NEET PG exam pattern and subject-wise weightage
200 questions in 210 minutes, marked +4 and -1, across every subject on the syllabus.
This is the shape of the NEET PG (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test - Postgraduate) paper, and the split our own papers are dealt to when you sit a mock of previous year questions here.
The paper
- Questions
- 200
- Time
- 210 minutes
- Per question
- 63 seconds
- Marking
- +4 and -1
The marking
A right answer is worth 4, a wrong one -1, and a question left blank is worth nothing either way. Answering all 200 correctly is 800 marks, which is why a guess is not free: four wrong ones undo a right one.
Subject-wise weightage
What each subject has historically been worth, per 300 questions. The paper itself is 200 questions, so the share column is the part to carry across: a subject worth 11.0% of the scheme is about 11.0% of any paper. Open a subject to practise it on its own.
| Subject | Per 300 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine | 33 | 11.0% |
| Obstetrics & Gynaecology | 30 | 10.0% |
| Community Medicine | 25 | 8.3% |
| Surgery | 25 | 8.3% |
| Pathology | 25 | 8.3% |
| Microbiology | 20 | 6.7% |
| Pharmacology | 20 | 6.7% |
| Physiology | 17 | 5.7% |
| Anatomy | 17 | 5.7% |
| Biochemistry | 16 | 5.3% |
| Forensic Medicine | 10 | 3.3% |
| Paediatrics | 10 | 3.3% |
| ENT | 10 | 3.3% |
| Ophthalmology | 10 | 3.3% |
| Orthopaedics | 8 | 2.7% |
| Psychiatry | 6 | 2.0% |
| Anaesthesia | 6 | 2.0% |
| Dermatology | 6 | 2.0% |
| Radiology | 6 | 2.0% |
| All subjects | 300 | 100.0% |
Sitting the pattern
Reading the pattern is not the same as surviving it. Sit a free full-length mock at exactly this length, clock and marking, or practise one subject at a time from the table above.