02-05-2025
NEET UG 2025: Last-minute tips from toppers that can make all the difference
With just a couple of days left for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate), the spoke to a few mentors and also toppers of last year to find out how candidates can utilise the final hours before the highly competitive medical entrance examination:
Mazin Mansoor (Darbhanga, Bihar)
Student, AIIMS Delhi
Mazin Mansoor achieved a perfect score of 720/720 in NEET UG 2024. The then 18-year-old aced the exam in his first attempt. He hails from a family of doctors. Mazin Mansoor's father is a paediatrician and is currently posted at a government hospital in Saudi Arabia. Several other family members, including his maternal uncle and aunts, as well as both his paternal and maternal grandfathers, are also doctors. Inspired by his family's legacy in medicine, Mazin Mansoor was determined to pursue MBBS and prepared for the NEET UG exam.
He told that while attempting mock tests, he first solved biology questions, then chemistry, and, finally, physics. 'However, I later realised that this approach was not fruitful and I changed my approach. I started attempting the chemistry question paper first, biology next, and physics at the end,' said Mansoor.
Tathagat Awatar (Madhubani district, Bihar)
Student, AIIMS Delhi
Tathagat Awatar scored 715 and notched up an impressive 99.9946856 percentile in his third attempt in last year's NEET UG. In his first attempt in 2022, Awatar had scored 526. 'Although I scored above the cut-off in my second attempt (in 2023), I thought I could do better, and, therefore, I dropped out another year,' he said.
'When I sat to take the actual NEET UG exam in 2023, my strategy for section-wise tests had failed as I was unable to solve questions on time. Therefore, in my third attempt, I changed my approach. I solved over 100 full mock tests. I answered the biology paper first, followed by physics and chemistry,' said Awatar.
Amina Kadiwal (Mumbai, Maharashtra)
After two unsuccessful attempts, Amina Kadiwal cracked NEET UG in her third attempt last year by scoring 715. She shared that in the last few days before the exam, she read the notes she had made and the NCERT books. 'As I prepared during lockdown, my school and its papers never disturbed my preparation. In fact, I was better able to manage,' she said, adding that she used to revise chapters daily. 'I did my paper in two rounds, and after I was sure about the answers, I started to mark them on the OMR sheet,' she added.
'True preparation culminates in confident execution. When well-prepared students enter examination halls, they carry not just knowledge but strategic awareness,' said Singh
We also asked NEET mentors for last-minute tips for candidates. Ujjwal Singh, CEO, Infinity Learn by Sri Chaitanya, said, 'True preparation culminates in confident execution. When well-prepared students enter examination halls, they carry not just knowledge but strategic awareness.'
