AYUSH Ministry notifies on marks required for eligibility in NEET 2020 as per revised qualifying criteria

New Delhi: Through a recent notice, the AYUSH ministry has released the details of marks required for eligibility in NEET 2020 as per revised qualifying criteria for Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani & Homoeopathy courses for this academic session 2020-21.

The marks required for qualifying NEET-2020 as per the revised percentile criteria has been received from National Testing Agency (NTA) and the marks range and the number of candidates qualified in each category (General/ EWS/SC/ST/ OBC and PwD of General/EWS SC/ST/ OBC) as per the Qualifying Criteria (Earlier and Revised) are as follows:

This aforesaid information released by the under Secretary GOI has been given to all the state authorities for necessary action and a copy has been then forwarded to Registrar of all Universities having affiliated AYUSH Colleges, for information and necessary action at their level, Secretary (CCIM/CCH), All National Institutes under the Ministry of AYUSH.

This clarification is applicable only for the academic year 2020-21.

Ministry of AYUSH had reduced the NEET 2020 cutoff percentile for admission to BAMS, BSMS, BUMS, and BHMS courses for this academic year.

As per the official notice recently released by the ministry informing about the effect, the reduced NEET cutoff for admission to AYUSH courses can be used for central and state-wise admissions. The decision to reduce the percentile was taken in view of the several requests received from the UG AYUSH candidates. NEET 2020 cut off for general category candidates has been reduced to 40th percentile. While for SC/ST/OBC and PH students, it is now 30th and 35th percentile, respectively.

To view the official notice click on the following link:

https://medicaldialogues.in/pdf_upload/show-1-146379.pdf