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ENT gives only a handful of NEET PG questions, but they tend to be clinical, often built around an image, and quick marks for anyone who revised. This page sets out what toppers and students used for ENT, the topics recent lists keep naming, and how to fit it into 3rd year, final year, internship or a drop year.
For the 180-question paper, 2026 estimates for ENT are small and overlap: 7–9 questions in Careers360's August analysis and 4–7 in ReflexPrep's. They are recall-based estimates, so read them together as a range of roughly 4–9. PrepLadder counts ENT among the short subjects, which together with Ophthalmology, Forensic Medicine and the rest come to roughly 40–50 questions.
The style matters more than the count. In Marrow's look back at the 2025 paper, published by Careers360, ENT was summed up as “Clinical based questions with images. Not very difficult.” PrepLadder's ENT guide says image questions come up often enough that they should be learnt together with the theory. And as across the whole paper, recent ENT questions lean towards clinical scenarios rather than one-line facts.
Read Dhingra's Diseases of Ear, Nose and Throat for the university exam, with Zakir Hussain's ENT for quick revision, the pairing Medioks lists for 2026. Watch one platform's ENT lectures during the posting and match each diagram to the eardrums, noses and throats you examine. Cerebellum's third-year guide reports students saying “ENT diagrams don't make sense”; its fix is fewer, consolidated sources.
Final-year subjects take over the timetable, but a short daily slot keeps ENT alive: a few Qbank questions, one page of images or one table of tuning-fork results. Include ENT in the Grand Tests you start this year, and let the questions you miss tell you which chapter to reopen.
PrepLadder's long-standing advice to interns is to read the subject of the department you are posted in, and DigiNerve's five-month intern plan leaves the short subjects for month four, alongside weekly mock tests. Ward and OPD work count as preparation too: Dr Ravi Bansal (AIR 5, NEET PG 2024) said hands-on training helped him solve questions quickly.
PrepLadder's 90-day timetable gives ENT 4 days, and Marrow's older 12-week plan gave it 2. Oncourse's longer approach spends two to three weeks on high-yield topics only, with the weight on visual recognition and basic management. However long the first pass, finish it with ENT previous-year questions, then drop to a few minutes a day.
In two source lists students shared in 2025–26, ENT was covered with rapid revision rather than full lectures. Dr Sanika Mahar (INI-CET AIR 155) used Marrow's ENT rapid-revision videos, especially the Larynx and Pharynx sections, together with BTR, the revision programme run by Dr Zainab Vora. A commenter who shared a full Marrow-based source list under INI-CET AIR 87 Dr Sukriti Kaushik's resources video also took ENT from rapid revision, while keeping main videos for subjects such as Pharmacology and Ophthalmology.
An older guide points to the teacher Marrow still uses. A 2020 student guide to choosing faculty recommended Dr Manisha Budhiraja (Marrow) for ENT, and Dr Manisha Sinha Budhiraja teaches Marrow's 2026 course. Careers360's 2026 book list names ENT for the Entrance Exam by Manisha Sinha and Sachin Budhiraja as its ENT review book.
| Platform | ENT teacher | Course |
|---|---|---|
| Marrow | Dr Manisha Sinha Budhiraja | Edition 8.5 “Clinical Edge” |
| PrepLadder | Dr Vyshnavi Bommakanti | Version XI |
| Cerebellum | Dr Praneeth Kumar | Mission 4.0 |
| DBMCI One | Dr Sanjay Agarwal | Live ’27 |
| DocTutorials | Dr Rajiv Dhawan | Edition 6 |
| PW MedEd | Dr Sanchit Bajpai | One Plan |
Rosters as listed on each platform's own 2026 course pages (read 2 Oct 2026). Teachers do change between editions, so check the course page before you buy.
Because ENT is short, it is easy to take one platform's ENT revision videos while your Qbank sits elsewhere. What matters is settling on a single ENT source and revising it twice: Dr Soumyaditya (INI-CET AIR 2) ran two revision cycles for short subjects against three for the major ones. The platform comparison lists each course.
PrepLadder's 18-question ENT image set shows the range to expect: clinical photographs, otoscopy and endoscopy of the eardrum and nasal cavity, middle-ear and auditory-pathway diagrams, barium swallow and CECT, pure-tone audiograms, histopathology and laryngoscopy. Practise each type, and with audiograms, name the loss before you read the options. The 2026 AIR 1, Dr Monish, built Qbank modules tagged image-based; for ENT, that is the set to repeat.
Compiled from PrepLadder's 2024–26 ENT study, flashcard, important-question and most-expected lists, plus ReflexPrep's 2026 list. PrepLadder's August 2026 roundup of the most-repeated PYQ areas names hearing loss, otitis media, vertigo and epistaxis.
Anatomy, physiology of hearing and balance, tuning-fork tests and audiograms, otitis media and cholesteatoma with their complications.
Otosclerosis, Ménière's disease, vertigo and BPPV, the facial nerve and acoustic neuroma; then epistaxis, polyps, sinusitis and DNS.
Tonsils, angiofibroma, deep neck spaces, vocal cord palsy, stridor, laryngeal cancer staging and tracheostomy.
One sitting for otoscopy, endoscopy, audiograms and scans, then ENT previous-year questions topic by topic. Copy every miss into your notes.
After the first pass, Careers360's 20–30 minutes a day is enough upkeep: a short Qbank set on alternate days, your tuning-fork table once a week and the image pages before each Grand Test.
2026 estimates put ENT at about 4–9 of the 180 questions: 7–9 (Careers360) and 4–7 (ReflexPrep), both from August 2026. They are recall-based. Marrow found the 2025 ENT questions clinical, image-based and not very difficult.
In 3rd year, when you are studying ENT for the university exam anyway, main lectures alongside Dhingra fit naturally. For later revision, two 2025–26 source lists both used rapid revision: Dr Sanika Mahar used Marrow's ENT rapid revision with BTR, and a Marrow user listed ENT under rapid revision while keeping main videos for subjects such as Pharmacology and Ophthalmology.
Dhingra for the 3rd-year university exam, with Zakir Hussain for quick revision. For NEET PG, Careers360's 2026 list names ENT for the Entrance Exam by Manisha Sinha and Sachin Budhiraja, and CollegeDekho's 2025 list suggests Manisha Budhiraja, Ruchi Rai or Dhingra.
Dr Manisha Sinha Budhiraja (Marrow), Dr Vyshnavi Bommakanti (PrepLadder), Dr Praneeth Kumar (Cerebellum), Dr Sanjay Agarwal (DBMCI One), Dr Rajiv Dhawan (DocTutorials) and Dr Sanchit Bajpai (PW MedEd). Choose the one you will finish, then revise it.
Work through each image type PrepLadder lists, from otoscopy and endoscopy to audiograms, CECT and laryngoscopy, and study them with the theory rather than after it. Repeat a Qbank module tagged image-based before Grand Tests.
Yes for the pictures: otoscopy, endoscopy and laryngoscopy pages print best in colour, while text pages are fine in black and white. ENT is thin, so it can share a bound volume with Ophthalmology as long as the images stay large. Share the PDF on WhatsApp to get a quote.
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Order on WhatsAppStudent and topper source lists, coaching-platform ENT guides and 2025–26 paper analyses, read in October 2026.