Re-NEET UG Result 2026 is out. The National Testing Agency declared it on 16 July 2026, and two names now sit at the very top of the country. Aryan Gupta from Punjab and Panshul Bansal from Haryana have jointly taken All India Rank 1. Both scored 715 out of 720.

Only 19 candidates in the whole country crossed 700 marks this year. Just 138 reached 690 or above. Of the nearly 20 lakh students who sat the re-examination on 21 June 2026, 11.21 lakh qualified.

If you have been refreshing neet.nta.nic.in since Thursday morning, you already have your number. The harder question comes right after. Where do I actually stand, and what do I do about it?

This blog carries the full official picture in one place. The AIR 1 holders, the complete list of 138 candidates at 690 and above. The top 20 boys and the top 20 girls. Category-wise and state-wise toppers. The qualifying cut-offs. And then, in plain language, the counselling steps that follow. Every table below names the source it came from, so you can check it yourself.

One question that often comes up is whether a strong NEET score is only useful for MBBS. It is not. The same scorecard opens BDS. For a large number of students, that turns out to be the better road, and we have covered that part properly near the end.

What This Blog Covers: 

• Re-NEET UG Result 2026 summary and highlights

• Re-NEET UG 2026 AIR 1 toppers

• Full list of the top 138 candidates (690 and above)

• Top 20 male and top 20 female toppers

• Category-wise toppers (UR, OBC-NCL, EWS, SC, ST, PwBD)

• State-wise and Union Territory toppers

• Score distribution and qualifying cut-offs

• How girls performed this year

• What to do after the result: counselling, step by step

• Why choose DJ College of Dental Sciences and Research

• Key USPs of the college

• Frequently asked questions

Re-NEET UG Result 2026 Summary: What Do the Numbers Say? 

Here is the short version of the Re-NEET UG Result 2026 before we go into the long lists. The re-examination was held on 21 June 2026 across 551 Indian cities and 14 international cities. The result landed on 16 July 2026.

Particular	Official Figure
Exam name	Re-NEET UG 2026 (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, Undergraduate)
Conducting body	National Testing Agency (NTA)
Re-examination date	21 June 2026
Result declared	16 July 2026
Candidates appeared	Nearly 20 lakh
Candidates qualified	11.21 lakh
Highest score	715 out of 720
Joint AIR 1	Aryan Gupta (Punjab) and Panshul Bansal (Haryana)
Candidates above 700	19
Candidates at 690 and above	138
Cities represented in the top 138	66
Exam centres	5,440
Indian cities	551
International cities	14
Languages	13
States and UTs with declared toppers	All 36
Official website	neet.nta.nic.in

Source: NTA official result release, as published by Physics Wallah (16 and 17 July 2026).

Topper Highlights at a Glance

• Highest score of the year: 715 out of 720, five marks short of a perfect paper.

• Two candidates share AIR 1. The last time the top spot was shared, the same debate about tie-breaking rules followed.

• The top 19 rankers, all above 705 marks, came from just eight states: Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar, Tamil Nadu and Telangana.

• The 138 highest scorers are spread across 66 cities, so the talent is not sitting in one or two coaching towns.

• Over 93 per cent of the top scorers were first-time candidates, not repeaters.

• Close to 99 per cent of the top scorers were aged 17 to 19.

Source: NTA, via Physics Wallah topper analysis (17 July 2026).

Who Are the Re-NEET UG 2026 AIR 1 Toppers? 

Aryan Gupta from Punjab and Panshul Bansal from Haryana are the joint All India Rank 1 holders of Re-NEET UG 2026. Both scored 715 out of 720 with a percentile of 99.9999.

Rank	Candidate Name	State	Marks (out of 720)	Percentile
AIR 1	Aryan Gupta	Punjab	715	99.9999
AIR 1	Panshul Bansal	Haryana	715	99.9999

Source: NTA official topper notification, via Physics Wallah (17 July 2026).

It is worth noting that 715 out of 720 means four correct-mark equivalents lost across three subjects. In practical terms, that is one wrong answer and nothing else. At this level, the gap between AIR 1 and AIR 20 is roughly a single question.

We have used the master 138 list order throughout this page and marked both candidates as joint AIR 1.

Re-NEET UG 2026: Full List of Top 138 Candidates (690+ Marks)  

As per the official NTA notification, 138 candidates scored 690 marks or above in the Re-NEET UG 2026 re-examination. This is the complete list of Re-NEET UG Toppers in that band, in rank order.

Read this before you scan the table. NTA published the rank, category, percentile and state for each of the 138 candidates, along with the score band of 690 and above out of 720. Individual marks were released only for the AIR 1 holders. So the marks column below shows 715 for the two toppers and the published band for everyone else. Nobody should be quoting exact marks for rank 47 or rank 112, because NTA has not released them.

