The cutoff scores have generally been around 130 to 140 for general category and around 105 to 120 for reserved categories, since the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET) was introduced as an exception in 2016 ( see graphic)
To put the numbers in perspective, a student who knows the answers to only 20 out of 180 questions can expect to score 120, while a student who is confident of only 13 out of 180 will score 93. can expect.
This is possible because of the marking scheme wherein four marks are awarded for every correct answer and one is deducted for any wrong answer. Students are asked 200 questions, 50 questions each Physics, Chemistry, Botany and Zoology, They will have to answer only 180 out of these 200 questions correctly to score 100 per cent i.e. 720 marks.
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Now consider someone who is sure of 20 answers and makes random choices in the remaining 160. 20 correct answers fetch him 80 marks. With each question having four options, if one answers the rest at random, there is a 25% chance of getting the correct answer. Thus, the probability is that such a candidate will get 40 out of those 160 questions correct, giving him 160 more marks. But 120 wrong answers would mean a deduction of 120, leaving the candidate with a total of 120 (80 plus 160 minus 120). A similar calculation shows that 13 questions are answered correctly and the rest are chosen at random, which will fetch approximately 94 marks.
Of course, these are averages, which means that some candidates may be more lucky with the estimates and some may score so low, but the calculations show how low such cutoffs are. Thus, even students with very low percentage of marks. are eligible to enter MBBS,
If you think that just getting qualified will not get admission to people with poor score, then year after year thousands of people who have scored about cutoff score got admission in MBBS while many people with very high score got lost. because they could not afford the astronomical fee. In private medical colleges, which has almost half of MBBS seats.
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Taking 50th percentile as the qualifying cut off means that about 50% of those who write the exam will qualify. Despite doctors making dire predictions about youth losing interest in joining the medical profession due to poor working conditions, the number of students seeking medical degrees is on the rise, with more numbers appearing for entrance exams each year. with. This year, out of a record 17.6 lakh students who took the entrance exam, 9.9 lakh have qualified. According to the website of the National Medical Commission, there are over 610 medical colleges with over 92,000 MBBS seats.