NTA NEET UG OMR Answer Sheet 2026

About Neet (UG):

The NEET (UG) is being conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) since 2019 with the approval of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Ministry of Human Resource Development (which is now known as the Ministry of Education), in pursuance of the direction of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India vide Judgement dated 22.11. 2018 in C.A. No. 11230 of 2018 in the matter of CBSE Vs. T.K. Rangarajan & Ors. (Para 22).

ii. The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET-UG) is being conducted by NTA since 2019 for admission to the undergraduate medical education, with the approval of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (vide O.M. no. V.11025/14/216-MEP dated 6th December 2017) and MHRD (vide Order No 35-5/2017-TS.I dated 24th September 2018).

iii. As per Section 14 of the National Medical Commission Act, 2019, the NEET (UG) has to be conducted as a common and uniform National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test [(NEET (UG)] for admission to undergraduate medical education in all medical institutions. Similarly, as per Section 14 of the National Commission for Indian System of Medicine Act, 2020, there shall be a uniform NEET (UG) for admission to undergraduate courses in each of the disciplines i.e. BAMS, BUMS, and BSMS courses of the Indian System of Medicine in all Medical Institutions governed under this Act. As per Section 14 of the National Commission for Homeopathy Act, 2020, there shall be a uniform NEET (UG) for admission to undergraduate course, i.e. BHMS course of National Commission for Homoeopathy governed under this Act. Similar provisions for admission to the BDS course are contained under the Dentists Act, 1948 and Regulations made thereunder.

iv. The Constitutional validity of this Act has been upheld by the Hon’ble Apex Court vide its Judgement dated 29 April 2020 in the matter of Christian Medical College Vellore Association vs. UOI & Ors., while disposing of the transferred Case (Civil) No. 98 of 2021 & connected Transferred Cases, Writ Petitions & SLP.

v. NEET (UG) has been a qualifying entrance exam since 2020 for admission to the MBBS courses in AIIMS and JIPMER (although such Medical Institutions are governed under separate Statutes), as per the provisions under Section 14 (1) of the NMC Act (2019).

vi. A uniform entrance examination shall be conducted for all medical educational institutions at the undergraduate level, as provided under Section 10-D of the Medical Council Act, 1956 (as amended from time to time). This requirement has been reiterated under the National Medical Commission Act, 2019, Chapter IV (Examinations), Clause 14(1), which mandates that there shall be a uniform National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to undergraduate courses in all medical institutions.