AIR	Candidate Name	Gender	Category	Percentile	Marks	State
1 *	Aryan Gupta	Male	General	99.9999	715	Punjab
2 *	Panshul Bansal	Male	General	99.9999	715	Haryana
3	Uplakshya Goyal	Male	General	99.99985	690+	Rajasthan
4	Ayush Bhalotia	Male	General	99.99965	690+	Bihar
5	Kudale Shravani Krishna	Female	OBC-NCL	99.99965	690+	Maharashtra
6	Riya Ranjan	Female	OBC-NCL	99.99965	690+	Bihar
7	Aryan Dubey	Male	General	99.99965	690+	Uttar Pradesh
8	Geetansh Sarin	Male	General	99.99915	690+	Punjab
9	Gaurav Singh	Male	OBC-NCL	99.99915	690+	Rajasthan
10	Mohanish Maruti Bhosale	Male	General	99.99915	690+	Maharashtra
11	Abhilash	Male	OBC-NCL	99.99915	690+	Rajasthan
12	Venkatapathi Velayutham V A	Male	General	99.99915	690+	Tamil Nadu
13	Veeriahgari Sahyu	Male	General	99.99915	690+	Telangana
14	Patil Sarthak Mahesh	Male	General	99.99915	690+	Maharashtra
15	Krish Gupta	Male	General	99.99915	690+	Punjab
16	Kartik Chaudhary	Male	General	99.99915	690+	Rajasthan
17	Mansha Garg	Female	General	99.99915	690+	Haryana
18	Kritik Jain	Male	General	99.99905	690+	Rajasthan
19	Bura Sai Sharan	Male	OBC-NCL	99.99905	690+	Telangana
20	Vaishnavi Das	Female	General	99.9978999	690+	Karnataka
21	Kandagatla Haneesh	Male	OBC-NCL	99.9978999	690+	Telangana
22	Harshil Gupta	Male	General	99.9978999	690+	Rajasthan
23	Manasvi Kulshrestha	Female	General	99.9978999	690+	Haryana
24	Kashvi Dhall	Female	General	99.9978999	690+	Delhi
25	Taha Samun Bhatia	Male	Gen-EWS	99.9978999	690+	Gujarat
26	Patel Shaurya Bhavesh	Male	General	99.9978999	690+	Gujarat
27	Srinika V	Female	General	99.9978999	690+	Tamil Nadu
28	Sanidhya Kshitij Dongre	Male	SC	99.9978999	690+	Maharashtra
29	Ashi Goyal	Female	General	99.9978999	690+	Punjab
30	Akshit Kumar Gaur	Male	General	99.9978999	690+	Gujarat
31	Prakhar Bansal	Male	General	99.9978999	690+	Rajasthan
32	Arnav Lahoti	Male	General	99.9978999	690+	Maharashtra
33	Tembhurne Pranav Puranlal	Male	SC	99.9978999	690+	Maharashtra
34	Raushmit Gupta	Male	General	99.9978999	690+	Maharashtra
35	Sabyasachi Laskar	Male	General	99.9978999	690+	West Bengal
36	Namala Prerana	Female	General	99.9978999	690+	Andhra Pradesh
37	Rudraksha Kochar	Male	General	99.9978999	690+	Haryana
38	Andem Sai Charan Reddy	Male	General	99.9978999	690+	Telangana
39	Ranveer Kumar	Male	Gen-EWS	99.9978999	690+	Rajasthan
40	Satwik Patnaik	Male	General	99.9978999	690+	Odisha
41	Aanvi Saxena	Female	General	99.9978999	690+	Haryana
42	Mayuk Jayasimha	Male	General	99.9978999	690+	Telangana
43	Hiya Jasmin Vasavada	Female	General	99.9978499	690+	Gujarat
44	Madhvan Mahajan	Male	General	99.9976999	690+	Chandigarh (UT)
45	Sudar A M	Male	General	99.9976999	690+	Tamil Nadu
46	Aryaman Singh Solanki	Male	General	99.9976999	690+	Madhya Pradesh
47	Daivik Middha	Male	General	99.9959998	690+	Rajasthan
48	Suchita M	Female	General	99.9959998	690+	Karnataka
49	Thejas Varun Reddy	Male	General	99.9959998	690+	Delhi
50	Arnav Jindal	Male	General	99.9959998	690+	Punjab
51	Vanisha Satish	Female	General	99.9959998	690+	Tamil Nadu
52	Gunjan	Female	OBC-NCL	99.9959998	690+	Uttar Pradesh
53	Patil Soham Nishikant	Male	General	99.9959998	690+	Maharashtra
54	Yash	Male	OBC-NCL	99.9959998	690+	Rajasthan
55	Ravi Kant Diwakar	Male	SC	99.9959998	690+	Bihar
56	Bhavika Gupta	Female	General	99.9959998	690+	Punjab
57	Saumya Patel	Male	General	99.9959998	690+	Gujarat
58	Anushka Choudhary	Female	OBC-NCL	99.9959998	690+	Rajasthan
59	Sabaree G N	Male	OBC-NCL	99.9959998	690+	Tamil Nadu
60	Hanshika	Female	General	99.9959998	690+	Delhi
61	Ankur Kumar	Male	OBC-NCL	99.9959998	690+	Delhi
62	Ravikiran Kini	Male	General	99.9959998	690+	Karnataka
63	Prakul Garg	Male	General	99.9959998	690+	Punjab
64	Diganth B S	Male	General	99.9959998	690+	Karnataka
65	Kushagra Mittal	Male	General	99.9959998	690+	Delhi
66	Harshul Garg	Male	General	99.9959998	690+	Chandigarh (UT)
67	Sagar Rajesh Karikar	Male	General	99.9959998	690+	Maharashtra
68	Vansham Raj Singh	Male	General	99.9959998	690+	Uttar Pradesh
69	Johann Job	Male	General	99.9959998	690+	Karnataka
70	Samarth Saini	Male	General	99.9959998	690+	Chandigarh (UT)
