The Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate) (NEET-UG 2025) 2025 results were announced on Saturday and not a single candidate scored a perfect 720 marks this year, a massive drop from last year when 17 students secured maximum possible marks.

The highest marks were scored by Rajasthan’s Mahesh Kumar. He secured 686 marks, indicating a tougher question paper and more stringent evaluation.

A few months before the exam, pressure increases automatically, and given last year’s NEET-UG entrance, a little bit of tension was normal. Then when we got the question paper, it was a different format…so keeping calm and solving it under pressure was a challenge. After the paper, I knew I wouldn’t get a score of 700 like I used to in practice papers, but later when I analysed the answers, I realised that I would get a decent rank, never thought that it would be AIR 1,” Mahesh Kumar told TOI.