‘NEET re-test Paper was hard, but we had prepared for a difficult paper’
The NEET 2026 re-test paper was harder than the first one, but she was prepared for it. With a total of 695 marks, she bagged
The NEET 2026 re-test paper was harder than the first one, but she was prepared for it. With a total of 695 marks, she bagged the all-India 51 rank. Vanisha Satish is quite happy and her family is jubilant, although she expected a better rank for the marks she scored. “A better rank would have helped me get admission into a better institution with ease,” Vanisha says. Top on her choice list are the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi and Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry. “I understand it is a very good rank, and I am happy,” she notes.
Both AIIMS, New Delhi and JIPMER are the top choices of V. Navithana as well, who secured the all-India rank of 88 with a total marks of 692. “It is perhaps a little more than I expected,” she admits. An intriguing aspect in this year’s NEET re-test results was that in spite of the paper being quite hard, more number of students seem to have scored high marks. “This is because all aspirants expected the paper to be hard, given the experience with NEET 2025, and everyone prepared for a much higher scale,” Vanisha explains. Navithana agrees: “We were given more hard questions in mock tests.
So, we were prepared for a tough paper.” The first exam, according to Vanisha, was relatively easy but the re-test paper was quite tough. “ALLEN Career Institute helped me prepare for this,” she notes. Vanisha has been preparing for NEET since Class XI, when she joined Sri Krish International School. She said her daily classes of four-five hours at the institute helped her prepare well. Weekdays were cramped with school and coaching classes, so she caught up with self-study and problem solving during the weekends. When she took a break, she either picked up a book or watched TV shows. Her mongrel siblings kept her sharp and stress-free.
Daughter of software engineers, Vanisha aspires to be an oncologist. Navithana enrolled into the NEET integrated course at St. John’s Public School and was separately pursuing private coaching for NEET. Long hours of study meant fewer hours of sleep, but she would make up for it whenever she found a window. “I slept for six hours at night and would catch up with a nap in between studies whenever I could,” she adds. Navithana wants to be a neurologist, something she aspired for since childhood.
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