71	Bhavyaa Gunwal	Female	General	99.9959998	690+	Rajasthan
72	Krish Chauhan	Male	General	99.9959998	690+	Uttar Pradesh
73	Aditya Kumar	Male	General	99.9959998	690+	Bihar
74	Grandhi Haneesh	Male	General	99.9959998	690+	Andhra Pradesh
75	R Jaikrishna	Male	OBC-NCL	99.9959998	690+	Tamil Nadu
76	Aditya Sharma	Male	Gen-EWS	99.9959998	690+	Rajasthan
77	Saumya Badole	Male	SC	99.9959998	690+	Maharashtra
78	Thanth Khushal Vijaybhai	Male	General	99.9959998	690+	Gujarat
79	Divit Jain	Male	General	99.9959998	690+	Punjab
80	Amaan Kumar Nayak	Male	General	99.9959998	690+	Odisha
81	Mohammad Fawwaz	Male	General	99.9959498	690+	Delhi
82	Samvitha P	Female	OBC-NCL	99.9957998	690+	Tamil Nadu
83	Kompella Sai Gayathri Tejoarunima	Female	General	99.9957998	690+	Telangana
84	Ananya Sinha	Female	General	99.9957998	690+	Delhi
85	Thorat Anushri Ajay	Female	General	99.9954998	690+	Maharashtra
86	Relangi Jayashanmukhi	Female	OBC-NCL	99.9954998	690+	Andhra Pradesh
87	Saurabh Agrawal	Male	General	99.9954998	690+	Rajasthan
88	Navithana B	Female	OBC-NCL	99.9954998	690+	Tamil Nadu
89	Neeraj B	Male	OBC-NCL	99.9954998	690+	Kerala
90	Arya Abhijit Divekar	Male	General	99.9954998	690+	Maharashtra
91	Rutumbika Mohanty	Female	General	99.9951497	690+	Telangana
92	Nikhil Sivananthan S	Male	General	99.9951497	690+	Tamil Nadu
93	Patel Premal	Male	General	99.9951497	690+	Gujarat
94	Shreyankh J	Male	General	99.9951497	690+	Karnataka
95	Chetanya Kumar	Male	General	99.9951497	690+	Haryana
96	Aditya Banerjee	Male	General	99.9951497	690+	Delhi
97	Vinayak Garg	Male	General	99.9951497	690+	Punjab
98	Daksh Maggu	Male	General	99.9930996	690+	Haryana
99	Hadiya Nisar	Female	General	99.9930996	690+	Jammu & Kashmir
100	Rishit Singla	Male	General	99.9930996	690+	Punjab
101	Shukla Dhyan Anand	Male	General	99.9930996	690+	Gujarat
102	Nabhya Mohan Mehta	Male	General	99.9930996	690+	Delhi
103	Kondreddi Harika Devi Sri Anuhya	Female	General	99.9930996	690+	Andhra Pradesh
104	Ekagra Yadav	Male	General	99.9930996	690+	Uttar Pradesh
105	Srinarayan Hari Mishra	Male	General	99.9930996	690+	Uttar Pradesh
106	Patwegar Sahim Sadiq	Male	OBC-NCL	99.9930996	690+	Maharashtra
107	Arima Jha	Female	General	99.9930996	690+	Uttar Pradesh
108	Priyanshu Lamba	Male	OBC-NCL	99.9930996	690+	Rajasthan
109	Sampreeth J	Male	General	99.9930996	690+	Karnataka
110	Aaradhya Garg	Male	General	99.9930996	690+	Madhya Pradesh
111	Himanshu Kumar	Male	Gen-EWS	99.9930996	690+	Rajasthan
112	Janani Swethaa D R	Female	General	99.9930996	690+	Tamil Nadu
113	Rajdeep Gupta	Male	Gen-EWS	99.9930996	690+	Rajasthan
114	Mihir Narendrabhai Patel	Male	General	99.9930996	690+	Gujarat
115	Rohit Mathew Rabindrarajan E	Male	General	99.9930996	690+	Tamil Nadu
116	Suhan Salim Shaikh	Male	OBC-NCL	99.9930996	690+	Maharashtra
117	Shiprak Goyal	Male	General	99.9930996	690+	Chhattisgarh
118	Abhiram M	Male	OBC-NCL	99.9930996	690+	Karnataka
119	Amir Fidaequaem Varawalla	Male	General	99.9930996	690+	Maharashtra
120	Sarthak Pethkar	Male	OBC-NCL	99.9930996	690+	Maharashtra
121	Prince Nehra	Male	OBC-NCL	99.9930996	690+	Rajasthan
122	Shriwallabha Vishnupant Gawade	Male	OBC-NCL	99.9930996	690+	Maharashtra
123	Devesh Shreegopal Agrawal	Male	General	99.9930996	690+	Telangana
124	Zaidan Wani	Male	General	99.9930996	690+	Jammu & Kashmir
125	Vanga Srinivasa Reddy	Male	General	99.9930996	690+	Andhra Pradesh
126	Vaddepalli Dushyant	Male	OBC-NCL	99.9930996	690+	Andhra Pradesh
127	Panav Sukhija	Male	General	99.9930996	690+	Haryana
128	Aakarsh Gupta	Male	General	99.9930996	690+	Himachal Pradesh
129	Mayank Kumar Singh	Male	General	99.9930996	690+	Rajasthan
130	Panav Saharan	Male	General	99.9930996	690+	Delhi
131	Krishna Yadav	Male	OBC-NCL	99.9930996	690+	Uttar Pradesh
132	Arsh Chauhan	Male	General	99.9930996	690+	Uttar Pradesh
133	Shubh Prasad	Male	General	99.9930996	690+	Assam
134	J Jaykrishna	Male	OBC-NCL	99.9930996	690+	Tamil Nadu
135	Yash	Male	OBC-NCL	99.9930996	690+	Haryana
136	Charvi Agrawal	Female	General	99.9930996	690+	Chhattisgarh
137	Gopal Vijay Patil	Male	General	99.9930996	690+	Maharashtra
138	Md Ahmadullah Shamim	Male	General	99.9930996	690+	Delhi

