Bokaro: As many as 24 students of Sree Ayyappa Public School cracked the National Eligibilty cum Entrance Test (NEET) UG-2022. The result declared by National Testing Agency (NTA) on Wednesday brought happiness to students who cracked the exam with good percentile for admissions in reputed MBBS and BDS colleges in the country.
According to information provided by Ayyappa Public School, nine of their students scored more than 90 percentile in NEET UG-2022. Of those who qualified the exam, five students scored more than 95 percentile with more than 500 marks in this prestigious All India level examination.
The highest scorers of the schools are- Sarbashish Roshan with 97.9429 percentile (571 marks). He is followed by Vishnu M Nair with 97.6055 percentile (561 marks). Md Waris scored 97.6 percentile (560 marks), Udipta Katayanan with 96.2933 percentile (552 marks), Bhavya Kumari with 95.5308 percentile (507 marks), Jyotsana Kumari with 93.9845 percentile (473 marks), Sweta Kumari with 435 marks, Anushka Soni with 90.6251 percentile (412 marks) and Nandini Raj scored 388 marks. Druhin Halder-372 marks. Devansh Tiwary-360 marks.
“Since the cut off marks is 117 this yr in comparison to last year’s cut off of 138 , we are expecting some more good results from our school,” said S S Mahapatra, director of Ayyappa Public School.
The NEET 2022 cut-off marks for students under all the categories have decreased this year. The NEET cut-off 2022 for unreserved category students has gone down from 720-138 in NEET 2021 to 715-117 in NEET UG 2022.
The NEET for medical aspirants of reserved categories including Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other Backward Classes (OBC) have also dropped from 137-108 last year to 116-93 in NTA NEET UG 2022.
For the differently-abled among the OBC, SC and ST candidates, the NEET cut-off 2022 has dropped to 104-93 from 121-108 in NEET result 2021. The NEET MBBS/ BDS cut-off 2021 for General category candidates is 50th, while for OBC, SC and ST, it is 40th.
Tanishka from Rajasthan is the topper. This year, a total of 18.72 lakh candidates registered for the entrance test. The NEET UG exam was conducted on July 17 with over 95 per cent of the registered candidates appearing in the exam. NEET UG was held across 3,570 centres in 497 cities in India and in 14 cities in foreign nations.
Out of the total 18,72,343 students who registered for the exam, 17,64,571 appeared for it and 9,93,069 qualified the exam.
The maximum number of candidates opted for English as their language of instruction (14,76,024) followed by Hindi (2,58,827). Gujarati was the third most preferred language (49,638) and the most preferred regional language.