NEET UG 2025 held with heavy restrictions across 5,453 centres in India
More than two million students appeared for the NEET-UG 2025 on Sunday for admission to undergraduate medical education in colleges across the country.
The National Testing Agency (NTA) conducted the exam across 5,453 examination centres in 548 cities in India and at 14 international locations.
Held in a single shift from 2pm to 5pm, the pen-and-paper exam required 20.8 million candidates to attempt 180 compulsory questions from physics, chemistry, and biology.
NTA had put in place strict monitoring and checks at the test centres following last year’s cancellation of the University Grants Commission-National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) over integrity concerns. Two other exams—CSIR-UGC NET and NEET-PG — were also scrapped pre-emptively.
NTA officials said that conduct of the exam involved coordination between district administrations, state authorities, and multiple central ministries.
The NTA adopted a “whole-of-government” approach, integrating real-time monitoring through a Centralised Control Room established under the ministry of education, they said.
“The integrated system allowed seamless coordination between agencies to address any on-ground challenges swiftly,” an NTA official said.