NEET 2018 Result Declared; 39.55% Pass In Tamil Nadu Recommended: Join NEET Crash Course to Improve Your Preparation Level & Strengthen Most Asked Concepts in NEET Start Now By submitting details, you are registering on Careers360 45336 (39.55%) candidates have cleared the prestigious NEET exam in Tamil Nadu, this year. A total of 120000 students had registered for the exam and 114602 candidates had appeared for it. Keerthana K is the state topper and All India third topper within female candidates. She has secured a total of 676 out of 720. AIR 12 ranker Keerthana has a percentile score of 99.998976. The presence of female candidates in the topper's list is sparsely visible. While the top 20 rank has three female candidates; 11 girls are in the merit list thereafter till AIR 50.Overall, 56.26% students have cleared NEET 2018. Nagaland has recorded the lowest pass percentage in NEET, this year; 29.3% students have cleared the exam.Maharashtra has the same pass percentage as Tamil Nadu, 39.55%.Bihar girl Kalpana Kumari is the NEET 2018 topper . Rohan Purohit from Telangana and Himanshu Sharma from Delhi have secured the second and third position, respectively.Tamil Nadu's appeal against NEET has been in the headlines since 2 years.According to a counter-affidavit filed by Secretary of Department of Health and Family Welfare in Madras High Court last year 1,422 agitations had been reported in the state against NEET out of which 933 were staged by political parties in the state and 317 were by students.Last year, the anti-NEET protests in Tamil Nadu reached a news lever when a Dalit medical aspirant and anti-NEET court petitioner committed suicide , with students hitting the streets against the central and state governments. Anitha, a 17-year-old Dalit girl who had moved the Supreme Court against National Entrance-cum-Eligibility Test (NEET)-based medical examinations allegedly committed suicide in September last year. Anitha was the daughter of a poor, Dalit daily-wage labourer, whose dream was to be a doctor. Anitha, a state board student had scored 98 per cent marks (an impressive 1,176 out of 1,200 marks) in class 12 board examinations. But , in NEET, she did not fair well and missed out on getting a medical seat.Last year the State government had decided to give 85% reservation benefit the students who have completed their class 12 from the state board under Department of School Education, Tamilnadu. However Madras High Court dismissed the appeal.This year, close to 3,500 NEET candidates from Tamil Nadu had to travel to Kerala to write the exam this year, which also caused protests from various groups in the state.In another development, this year, activists protested outside the CBSE's office in Chennai on May, one day after the exam, demanding that the NEET in Tamil Nadu be scrapped. The immediate trigger was the death of three parents who were escorting their children to NEET centres. CBSE declared NEET 2018 result today. The pass percentage of boys and girls in the NEET exam is almost equal (approximately 56%). Online counselling process will begin soon. The counselling to 15% All India Quota Seats, Deemed Universities, Central Universities, Seats of ESIC and AFMC, BHU, and AMU will be conducted by Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Government of India.Click here for more Education News<doc-sep>The NEET CBSE 2018 results can be accessed on cbseneet.nic.in and cbseresults.nic.in. The results of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to medical programmes in private and government medical colleges, except the AIIMS and JIPMER, Puducherry, were declared by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Monday. The cut-off percentile – a method of knowing what percentage a candidate has done better than -- for the general category is 50. For the OBC, SC and ST candidates, it is 40. As for the cut-off scores, for the general category it is 691-119, and for the OBCs, SCs and STs, it is 118-96. A total of 6,34,897 general category candidates are above the cut-off percentile. The numbers for the OBCs, SCs and STs are 54,653; 17,209 and 7446 respectively. Kalpana Kumari is the all-India topper, with a score of 691 out of 720. She has scored 171 out of 180 in physics, 160 out of 180 in chemistry and 360 out of 360 in biology (botany and zoology). The over 13 lakh candidates can check their results at cbseresults.nic.in and cbseneet.nic.in. They can also check their scores at www.mcc.nic.in and www.mohfw.nic.in.<doc-sep>
CBSE NEET Result 2018 LIVE Updates: The result of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2018 has been released today, on June 4, by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). Candidates can now check their respective scores at the official website — cbseneet.nic.in. Kalpana Kumari has obtained the All India Rank 1 in NEET UG 2018 with 99.99 percentile. She has obtained 171 out of 180 in physics, 160 out of 180 in Chemistry, 360 out of 360 in Biology (Biology and Zoology). Overall her score is 691 out of 720. The exam was conducted on May 6 this year and over 13 lakh candidates had appeared for the same. Earlier, the CBSE had released the answer keys on May 25 and the candidates were given a chance to raise objections on the answer keys till May 27. According to students, the Physics paper was lengthier than last year with an increase in the application based and calculative questions. Photos | NEET Result 2018: Rank list, toppers, cut-off and websites to check Important dates The first round of counselling: June 12 to 24 Last date of joining: July 3 The second round of counselling: July 6 to 12 Last date of joining: July 22 Mop-up round of counselling: August 12 to 22 Last date of joining: August 26 Transfer of vacant seats to Deemed & Central universities for the final mop-up round: August 27 Last date of joining: August 31 An all India merit list of the qualified candidates will also be prepared on the basis of the marks obtained in the exam. CBSE will provide the rank. NEET UG is conducted for admission to MBBS/BDS courses in India in medical/dental colleges run with the approval of the Medical Council of India/Dental Council of India. The exam was conducted in Hindi, English, Urdu, Gujarati, Marathi, Oriya, Bengali, Assamese, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada.