The National Testing Agency (NTA) Wednesday declared the results for NEET-UG 2022 exam, which has been cleared by 9.93 lakh candidates. Overall, the pass percentage stood at 56.28, nearly the same as last year.
Cut-offs dipped across categories – in case of general candidates from 138 in 2021 to 117 this year and from 108 to 93 in case SC, ST and OBC candidates.
Tanishka from Rajasthan with 99.9997733 percentile. Vatsa Ashish Batra from Delhi holds All-India Rank 2 and Hrishikesh Nagbhushan Gangule from Karnataka is at the third position.
There are 16 female candidates in the list of top 50, including the all India topper – Tanishka from Rajasthan. She scored 715 marks. In total, 5.63 lakh candidates cleared the exam.
Among the top 50 candidates, nine belong to Karnataka, followed by Gujarat and Delhi with five each; Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal threw up four toppers each; Rajasthan and Maharashtra three each; Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu Haryana two each; Punjab, Jammu, Goa, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Kerala one each.
Category-wise break-ups of the qualifying candidates show that 13.3 per cent are SCs, 45.08 per cent OBCs and 4.7 per cent STs, as against last year’s 13.1 per cent, 4.6 per cent and 45.6 per cent respectively.