Two students from Gujarat get a perfect NEET score

17-year-old Darsh Paghdar from Rajkot is the other student from the state who has achieved the perfect score feat.  His elder sister too is a medical student in her final year at GMERS Medical College Gandhinagar. “As my father Dr Malay Paghdar is also a BHMS doctor and the elder sister is pursuing MBBS, the motivation came from within the family only. My mother too is in this field being a lab technician but she gave up her career for our studies,” he says. He is also eyeing an admission in AIIMS Delhi.

Ved shares his routine for preparation. “Other than the regular classes, I devoted 4-5 hours to self-study, and practiced the same day. Otherwise it adds to a backlog, which keeps piling up and hampers the preparation,” he shares.

Three other students from Ahmedabad are among the top 300 — Mandar Soni with all India rank (AIR) of 181 secured, Man Khodabhai Patel (257 AIR) and Tasmeen H Daudi secured (260 AIR).

This year, more than 24 lakh NEET UG applications were received, in a new high.  The National Testing Agency conducted the test at 4,750 different centers in 571 cities throughout the country, and 14 cities outside India.

The total number of medical aspirants who qualified the entrance test is 13,16,268. As per the data shared by the NTA, of the total qualified students, as many as 5,47,036 are male students, 7,69,222 are female students and 10 are transgender students. NEET UG 2024 registrations saw an increase of 16.85 per cent this year. Last year, as many as 20.59 lakh students had applied.