Re-NEET UG Result 2026 Out: Know Toppers, Cut-Offs and Your BAMS Admission Roadmap

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

If you have been refreshing neet.nta.nic.in since Thursday, you already have your number. The harder question arrives about ten seconds later. Where do you actually stand, and what do you do about it?

This blog carries the official picture in one place. The toppers, the cut-offs, the category position, and the counselling steps that follow. It also answers the question a great many families will sit with over the next four weeks. If your rank does not reach MBBS, what does a BAMS degree actually offer, and how do you go about securing one?

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

The short version is that this was a high-scoring year after a difficult one. Nearly 11.21 lakh candidates qualified, 19 crossed 700 marks, and 138 reached 690 or above.

The context matters. The original NEET UG 2026 paper was held on 9 May 2026 and cancelled three days later following allegations of a paper leak, a matter the Central Bureau of Investigation is now investigating. The re-examination was conducted on 21 June 2026. The NTA has said the result was declared on schedule so that medical admissions and counselling are not pushed back.

Table 1: Re-NEET UG Result 2026 at a Glance

Particular	Official Figure
Examination	Re-NEET UG 2026 (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, Undergraduate)
Conducting body	National Testing Agency (NTA)
Original exam date	9 May 2026, cancelled on 12 May 2026 after paper leak allegations
Re-examination date	21 June 2026
Result declared	16 July 2026
Candidates qualified	More than 11.21 lakh
Highest score	715 out of 720
Joint All India Rank 1	Aryan Gupta (Punjab) and Panshul Bansal (Haryana)
Highest score in 2025	686 out of 720
Candidates above 700	19
Candidates at 690 and above	138
Candidates at 650 and above	1,492
Candidates at 600 and above	10,160
First-time candidates in the 690-plus band	More than 93 per cent
Women as a share of qualified candidates	More than 58 per cent
Official website	neet.nta.nic.in

Source: NTA result release, 16 July 2026, as reported by Onmanorama and Careers360 on 16 and 17 July 2026.

Who Topped Re-NEET UG 2026?

Aryan Gupta and Panshul Bansal share All India Rank 1 with 715 out of 720. That is 29 marks above last year’s highest score of 686, when an unusually hard paper kept every candidate below the 700 mark.

The highest-ranked female candidate is Kudale Shravani Krishna of Maharashtra at All India Rank 5, an OBC-NCL candidate who outranks every other student in the country bar four. Individual marks were published by the NTA only for the joint AIR 1 holders, so the table below shows the published band of 690 and above for the remaining ranks rather than invented figures.

Re-NEET UG 2026 Top 20 All India Ranks

AIR	Candidate Name	Category	State	Marks
1	Aryan Gupta	General	Punjab	715
1	Panshul Bansal	General	Haryana	715
3	Uplakshya Goyal	General	Rajasthan	690+
4	Ayush Bhalotia	General	Bihar	690+
5	Kudale Shravani Krishna	OBC-NCL	Maharashtra	690+
6	Riya Ranjan	OBC-NCL	Bihar	690+
7	Aryan Dubey	General	Uttar Pradesh	690+
8	Geetansh Sarin	General	Punjab	690+
9	Gaurav Singh	OBC-NCL	Rajasthan	690+
10	Mohanish Maruti Bhosale	General	Maharashtra	690+
11	Abhilash	OBC-NCL	Rajasthan	690+
12	Venkatapathi Velayutham V A	General	Tamil Nadu	690+
13	Veeriahgari Sahyu	General	Telangana	690+
14	Patil Sarthak Mahesh	General	Maharashtra	690+
15	Krish Gupta	General	Punjab	690+
16	Kartik Chaudhary	General	Rajasthan	690+
17	Mansha Garg	General	Haryana	690+
18	Kritik Jain	General	Rajasthan	690+
19	Bura Sai Sharan	OBC-NCL	Telangana	690+
20	Vaishnavi Das	General	Karnataka	690+

Source: NTA official topper list, 16 July 2026. The NTA declared ranks 1 and 2 in its serial order as joint All India Rank 1. The full list of 138 candidates at 690 and above is published at neet.nta.nic.in.

What Is the Re-NEET UG 2026 Qualifying Cut-Off?

The qualifying cut-off for the General and EWS categories is the 50th percentile, which works out to 715 to 213 marks. For OBC, SC and ST it is the 40th percentile, or 212 to 177 marks. Persons with Benchmark Disabilities have separately prescribed criteria.

One point trips up thousands of students every year, so it is worth stating plainly. The qualifying cut-off only decides whether your name enters the merit list. It does not get you a seat. Admission cut-offs are published separately as opening and closing ranks after each counselling round, and they sit far higher. This applies to BAMS exactly as it applies to MBBS.

Category-Wise Qualifying Cut-Off and Qualified Candidates, Re-NEET UG 2026

Category	Qualifying Percentile	Cut-Off Marks 2026	Candidates Qualified
UR and EWS	50th percentile	715 to 213	9,96,935
OBC	40th percentile	212 to 177	81,111
SC	40th percentile	212 to 177	29,947
ST	40th percentile	212 to 177	12,452
PwBD categories	Separately prescribed	Separately prescribed	Published in the NTA cut-off PDF
Total	—	—	More than 11.21 lakh

Source: NTA category-wise cut-off PDF released with the result, as reported by Careers360, 16 and 17 July 2026. The cut-off was prepared on the percentile criteria prescribed by the NMC, the Dental Council regulations and NCISM guidelines for AYUSH admissions.

Why Has the Cut-Off Risen So Sharply?

Because the paper was kinder. The UR and EWS band moved from 686 to 144 in 2025 up to 715 to 213 in 2026. The floor therefore rose by 69 marks in a single year, while the qualifying percentiles themselves did not change at all. The OBC cut-off is now the highest ever recorded for the category.

The practical consequence is simple. Your marks mean less this year than your rank does. Anyone measuring their score against a senior’s 2025 benchmark is using the wrong yardstick, and the same inflation will feed through into admission cut-offs during counselling.

What Should You Do After the Re-NEET UG Result 2026?

You have the scorecard. From here, the result turns into a set of deadlines, and missing one of them costs a year. Here is the sequence, without padding.

1. Download and check your scorecard. Log in at neet.nta.nic.in with your application number and date of birth. Check the name spelling, category, PwBD status and 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 this point. Marks are only the input.
3. Decide your realistic list. Government MBBS, private MBBS, BDS, BAMS, BHMS, BSc Nursing. Be honest at this stage. The students who refuse to look at BAMS in July are the ones scrambling in September.
4. Register for the right counselling. Medical and dental seats run through the Medical Counselling Committee and the state authorities. AYUSH seats do not. They run through a separate body, explained in the next section.
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. Keep your documents in one folder. Scorecard, admit card, Class 10 certificate for date of birth, Class 12 marksheet and certificate, category certificate, PwBD certificate where applicable, domicile certificate, photo identity proof and at least eight passport photographs.
7. Report before the deadline. Late reporting means the seat passes to the next candidate on the list. Each round carries its own forfeiture rules.

Who Conducts BAMS Counselling, and How Is It Different?

This is the part most result-day articles skip, and it is the part that costs BAMS aspirants their seats. BAMS admission does not run through the Medical Counselling Committee. It runs through the Ayush Admissions Central Counselling Committee, or AACCC, under the Ministry of Ayush, for the 15 per cent All India Quota, and through the state AYUSH authority for everything else.

For a private college in Uttar Pradesh such as Divya Jyoti Ayurvedic Medical College & Hospital, that distinction has a very concrete consequence. Every one of its BAMS seats is filled through the Uttar Pradesh AYUSH counselling conducted by the Department of AYUSH, Uttar Pradesh, and not through AACCC.

BAMS Counselling 2026: All India Quota Compared with State Quota

Point of Comparison	15% All India Quota	State Quota (Uttar Pradesh)
Conducting authority	Ayush Admissions Central Counselling Committee (AACCC), Ministry of Ayush	Department of AYUSH, Uttar Pradesh
Website	aaccc.gov.in	upayushcounseling.upsdc.gov.in [VERIFY]
Seats covered	15 per cent of BAMS seats in government and government-aided AYUSH colleges, plus 100 per cent of seats in deemed universities, central universities and national institutes	85 per cent of seats in government AYUSH colleges and 100 per cent of seats in private AYUSH colleges in the state
Entrance accepted	NEET UG 2026	NEET UG 2026
Domicile requirement	None. Open to all qualified candidates	UP domicile rules apply to the state quota. Candidates from other states may apply for private college seats [VERIFY]
Where DJ Ayurvedic sits	Not applicable. Private college seats fall outside AACCC	All 100 BAMS seats are filled here
Should you register?	Yes, if you want a government, deemed or national institute seat	Yes, if you want a BAMS seat in Uttar Pradesh

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

It is common to hear a student say they will drop a year rather than take anything other than MBBS. Sometimes that is the right call. Often it is not, and the decision gets made inside 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. Everybody else chooses between private MBBS, BDS, BAMS, BHMS, nursing, allied health, or another attempt. A second attempt costs a year and carries no guarantee, because the cut-off moved 69 marks in twelve months and nobody predicted that either.

The honest comparison looks like this.

MBBS, BAMS, BDS and BSc Nursing Compared

Point of Comparison	MBBS	BAMS	BDS	BSc Nursing
Academic length	4.5 years	4.5 years	4 years	4 years
Compulsory internship	1 year	1 year	1 year	Included
Total to practice	5.5 years	5.5 years	5 years	4 years
Entrance	NEET UG	NEET UG	NEET UG	NEET UG
Regulator	NMC	NCISM	Dental Council of India	Indian Nursing Council
All India Quota counselling	MCC	AACCC	MCC	Varies by state
Postgraduate route	NEET PG	AIAPGET, leading to MD or MS in Ayurveda	NEET MDS	MSc Nursing
Independent practice after the UG degree	A PG seat is usually needed to build a practice	Yes, as a registered Ayurvedic physician	Yes	No

 

Read the last row again, because it is the row that reshapes the maths for a lot of families. A BAMS graduate who has completed the compulsory rotatory internship and registered with the state board can consult independently. An MBBS graduate without a PG seat, in most cases, cannot build a practice on the same footing. Add to that a Ministry of Ayush that has spent a decade expanding the sector, an insurance and wellness market that now hires Ayurvedic physicians in numbers, and a PG route through AIAPGET that is considerably less brutal than NEET PG, and the case for BAMS stops looking like a consolation prize.

Why Choose Divya Jyoti Ayurvedic Medical College & Hospital?

If BAMS is now on your list, the next job is picking a college that will genuinely teach you to treat patients. That sounds obvious. It is not always what happens.

Ask any practising vaidya what separated the confident graduates in their batch from the nervous ones, and they will not talk about lecture hours. They will talk about how many case histories they took, how many Panchakarma procedures they watched from arm’s length rather than from a projector, and whether the attached hospital had real patients in it. Patient volume is the single thing worth checking, and almost nobody checks it.

This is where Divya Jyoti is worth a look. Its hospital opened in 2012. The college followed in 2017. The order matters more than it sounds: the teaching hospital was not assembled to satisfy a college inspection, because it had already been running for five years by the time the first BAMS batch walked in. The OPD today handles a reported 200-plus patients a day across 14 departments, with more than 45 doctors and a Panchakarma unit running ten therapy rooms.

The campus sits on Niwari Road in Modinagar, within Ghaziabad district and inside Delhi NCR, so patient variety is not a problem and neither is access to institutions such as the All India Institute of Ayurveda in Delhi, where students have been taken on academic visits. The degree is awarded by Mahayogi Guru Gorakhnath AYUSH University, Gorakhpur, the state AYUSH university that affiliates Uttar Pradesh’s Ayurveda colleges, and the college is regulated by NCISM.