* Ranks 1 and 2 are declared joint All India Rank 1 by NTA. The serial order in NTA’s official list matches the All India Rank.

Source: NTA official Re-NEET UG 2026 topper list, reproduced by Physics Wallah and Shiksha (17 July 2026).

What the Top 138 List Actually Tells Us

Look past the names and a pattern shows up. Rajasthan and Maharashtra dominate the volume. Punjab and Haryana own the very top. Southern states carry strength through the middle of the list rather than at the peak. And the OBC-NCL category is not trailing at all: the highest-ranked girl in the country, Kudale Shravani Krishna at AIR 5, is an OBC-NCL candidate.

State	Candidates in the Top 138	Share of the List
Rajasthan	23	16.7%
Maharashtra	20	14.5%
Tamil Nadu	12	8.7%
Delhi	11	8.0%
Punjab	10	7.2%
Haryana	9	6.5%
Gujarat	9	6.5%
Telangana	8	5.8%
Uttar Pradesh	8	5.8%
Karnataka	7	5.1%
Andhra Pradesh	5	3.6%
Bihar	4	2.9%
Chandigarh (UT)	3	2.2%
Madhya Pradesh	2	1.4%
Chhattisgarh	2	1.4%
Jammu & Kashmir	2	1.4%
Odisha	2	1.4%
West Bengal, Kerala, Assam, Himachal Pradesh	1 each	0.7% each

Source: Counted by the DJ Dental academics desk from NTA’s published top 138 list. Percentages rounded to one decimal place.

Re-NEET 2026: Top 20 Male and Top 20 Female Toppers: 

Among the top 138 candidates, NTA separately released a top 20 list by gender. The highest-ranked female candidate is Kudale Shravani Krishna of Maharashtra at NEET rank 5. The highest-ranked male candidates are Aryan Gupta and Panshul Bansal, both at rank 1.

Top 20 Female Toppers, Re-NEET UG 2026

Sr.	Candidate Name	Category	Percentile	NEET Rank	Marks	State
1	Kudale Shravani Krishna	OBC-NCL	99.99965	5	690+	Maharashtra
2	Riya Ranjan	OBC-NCL	99.99965	6	690+	Bihar
3	Mansha Garg	General	99.99915	17	690+	Haryana
4	Vaishnavi Das	General	99.9979	20	690+	Karnataka
5	Manasvi Kulshrestha	General	99.9979	23	690+	Haryana
6	Kashvi Dhall	General	99.9979	24	690+	Delhi
7	Srinika V	General	99.9979	27	690+	Tamil Nadu
8	Ashi Goyal	General	99.9979	29	690+	Punjab
9	Namala Prerana	General	99.9979	36	690+	Andhra Pradesh
10	Aanvi Saxena	General	99.9979	41	690+	Haryana
11	Hiya Jasmin Vasavada	General	99.99785	43	690+	Gujarat
12	Suchita M	General	99.996	48	690+	Karnataka
13	Vanisha Satish	General	99.996	51	690+	Tamil Nadu
14	Gunjan	OBC-NCL	99.996	52	690+	Uttar Pradesh
15	Bhavika Gupta	General	99.996	56	690+	Punjab
16	Anushka Choudhary	OBC-NCL	99.996	58	690+	Rajasthan
17	Hanshika	General	99.996	60	690+	Delhi
18	Bhavyaa Gunwal	General	99.996	71	690+	Rajasthan
19	Samvitha P	OBC-NCL	99.9958	82	690+	Tamil Nadu
20	Kompella Sai Gayathri Tejoarunima	General	99.9958	83	690+	Telangana

Source: NTA official gender-wise topper list, via Physics Wallah (17 July 2026). NTA did not publish individual marks for this list.

Top 20 Male Toppers, Re-NEET UG 2026

Sr.	Candidate Name	Category	Percentile	NEET Rank	Marks	State
1	Aryan Gupta	General	99.9999	1 (Joint AIR 1)	715	Punjab
2	Panshul Bansal	General	99.9999	1 (Joint AIR 1)	715	Haryana
3	Uplakshya Goyal	General	99.99985	3	690+	Rajasthan
4	Ayush Bhalotia	General	99.99965	4	690+	Bihar
5	Aryan Dubey	General	99.99965	7	690+	Uttar Pradesh
6	Geetansh Sarin	General	99.99915	8	690+	Punjab
7	Gaurav Singh	OBC-NCL (Central List)	99.99915	9	690+	Rajasthan
8	Mohanish Maruti Bhosale	General	99.99915	10	690+	Maharashtra
9	Abhilash	OBC-NCL (Central List)	99.99915	11	690+	Rajasthan
10	Venkatapathi Velayutham V A	General	99.99915	12	690+	Tamil Nadu
11	Veeriahgari Sahyu	General	99.99915	13	690+	Telangana
12	Patil Sarthak Mahesh	General	99.99915	14	690+	Maharashtra
13	Krish Gupta	General	99.99915	15	690+	Punjab
14	Kartik Chaudhary	General	99.99915	16	690+	Rajasthan
15	Kritik Jain	General	99.99905	18	690+	Rajasthan
16	Bura Sai Sharan	OBC-NCL (Central List)	99.99905	19	690+	Telangana
17	Kandagatla Haneesh	OBC-NCL (Central List)	99.9979	21	690+	Telangana
18	Harshil Gupta	General	99.9979	22	690+	Rajasthan
19	Taha Samun Bhatia	Gen-EWS	99.9979	25	690+	Gujarat
20	Patel Shaurya Bhavesh	General	99.9979	26	690+	Gujarat

Re-NEET UG 2026: Category-Wise Toppers

NTA released separate merit lists for each reservation category. If you are trying to work out where your own rank sits inside your category, these are the numbers that matter, because counselling runs on category merit, not on the open All India Rank alone.

