- Higher marks in biology (botony and zoology section combined) will be given a higher NEET rank
- Higher marks in Chemistry will be given a higher NEET rank
- Number of wrong answers candidates who have lesser number of wrong answers would be awarded the higher rank.
- Age candidates with higher age would be preferred over the younger ones and awarded higher rank.
How to calculate NEET percentile
There are two ways to calculate NEET percentile based on marks and based on rank.
1. How to calculate NEET percentile based on marks
You can calculate your NEET percentile easily with your own NEET score and the score of the NEET topper in that particular year.
NEET Percentile = Your NEET score * 100 / NEET score of the topper
2. How to calculate NEET percentile based on rank
You can calculate your NEET percentile with your own NEET rank and the number of candidates appearing for NEET that particular year.
NEET Percentile = [(Total no. of candidates appearing NEET Rank) /Total no. of candidates appearing] x 100
This method is trickier than the last one.
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