{"id":23506,"date":"2026-06-19T05:46:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/34-of-candidates-for-neet-ug-retest-from-just-3-states-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T05:46:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:16:46","slug":"34-of-candidates-for-neet-ug-retest-from-just-3-states-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/34-of-candidates-for-neet-ug-retest-from-just-3-states-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"34% of candidates for NEET-UG retest from just 3 states | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-131842151,imgsize-54132.cms\" \/><\/p>\n<div>NEW DELHI: One in every three candidates registered for the June 21 NEET-UG re-exam come from just three states \u2014 Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan \u2014 according to data from <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/national-testing-agency\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">National Testing Agency<\/a> (NTA).<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>NEET-UG \u2014 involving more than 22.7 lakh medical aspirants \u2014 is the single-largest national entrance test of the country. It is the gateway to nearly all UG medical seats, with students competing every year for limited places. The retest was necessitated due to the cancellation of the May 3 exam due to the question paper being leaked.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>UP alone accounts for 3,56,291 candidates, or 15.7% of the total \u2014 the largest share of any state or UT. <!-- -->Maharashtra follows with 2,22,905 (9.8%) and Rajasthan with 2,03,470 candidates (8.9%). Together, the three states make up 34.4% of all registrations.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>Bihar (1,56,061), Karnataka (1,45,466) and Tamil Nadu (1,42,489) round off the top six. These six states account for nearly 54% of the entire candidate pool, underlining how heavily registrations are centered on a few large states.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>The next tier includes Madhya Pradesh (1,18,162), Kerala (1,13,609) and West Bengal (1,09,527), each contributing around 5%. Gujarat (79,411), Telangana (73,058), Andhra Pradesh (65,790), Haryana (65,706) and Delhi (58,643) follow, with Odisha and Jammu &amp; Kashmir close behind at over 56,000 each.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>The eight Hindi-belt states \u2014 UP, Rajasthan, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Delhi \u2014 together make up about 44% of all candidates. The five southern states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh contribute 23.8%.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/>At the other end, the smallest numbers come from Lakshadweep (141), Daman &amp; Diu (666) and Andaman &amp; Nicobar Islands (882). Among northeastern states, Manipur leads with 9,475 candidates, followed by Arunachal Pradesh (4,921), Tripura (4,684), Meghalaya (4,164) and Nagaland (4,128). The figures cover all states and UTs.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/34-of-candidates-for-neet-ug-retest-from-just-3-states\/articleshow\/131843964.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: One in every three candidates registered for the June 21 NEET-UG re-exam come from just three states \u2014 Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan \u2014 according to data from National Testing Agency (NTA).NEET-UG \u2014 involving more than 22.7 lakh medical aspirants \u2014 is the single-largest national entrance test of the country. It is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-country"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}