Unreserved (UR) Category, Top 10

Sr.	Candidate Name	NEET Rank	State
1	Aryan Gupta	1 (Joint AIR 1)	Punjab
2	Panshul Bansal	1 (Joint AIR 1)	Haryana
3	Uplakshya Goyal	3	Rajasthan
4	Ayush Bhalotia	4	Bihar
5	Aryan Dubey	7	Uttar Pradesh
6	Geetansh Sarin	8	Punjab
7	Mohanish Maruti Bhosale	10	Maharashtra
8	Venkatapathi Velayutham V A	12	Tamil Nadu
9	Veeriahgari Sahyu	13	Telangana
10	Patil Sarthak Mahesh	14	Maharashtra

Source: NTA category-wise topper list, via Physics Wallah (17 July 2026).

OBC-NCL Category, Top 10

Sr.	Candidate Name	Gender	NEET Rank	State
1	Kudale Shravani Krishna	Female	5	Maharashtra
2	Riya Ranjan	Female	6	Bihar
3	Gaurav Singh	Male	9	Rajasthan
4	Abhilash	Male	11	Rajasthan
5	Bura Sai Sharan	Male	19	Telangana
6	Kandagatla Haneesh	Male	21	Telangana
7	Gunjan	Female	52	Uttar Pradesh
8	Yash	Male	54	Rajasthan
9	Anushka Choudhary	Female	58	Rajasthan
10	Sabaree G N	Male	59	Tamil Nadu

Source: NTA category-wise topper list, via Physics Wallah (17 July 2026).

It is interesting to observe that the OBC-NCL list opens with two girls at AIR 5 and AIR 6. Both outrank every other candidate in the country apart from four.

Gen-EWS Category, Top 10

Sr.	Candidate Name	NEET Rank	State
1	Taha Samun Bhatia	25	Gujarat
2	Ranveer Kumar	39	Rajasthan
3	Aditya Sharma	76	Rajasthan
4	Himanshu Kumar	111	Rajasthan
5	Rajdeep Gupta	113	Rajasthan
6	Aditya Kumar	146	Rajasthan
7	Jadhav Sameer Abhay	177	Maharashtra
8	Hritik Raj	206	Haryana
9	Mankar Aniket Nitin	211	Maharashtra
10	Ganga Singh	212	Rajasthan

Source: NTA category-wise topper list, via Physics Wallah (17 July 2026).

SC Category, Top 10

Sr.	Candidate Name	Gender	NEET Rank	State
1	Sanidhya Kshitij Dongre	Male	28	Maharashtra
2	Tembhurne Pranav Puranlal	Male	33	Maharashtra
3	Ravi Kant Diwakar	Male	55	Bihar
4	Saumya Badole	Male	77	Maharashtra
5	Divya Aryan	Female	143	Rajasthan
6	Tanush Verma	Male	151	Uttar Pradesh
7	Paras Saroha	Male	180	Haryana
8	Astitva Singh	Male	365	Rajasthan
9	Ramneet Kaur	Female	587	Punjab
10	Satyam Raj	Male	592	Bihar

ST Category, Top 10

Sr.	Candidate Name	NEET Rank	State
1	Vivek Meena	260	Rajasthan
2	Porika Sunny	494	Telangana
3	Kethavath Pranith	610	Telangana
4	Bhavesh Suresh Chavan	650	Maharashtra
5	Arpit Meena	844	Rajasthan
6	Valluru Siddardha	856	Andhra Pradesh
7	Udit Meena	904	Rajasthan
8	Himesh Khokhar	921	Rajasthan
9	Vibhor	968	Rajasthan
10	Rohan Dhope	987	Madhya Pradesh

PwBD Category, Top 5 Female

Sr.	Candidate Name	Category	NEET Rank	State
1	Vaibhavi Shukla	Gen-EWS	5866	Uttar Pradesh
2	Fathima Hiba A	OBC-NCL	8186	Kerala
3	Naziya Parveen	Gen-EWS	11324	Rajasthan
4	Dusi Vaishnavi	OBC-NCL	12977	Andhra Pradesh
5	Rucha Prasad Joshi	General	23871	Maharashtra

PwBD Category, Top 5 Male

Sr.	Candidate Name	Category	NEET Rank	State
1	Vivek Chaurasiya	OBC-NCL	1164	Uttar Pradesh
2	Prince Kumar	OBC-NCL	3552	Bihar
3	Diganth Eshwar V	General	4162	Karnataka
4	Mohammad Shakeeb Mohammad Kaleem	OBC-NCL	4554	Maharashtra
5	Kamlesh Nayak	SC	6069	Maharashtra

How Many Candidates Qualified in Each Category?

This is the table most students skip, and it is the one that decides your counselling maths. Your competition is not 11.21 lakh people. It is the people in your own category queue.

Category	Qualified Candidates	Share of Total Qualified (approx.)
OBC-NCL	5.12 lakh	45.7%
General	2.91 lakh	26.0%
SC	1.59 lakh	14.2%
Gen-EWS	95,026	8.5%
ST	63,716	5.7%
PwBD	3,666	0.3%
PwD	303	0.03%
Total	11.21 lakh	100%

Re-NEET UG 2026: State-Wise Toppers

NTA declared state and Union Territory toppers across all 36 states and UTs. The table below carries the toppers published so far, in rank order. Two further entries, Sankalp Sandeep Naik at rank 1398 and Muhammad Ayaan Yusuf Kolnad at rank 1442, are listed by NTA under “Outside India”.

