NEET PG 2026 Result Declared: Cutoff 262/720 & Scorecard

NEET PG 2026 results are out. NBEMS declared them on 24 September 2026, live now on natboard.edu.in, showing every candidate's raw score and All India Rank. Here's the complete picture: the confirmed cutoffs, what your scorecard will actually show, and exactly what happens between now and counselling.

Result at a Glance

NEET PG 2026 was held on 30 August 2026, with a re-examination on 5 September 2026 for candidates at the iON Digital Zone (iDZ) Sitapura centre in Jaipur, affected by a technical glitch on the original exam day. Across both sittings, 2,63,544 candidates appeared on 30 August and 2,416 on the re-exam date, bringing total appearance to roughly 2,65,960 candidates.

The exam ran on a new pattern this cycle: 180 questions worth 720 total marks, with +4 for each correct answer and -1 for each incorrect one — a genuine change from the previous 200-question, 800-mark format, and one of several reasons this year's results need to be read on their own terms rather than compared directly to past cycles.

Category-Wise Qualifying Cutoffs

NBEMS has released three qualifying cutoffs for NEET PG 2026, all out of 720 marks.

Category	Qualifying Percentile	Cutoff (out of 720)
General / EWS	50th	262
General - PwBD	45th	244
SC / ST / OBC (incl. PwBD)	40th	226

What Qualifying Percentile Actually Means

It's worth being precise about what these cutoffs represent, since it's a genuinely common point of confusion right at results time. A qualifying cutoff determines eligibility for counselling — it does not determine admission to any specific seat. Scoring above your category's cutoff makes you eligible to be ranked and considered in the counselling process; it doesn't reserve a seat for you at any particular college or in any particular specialty. Two candidates can both clear the cutoff comfortably and still end up with very different counselling outcomes, purely based on their relative rank and the seats actually available when their turn comes up in the process.

This distinction matters most for candidates sitting close to their category's cutoff line: clearing it is real, necessary progress, but it's the start of the counselling conversation, not the end of it.

How to Check and Download Your Scorecard

Your raw score and rank are viewable now through the result link on natboard.edu.in. The full downloadable scorecard, with percentile detail and formal All India Rank documentation, opens from 1 October 2026. To access either:

• Visit the official NBEMS website at natboard.edu.in — this is the only official source; avoid third-party sites claiming to host your personal scorecard.
• Locate and click the NEET PG 2026 result or scorecard link on the homepage.
• Log in using your application ID and password — the same credentials from your original registration.
• Your raw score and rank will display on screen. Once available from 1 October, download the full scorecard PDF for your records.

Save the scorecard file itself, not just a screenshot of the page — you'll need this document at multiple points during counselling and college admission verification, and it remains downloadable for six months from its release date.

What the Scorecard Shows, and the New Answer-Key Transparency

Your scorecard shows your raw score out of 720 and your All India Rank. Alongside the result, NBEMS is also releasing a question-wise answer key and individual response sheet — a genuinely new step for NEET PG, following a Supreme Court direction requiring this level of transparency. For each of the 180 questions, this documentation shows the question ID, your recorded response, the official correct answer, and the marks allotted for that specific question.

This is meaningfully more detail than NEET PG candidates have had in past cycles, where a final score and rank were typically all that was released, with no question-by-question breakdown to verify against. If you want to understand exactly how your score was calculated rather than simply seeing the final number, this documentation is what makes that possible.

What Comes Next: Counselling

For candidates who've cleared their category's cutoff, the next step is counselling, conducted separately for two categories of seats. The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) handles the 50% All India Quota (AIQ) seats across the country, alongside seats at central institutions. The remaining 50% of seats are handled through individual state counselling authorities, following each state's own seat matrix and reservation rules.

Registration for counselling opens once MCC and the respective state authorities release their schedules — typically requiring a fresh registration and choice-filling process distinct from your original NEET PG exam registration. Your rank, not your raw score directly, is what determines seat allotment during this process: two candidates with the same raw score are ranked according to NBEMS's tie-breaking criteria (fewer incorrect answers, then section-wise performance, then aggregate MBBS marks, then age) rather than treated as tied indefinitely.

Why 2026 Is Different: Don't Compare to Old Cutoffs

This is worth stating plainly, since it's an easy mistake to make right at results time: NEET PG 2026's cutoffs are not directly comparable to cutoffs from 2025 or earlier cycles, because the exam itself changed. Previous cycles used a 200-question, 800-mark format; 2026 uses 180 questions and 720 marks. A cutoff of 262 out of 720 is not equivalent to any specific score from the old 800-mark scale, and attempting to convert between the two by simple proportion doesn't reliably capture how difficulty, question selection, and candidate performance actually differed between the two formats.

If you're trying to gauge how this year's results compare to previous years, percentile is the more meaningful comparison than raw score — the qualifying percentile thresholds themselves (50th, 45th, 40th) have stayed consistent even as the underlying mark scale changed.

What to Do in the Days Right After Results

With the full scorecard and answer key still ten days out from today's result declaration, the practical priority right now is confirming your qualifying status against your category's cutoff using the raw score already visible on natboard.edu.in, rather than waiting for the formal scorecard to take any action. If your score clears your category's cutoff, start familiarizing yourself with the counselling process structure — AIQ versus state quota, the general sequence of registration, choice-filling, and seat allotment rounds — even before the MCC schedule is formally announced, since this preparation time is genuinely useful and doesn't need to wait for any further release.

If your score falls short of your category's cutoff, it's worth knowing this isn't necessarily the end of this attempt cycle — NEET PG has no cap on the number of attempts and no upper age limit, meaning a future cycle remains available without needing special justification. That said, this is a decision worth making deliberately rather than by default, weighing your specific score, your target specialty, and your overall timeline.

Reading your own result in context means checking three things in order: your raw score against your category's specific cutoff (not a generic 50th-percentile figure that may not apply to your category), your percentile relative to this year's cutoffs specifically rather than any prior year's figures, and the actual counselling timeline once MCC and state authorities publish it, rather than estimating your prospects from rank alone before seat matrices for this specific cycle are available.

The two-step release NBEMS has adopted this cycle — raw score and rank immediately, formal scorecard and question-level answer key ten days later — means today's result is genuinely actionable on its own even though the complete documentation is still to come. Checking your qualifying status and beginning to understand the counselling structure ahead of you does not need to wait for October 1st.

Bookmark natboard.edu.in for the scorecard release and check MCC and your state counselling authority's websites over the coming days — both the formal scorecard window and the counselling registration window are worth tracking actively rather than waiting for a single announcement to cover everything at once, since the counselling timeline this cycle is likely to move quickly once it formally opens.

For a deeper look at how marks translate to rank this cycle, see our NEET PG marks vs rank guide, and for the full subject-wise breakdown of this year's paper, our subject-wise weightage guide.