The number of students fromKarnatakaamong those securing the top 10,000 ranks in NEET-UG has more than doubled this year from pre-Covid times 436 state students made it to the 1-10,000 bracket as compared to 351 in 2020 and 198 in 2019.
The number of those who secured more than 700 marks out of 720 in the National Eligibility cum Entrance test (UG) this year was nearly four times more than that of 2020. As many as 11 students from Karnataka scored above 700 in 2021. As per the data shared by National Testing Agency, no student could get over 700 in 2019. In 2020, three students managed to make the cut.
In the top 50,000 ranks, there are 2,291 students from Karnataka, an increase of 279. In the first one lakh students, 5,364 are from Karnataka. The number was only 4,775 in 2020.