State / UT	Topper	NEET Rank	Percentile	Marks
Punjab	Aryan Gupta	1 (Joint AIR 1)	99.9999	715
Haryana	Panshul Bansal	1 (Joint AIR 1)	99.9999	715
Rajasthan	Uplakshya Goyal	3	99.99985	Not published
Bihar	Ayush Bhalotia	4	99.99965	Not published
Maharashtra	Kudale Shravani Krishna	5	99.99965	Not published
Uttar Pradesh	Aryan Dubey	7	99.99965	Not published
Tamil Nadu	Venkatapathi Velayutham V A	12	99.99915	Not published
Telangana	Veeriahgari Sahyu	13	99.99915	Not published
Karnataka	Vaishnavi Das	20	99.9979	Not published
Delhi	Kashvi Dhall	24	99.9979	Not published
Gujarat	Taha Samun Bhatia	25	99.9979	Not published
West Bengal	Sabyasachi Laskar	35	99.9979	Not published
Andhra Pradesh	Namala Prerana	36	99.9979	Not published
Odisha	Satwik Patnaik	40	99.9979	Not published
Chandigarh (UT)	Madhvan Mahajan	44	99.9977	Not published
Madhya Pradesh	Aryaman Singh Solanki	46	99.9977	Not published
Kerala	Neeraj B	89	99.9955	Not published
Jammu & Kashmir	Hadiya Nisar	99	99.9931	Not published
Chhattisgarh	Shiprak Goyal	117	99.9931	Not published
Himachal Pradesh	Aakarsh Gupta	128	99.9931	Not published
Assam	Shubh Prasad	133	99.9931	Not published
Tripura	Baibhab Roy	166	99.9914	Not published
Uttarakhand	Aadi Jain	242	99.9871	Not published
Jharkhand	Suharsh Kumar Gupta	455	99.9771	Not published
Puducherry	Krishanth Abhinav M	553	99.9721	Not published
Goa	Saloni Utagi	3033	99.84259	Not published
Daman & Diu	Tandel Dhairya Devendra	3104	99.84259	Not published
Manipur	Javed Hasan	7105	99.63008	Not published
Andaman & Nicobar Islands	Dhruv Tripathi	8339	99.58183	606
Arunachal Pradesh	Lirik Ete	8673	99.55378	Not published
Mizoram	H Malsawmdawngzuala	11875	99.40602	Not published
Meghalaya	Bakhambok Anthony Thabah	14455	99.26791	Not published
Sikkim	Richa Subba	14777	99.24741	Not published
Dadra & Nagar Haveli	Gupta Jaya Anil	16657	99.15936	Not published
Lakshadweep (UT)	Fahmida Anees	21815	98.90314	573
Nagaland	Subhasmita Nayak	42124	97.86464	Not published
Ladakh (UT)	Jigmet Yangchan Lamo	55742	97.20445	530

The spread here is the interesting part. The gap between the Punjab topper (rank 1) and the Ladakh topper (rank 55,742) is not a statement about ability. It is a statement about how many candidates each state sends into the exam hall. Ladakh’s topper at 530 marks would be a strong performer in most of the country.

Re-NEET UG Result 2026 Score Distribution and Qualifying Cut-Off

The Re-NEET UG Result 2026 score distribution is where most students find their footing. It answers the only question that really matters on result day: how many people are ahead of me?

Score Distribution

Score Range (out of 720)	Number of Candidates	What It Means in Practice
Above 700	19	Single-digit to low double-digit All India Rank
690 and above	138	Top 138 in the country, published by name
650 and above	1,492	Comfortable for government MBBS in most states
600 and above	10,160	Government MBBS is realistic in many states
500 and above	90,780	Strong BDS territory, including government dental colleges

Category-Wise Qualifying Cut-Off

Qualifying cut-offs rose across every category this year. A word on what these numbers are, because this trips up thousands of students annually. The qualifying cut-off only decides whether your name enters the merit list. It does not decide whether you get a seat. Admission cut-offs are published separately as opening and closing ranks after each counselling round, and they sit far higher.

Category	Qualifying Percentile	Cut-Off Marks 2026
UR / EWS	50th percentile	715 to 213
OBC	40th percentile	212 to 177
SC	40th percentile	212 to 177
ST	40th percentile	212 to 177
UR / EWS-PwBD	45th percentile	212 to 194
OBC-PwBD	40th percentile	193 to 177
SC-PwBD	40th percentile	193 to 177
ST-PwBD	40th percentile	191 to 178

Source: NTA official cut-off PDF released with the result, as reported by Careers360 (16 July 2026).

How This Year’s Cut-Off Compares with Previous Years

The situation has changed considerably over the last few years. The General category qualifying mark has jumped by a wide margin against 2025. Anyone comparing their score against last year’s benchmarks is working with the wrong yardstick.

Year	Qualifying Percentile (General)	Minimum Qualifying Marks (out of 720)	Change vs Previous Year
2026 (Re-NEET)	50th percentile	213	Up by 69 marks
2025	50th percentile	144	Down by 18 marks
2024	50th percentile	162	Up by 25 marks
2023	50th percentile	137	Reference year

Source: 2023 to 2025 figures from Careers360’s NEET cut-off records; 2026 figure from the NTA cut-off PDF released with the Re-NEET result. Year-on-year change calculated by the DJ Dental academics desk.

A sharp rise like this usually points to one of two things. Either the paper was gentler than expected, or the candidate pool performed better across the board. With 11.21 lakh qualifying out of roughly 20 lakh, both look plausible. The practical takeaway for you is simpler: your marks mean less this year than your rank does. Stop comparing scores with last year’s seniors.

How Did Girls Perform in Re-NEET UG 2026?

Girls outperformed boys again, and by a wider gap than the headline suggests. Over 58 per cent of all qualified candidates are women.

