Details on NEET tie breaking policy after NTA removes age criteria

This year, the National Testing Agency (NTA) eliminated the provision of providing priority to elder candidates from the tie-breaking policy or regulation for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) and the National Eligibility Cumulative Entrance Test (NEET).

This new regulation will have a significant impact on the national Engineering and Medical entrance tests, which will be held in 2021 across the country. Due to the large number of candidates that take these well-known entrance exams each year, it is conceivable for applicants to have the same or similar results.

Previously, the NTA used the normal tie-breaking procedure to assign applicants rankings, but the age requirements are not included in the official information brochures for both JEE 2021 and NEET 2021 this year. The information brochures may be found by clicking on the links below.

Details on NEET 2021 tie-breaking policy:

If two or more applicants obtaining equal marks or percentile scores in the NEET (UG) 2021, the agency will evaluate them on the basis of their grades in Biology, Chemistry and finally with a smaller number of attempted incorrect and correct answers in all the subjects. Moreover, the tie-breaking criteria for NEET 2021 do not mention the age factor, as per the information brochure that was released this year.