Divya Jyoti Ayurvedic Medical College & Hospital at a Glance

Particular	Detail
Full name	Divya Jyoti Ayurvedic Medical College & Hospital
Hospital established	2012
College established	2017
Location	Niwari Road, Modinagar, District Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh 201204 (Delhi NCR)
Programme offered	BAMS, 5.5 years (4.5 years academic plus 1 year compulsory rotatory internship)
BAMS intake	100 seats
Regulator	National Commission for Indian System of Medicine (NCISM)
Affiliating university	Mahayogi Guru Gorakhnath AYUSH University, Gorakhpur
Entrance required	NEET UG
Admission route	Uttar Pradesh AYUSH counselling, Department of AYUSH, Uttar Pradesh
Departments	14 departments across Ayurveda and allied sciences
Attached hospital	Teaching hospital with OPD, IPD, Panchakarma and diagnostic services
Daily OPD footfall	More than 200 patients [VERIFY]
Hospital doctors	More than 45
Faculty	More than 110
Graduates to date	More than 500
Specialist clinics	More than 10
Panchakarma unit	More than 10 therapy rooms with 8 certified therapists
Community outreach	More than 10 camps annually, more than 5,000 people served
Recognition claimed by the college	Ranked the No. 1 choice in AYUSH counselling in Uttar Pradesh in 2023 and again in 2024 [VERIFY]
Website	djayurvedacollege.com

What the Numbers Mean for Your Five and a Half Years

• A hospital that predates the college. Five years of patient records, referral patterns and staff continuity existed before the first lecture was delivered.
• Chair time, not screen time. A live OPD with a reported 200-plus daily footfall across 14 departments means clinical postings with patients actually in the room.
• A working Panchakarma unit. Ten therapy rooms and eight certified therapists. Panchakarma is a procedural skill, and procedural skills are learned by repetition.
• A state AYUSH university degree. The same affiliating university and the same examinations as Uttar Pradesh’s other Ayurveda colleges.
• NCR location. Modinagar sits inside Delhi NCR, which matters for patient variety, for guest faculty and for where you go afterwards.
• Community exposure from year one. More than 10 outreach camps a year, from Swarnaprashan and Nadi Pariksha workshops to free eye screening drives.

BAMS admissions for 2026-27 are open. Seats are limited to an intake of 100. To speak to the admissions desk, visit djayurvedacollege.com or call +91 93685 64763

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

How many candidates qualified in Re-NEET UG 2026?

More than 11.21 lakh candidates qualified. 19 scored above 700 marks, 138 scored 690 or above, 1,492 scored at least 650, and 10,160 scored 600 or above.

Why was a re-examination held?

The original NEET UG 2026 paper was held on 9 May 2026 and cancelled three days later following allegations of a paper leak. The Central Bureau of Investigation is investigating. The re-examination was conducted 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 715 to 213 marks. For OBC, SC and ST it is the 40th percentile, or 212 to 177 marks.

Why has the NEET cut-off risen so much this year?

The UR and EWS band moved from 686 to 144 in 2025 up to 715 to 213 in 2026, a rise of 69 marks at the floor. The qualifying percentiles did not change. The shift reflects a higher-scoring candidate pool on an easier paper.

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

Yes. The same NEET UG scorecard is used for BAMS admission. You must have qualified at the percentile prescribed for your category and meet the Class 12 requirement of Physics, Chemistry and Biology.

Is BAMS worth taking if I do not get MBBS?

That depends on what you want from the degree, and it is a decision worth taking with a clear head rather than in a week of disappointment. The point in BAMS’s favour is that a graduate who has completed the compulsory rotatory internship and registered with the state board can consult independently, whereas an MBBS graduate without a postgraduate seat usually cannot build a practice on the same footing.

How long is the BAMS course at Divya Jyoti Ayurvedic Medical College & Hospital?

The BAMS programme runs for 5.5 years: 4.5 years of academic study followed by a one-year compulsory rotatory internship at the attached teaching hospital.

How many BAMS seats does the college have?

The sanctioned BAMS intake is 100 seats, as disclosed in the college’s NCISM intake capacity declaration.

Is Divya Jyoti Ayurvedic Medical College & Hospital recognised?

The college is regulated by the National Commission for Indian System of Medicine (NCISM) and is affiliated to Mahayogi Guru Gorakhnath AYUSH University, Gorakhpur. Its NCISM permission and university recognition documents are published in the NCISM disclosure section of the college website.