Measure	Female Candidates	Male Candidates	Gap
Qualification rate	56.8%	55.1%	1.7 percentage points in favour of girls
Share of all qualified candidates	Over 58%	Under 42%	Roughly 16 percentage points
Highest rank achieved	AIR 5 (Kudale Shravani Krishna)	AIR 1 (joint)	Boys hold the top spot this year
Count in the top 138	26	112	Boys lead the very top band

There is little doubt that the story of the last decade in Indian medical entrance is the steady rise of girls in the qualified pool. The top band still tilts male, and that is a real gap worth naming rather than glossing over. But the qualification rate has been the other way round for years now, and dental colleges see it clearly. Walk into any BDS lecture hall in North India and count the seats.

What To Do After the Re-NEET UG Result 2026?

You have the scorecard. Now the Re-NEET UG Result 2026 turns into a set of deadlines, and missing one of them costs a year. Here is the sequence, without any padding.

Step by Step

1. Download and check your scorecard. Log in at neet.nta.nic.in with your application number and date of birth. Check every field: name spelling, category, PwBD status, domicile state. An error here becomes a rejection at document verification.

2. Work out your rank, not your marks. Your All India Rank and your category rank decide everything from here. Marks are just the input.

3. Decide your realistic list. Government MBBS, private MBBS, government BDS, private BDS, BAMS, BSc Nursing. Be honest at this stage. Students who refuse to look at BDS in July are the ones scrambling in September.

4. Register for counselling. Two separate processes run at once, and you should register for both if you are eligible. Details in the table below.

5. Fill choices carefully. This is where most seats are lost. Not in the exam hall. Order your choices by genuine preference, and fill more of them than you think you need.

6. Watch the seat allotment rounds. Round 1, Round 2, mop-up, stray vacancy. Each has its own reporting deadline and its own forfeiture rules.

7. Verify documents and report. Reach the allotted college before the deadline with originals. Late reporting means the seat goes to the next candidate.

All India Quota vs State Quota: Which One Applies to You?

Many parents and students still believe these are alternatives. They are not. Most candidates are eligible for both and should register for both.

Point of Comparison	All India Quota (AIQ)	State Quota
Share of seats	15% of government seats	85% of government seats
Conducting authority	Medical Counselling Committee (MCC)	Individual state counselling authorities
Website	mcc.nic.in	Varies by state
Domicile requirement	None. Open to all qualified candidates	State domicile rules apply
Private and deemed colleges	Deemed and central universities handled by MCC	State private colleges handled by the state
Courses covered	MBBS, BDS	MBBS, BDS, and in most states AYUSH and nursing
Should you register?	Yes, if you qualified	Yes, if you meet the domicile rules

Source: Counselling structure as described by NTA and Careers360’s NEET counselling guidance (July 2026). Always confirm against mcc.nic.in and your own state authority’s notice.

Documents You Will Need for Counselling

Document	Required From	Common Mistake to Avoid
Re-NEET UG 2026 scorecard	All candidates	Printing the provisional copy instead of the final one
Re-NEET UG 2026 admit card	All candidates	Losing it after the exam. Redownload it now
Class 10 certificate	All candidates	Used for date of birth proof, not marks
Class 12 marksheet and certificate	All candidates	Compartment or improvement results not yet declared
Category certificate	OBC-NCL, SC, ST, EWS candidates	Wrong format, or an NCL certificate that has expired
PwBD certificate	PwBD candidates	Issued by a non-designated centre
Domicile certificate	State quota candidates	Applying to a state where you do not meet the rules
Photo identity proof	All candidates	Name mismatch against the NEET application
Passport-size photographs	All candidates	Carrying fewer than eight copies

What If Your Score Is Good, But Not MBBS Good?

It is quite common to hear a student say they will drop a year rather than take BDS. Sometimes that is the right call. Often it is not, and the decision gets made in a week of disappointment rather than with a clear head.

Here is the arithmetic nobody puts in front of you on result day. Of the 11.21 lakh candidates who qualified this year, government MBBS seats will absorb a small fraction. The rest choose between private MBBS, BDS, AYUSH, nursing, allied health, or another attempt. A second attempt costs a year of your life and carries no guarantee, because the cut-off moved 69 marks in a single year and nobody predicted that either.

From a student’s perspective, the honest comparison looks like this.

Point of Comparison	MBBS	BDS	BAMS	BSc Nursing
Course length	4.5 years	4 years	4.5 years	4 years
Compulsory internship	1 year	1 year	1 year	Included
Total to practice	5.5 years	5 years	5.5 years	4 years
Entrance	NEET UG	NEET UG	NEET UG	NEET UG
Regulator	NMC	Dental Council of India	NCISM	Indian Nursing Council
Postgraduate route	NEET PG	NEET MDS	AIAPGET	MSc Nursing
Private practice from day one	No, PG usually needed	Yes, BDS graduates can set up practice	Yes	No

Note: BDS at DJ College of Dental Sciences and Research runs as a 4-year programme with a 1-year compulsory rotatory internship, and MDS runs for 3 years.

A BDS graduate can open a clinic. An MBBS graduate without a PG seat, in most cases, cannot build a practice on the same footing. That single difference reshapes the maths for a lot of families once they sit down and actually work it out.

Why Choose DJ College of Dental Sciences & Research?

If you have been thinking about BDS after seeing your rank, the next job is picking a college that will genuinely teach you to work on patients. That sounds obvious. It is not always what happens.

Ask any experienced dentist what separated the confident graduates from the nervous ones, and they will not talk about lecture hours. They will talk about chair time. A student who has personally handled fifty extractions is a different professional from one who has watched fifty. Patient volume is the single thing you should be checking, and almost nobody checks it.

This is where things become interesting. DJ College of Dental Sciences and Research runs an attached teaching hospital on its 75-acre campus at Modinagar, and each department sees over 100 patients a day. That is not a brochure line. It is the reason the setup exists.

