NEET 2022: All you need to know before the medical entrance exam

Saikat Chakraborty

Posted on 22 Apr 2022

14:52 PM

NEET 2022 will be held on July 17, 2022.

Summary

NEET 2022 exam is scheduled to be held on July 17 and the application deadline is May 6

Knowing the exam pattern, marking scheme and syllabus is important if you’re going to appear in the medical entrance exam

With just over two months left until the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) in 2022, it’s time to gear up your preparations if you want to get into medical school. Once you clear this exam, you’re eligible for admission to various medical courses like MBBS, BDS, AYUSH (BAMS), and BVSc & AH (Bachelor of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry).

Important dates for application and registration:

Online submission of the application form: April 6 to May 6, 2022
Last date of fee submission: May 7, 2022

NEET 2022 exam date: July 17, 2022
Click here for NEET 2022 online registration.

Eligibility:

You need to be at least 17 years of age and have Physics, Chemistry, Biology/Biotechnology as mandatory subjects in Class XI-XII. You also need at least 50% aggregate in your Class XII board exams. There is no upper age limit.

Things you need to know:

Duration of the NEET exam: According to the most recent update, the exam will last 200 minutes and will be held from 2pm to 5:20pm for all students.

Mode of NEET question paper: It's a pen-and-paper examination conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA). You will be given an OMR sheet to fill out with a black or blue ballpoint pen

Language/Medium: You can opt for a question paper in any one of the following 13 languages: English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Odia, Punjabi, Malayalam, Kannada and Urdu.
Test booklet: You will be provided with a bilingual test booklet in a selected regional language as well as in English.

Exam pattern for NEET 2022:

There will be a total of 720 marks in the exam.
There will be 200 questions in total. You need to answer 180 of them, with 45 questions from Physics, Chemistry, Botany and Zoology.
The questions will be separated into two sections: Section A and Section B.
Each of the four subjects will have 35 questions in Section A and 15 questions in Section B.
You need to answer 10 out of the 15 questions in Section B.

Marking scheme:

Every correct attempt is worth four points each.
One mark will be deducted for every wrong attempt.
No marks for unanswered questions.

Syllabus:

You must answer multiple choice questions (MCQs) from Physics, Chemistry and Biology (Botany and Zoology) as per the NEET syllabus in the NEET 2022 exam.

Physics:

Physical-world and measurement
Electrostatics
Laws of motion
Magnetic effects of current and magnetism kinematics
Current electricity
Work, energy and power
Electromagnetic induction and alternating currents
The motion of systems of particles and rigid body
Electromagnetic waves
Thermodynamics
Atoms and nuclei
The behaviour of perfect gas and kinetic theory
Electronic
Devices gravitation
Optics properties of bulk matter
Dual nature of matter and radiation
Oscillations and wave

Chemistry:

Some basic concepts of Chemistry
Solid state
Classification of elements and periodicity in Properties — electrochemistry
Structure of atom
Solutions
Chemical bonding and molecular structure
Chemical kinetics
Thermodynamics
General principles and processes of isolation of elements equilibrium
P block elements
States of matter: Gases and liquids
Surface chemistry
Redox reactions
D and F block elements
Hydrogen
Coordination compounds
s-block elements (Alkali and alkaline earth metals)
Haloalkanes and haloarenes
Organic chemistry – some basic principles and techniques like aldehydes, ketones and carboxylic acids
Some p-block elements
Alcohols, phenols, and ethers
Hydrocarbons
Organic compounds containing nitrogen
Environmental chemistry
Biomolecules, polymers and chemistry in everyday life