The college was established in 1999 under founder chairman Ajit Singh Jassar and was one of the first five private dental colleges in Uttar Pradesh. It is recognised by the Dental Council of India and affiliated to Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical University. It is also the only dental college in Asia with membership of the American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry, which matters if you have any interest in treating patients with special needs, an area most Indian dentists never train for.

DJ College of Dental Sciences and Research at a Glance

Particular	Detail
Established	1999
Founder Chairman	Shri Ajit Singh Jassar
Location	Modinagar, Uttar Pradesh (Delhi NCR)
Recognition	Dental Council of India (DCI)
Affiliation	Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical University (ABVMU)
Position in state	Among the first five private dental colleges in Uttar Pradesh
Campus	75 acres
Attached hospital	300+ bedded teaching hospital
Daily patient flow	100+ patients per department, per day
Clinical departments	9 specialist departments
Faculty	110+
Alumni	2,000+
Research papers published	800+
Paper presentations, national and international	539+
Awards	100+
Unique membership	Only dental college in Asia with American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry membership
Programmes	BDS (4 years plus 1 year internship), MDS (3 years), Dental Hygienist (2 years), Dental Mechanic (2 years)

MDS Specialisations and Seat Positions

For anyone reading this page with a longer horizon than one admission cycle, the postgraduate side is worth a look now rather than in your fourth year. DJ runs nine MDS departments.

MDS Specialisation	Seats	Focus Areas
Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics	6	Endodontics, cosmetic and restorative work
Prosthodontics, Crown & Bridge and Implantology	6	Maxillofacial rehabilitation, implants
Periodontology & Oral Implantology	6	Gum care, implantology
Oral Pathology & Microbiology	6	Histology, laboratory diagnostics, research
Orthodontics & Dentofacial Orthopaedics	6	Dentofacial orthopaedics, mini implants
Paediatric & Preventive Dentistry	6	Child dental care, pedodontics
Oral Medicine & Radiology	3	Diagnosis, CBCT imaging
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery	3	Trauma, surgical implantology
Public Health Dentistry	3	Epidemiology, community and social welfare work
Total	45

Final Thoughts: 

The Re-NEET UG Result 2026 has given us two joint toppers at 715, a cut-off that climbed 69 marks in a year, 11.21 lakh qualified candidates, and 138 names that will be quoted in coaching advertisements until next June. All of that is worth reading once.

What deserves more of your time is the next four weeks. The Re-NEET UG Toppers list will not change your rank. Your choice filling will. Register for both All India Quota and state counselling. Fill more choices than you think you need. Keep your documents in one folder. Read every MCC notice on the day it appears.

And if your score sits in the band where MBBS is uncertain but BDS is comfortable, sit with that honestly rather than reflexively planning a drop year. Five years from now, a dentist with 100 patients a day behind them is in a stronger position than a repeater with two attempts behind them. To a large extent, that is the whole calculation.

FAQs:

Who topped Re-NEET UG 2026?

Aryan Gupta from Punjab and Panshul Bansal from Haryana jointly topped Re-NEET UG 2026 with All India Rank 1. Both scored 715 out of 720 at a percentile of 99.9999.

How many students scored above 700 marks in Re-NEET UG 2026?

19 candidates scored above 700 marks out of 720 in Re-NEET UG 2026.

How many candidates scored 690 marks and above?

138 candidates scored 690 marks or above. NTA published all 138 names, ranks, categories, percentiles and states.

How many students qualified Re-NEET UG 2026?

11.21 lakh candidates qualified out of nearly 20 lakh who appeared for the re-examination held on 21 June 2026.

What is the qualifying cut-off for Re-NEET UG 2026?

For the General and EWS categories the cut-off is the 50th percentile, which works out to 213 to 715 marks. For OBC, SC and ST the cut-off is the 40th percentile, or 177 to 212 marks.

Has the Re-NEET UG 2026 cut-off gone up?

Yes. The General category qualifying mark rose from 144 in 2025 to 213 in 2026, an increase of 69 marks.

Which state produced the Re-NEET UG 2026 topper?

Punjab and Haryana. Aryan Gupta is from Punjab and Panshul Bansal is from Haryana, and both hold joint AIR 1.

Who is the female topper of Re-NEET UG 2026?

Kudale Shravani Krishna from Maharashtra is the highest-ranked female candidate at All India Rank 5, in the OBC-NCL category.

Did girls outperform boys in Re-NEET UG 2026?

Yes on qualification. 56.8 per cent of female candidates qualified against 55.1 per cent of male candidates, and over 58 per cent of all qualified candidates are women. Boys hold the top ranks this year.

Where can I download the Re-NEET Toppers List 2026 PDF?

The complete list is published on the official NTA portal at neet.nta.nic.in, along with individual scorecards.

Can I take BDS admission with my Re-NEET UG 2026 score?

Yes. The same NEET UG scorecard is used for BDS admission. Counselling runs through the Medical Counselling Committee for the 15 per cent All India Quota and through state authorities for the 85 per cent state quota.

When will NEET counselling 2026 begin?

MCC will publish the NEET counselling 2026 schedule at mcc.nic.in. NTA has indicated that the result was prioritised so that admissions start without disturbing the academic calendar.

Is DJ College of Dental Sciences and Research recognised by DCI?

Yes. DJ College of Dental Sciences and Research is recognised by the Dental Council of India and affiliated to Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical University. It was established in 1999.

What programmes does DJ College of Dental Sciences and Research offer?

BDS over 4 years plus a 1-year compulsory internship, MDS over 3 years across nine specialisations, and two-year allied programmes in Dental Hygiene and Dental Mechanics.

How many patients do DJ Dental students see during training?

Each department at the attached teaching hospital sees over 100 patients a day, which gives BDS and MDS students direct chair time from early in the course.