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Guides for every stage from 1st year MBBS to a drop year, and for all 19 subjects. Each one gathers what recent toppers and students say they actually used: which teacher, which notes, which Qbank, and how they fitted it around college, postings and duties.
NEET PG preparation looks different in 1st year than it does in internship. A 1st-year student needs strong basics and a clean university result; an intern needs a plan that survives 12-hour duties. Start with the guide for your stage, then open the subject guides it links to.
| Item | What applied in 2026 |
|---|---|
| Conducted by | NBEMS, as a single computer-based test in English |
| NEET PG 2026 date | 30 August 2026, in one shift (9:00 am to 12:30 pm) |
| Paper | 180 multiple-choice questions for 720 marks |
| Sections | Five sections of 36 questions with 42 minutes each, 3 h 30 min in all. A section closes when its time ends, and mark-for-review works only within that section |
| Marking | +4 for a correct answer, −1 for a wrong one, 0 for a question left blank |
| Result | Declared on 24 September 2026. The qualifying score was 262 of 720 for General/EWS (50th percentile), 244 for General-PwBD and 226 for SC/ST/OBC |
| Counselling | The MCC counsels the 50% All India Quota seats; states counsel their own quota |
| INI-CET | Held by AIIMS New Delhi twice a year for AIIMS, JIPMER, PGIMER, NIMHANS and SCTIMST seats; the next exam is on 1 November 2026 |
| NExT | Deferred by NMC in July 2023; NEET PG continues as the entrance exam for MD, MS and PG Diploma seats |
For comparison, NEET PG 2025 (3 August 2025) had 200 questions for 800 marks, and the time-bound sections began with NEET PG 2024.
Recent papers from 2024 to 2026 have leaned heavily on clinical vignettes and applied concepts, with very few one-line recall questions. The subject-wise question counts you will see on every coaching website are estimates built from what candidates remember of the paper, so each subject guide here gives a range from named 2026 analyses rather than a single number.
The NEET PG syllabus is the MBBS curriculum itself, usually counted as 19 subjects. That is why the order in which MBBS teaches them is a sensible order to prepare them in, and why the stage guides above follow the professional years.
Each subject guide covers how many questions 2026 analyses expect, how to handle the subject in each MBBS phase, the teachers students and toppers name, a side-by-side table of who teaches it on six platforms in 2026, notes and Qbank use, high-yield topics, common mistakes and a short plan. The ranges below are recall-based 2026 estimates, and each guide names its sources.
In September 2026 a NEET PG aspirant who posts as DrG went through 27 topper interviews, from AIR 1 down to rank 8,627 across NEET PG and INI-CET, and counted what each topper talked about. He says he used AI to pull out the points before counting them. Repeated revision and daily questions came up in almost every interview; sticking to a single source came up in only five.
How many of 27 topper interviews mention each habit (DrG, YouTube, 24 Sep 2026)
The individual interviews fill in the detail. Dr Monish Kanna R, AIR 1 in NEET PG 2026 with 641 of 720, had finished three to four revisions by March and sat a Grand Test every 7 to 10 days from February, analysing it the same afternoon. Dr Pallakshi, AIR 2 in 2026, counts seven to eight revisions in all while working as a medical officer. Dr Saikumar, AIR 3 in 2024, sat a Marrow Grand Test every two weeks through internship, about 22 in total, and read a 25–30-page notebook of high-yield points before the exam.
Start dates vary more than the habits do. INI-CET AIR 1 Dr Heet Manvar advises keeping 1st year for the university exam and starting in 2nd year; Dr Sonali (AIR 6, 2024) began in 2nd year, Dr Ravi Bansal (AIR 5, 2024) in 3rd year, and Dr Kajal Pathak (AIR 3, 2026) prepared during internship. The topper strategies guide sets out each rank holder's resources, revisions and Grand Test routine.
These are the names that come up again and again in topper interviews, students' "resources I used" videos and the 3,277 comments we read under NEET PG strategy videos between October 2025 and October 2026. The counts are small, so read them as a direction rather than a verdict. Each subject guide also lists who teaches that subject on Marrow, PrepLadder, Cerebellum, DBMCI One, DocTutorials and PW MedEd in 2026.
| Subject | Name students mention | Who mentions it |
|---|---|---|
| Anatomy | Dr Ashwani Kumar | INI-CET AIR 3 Dr Vedant Karaddi (May 2024); Dr Sanika Mahar's 2026 list (INI-CET AIR 155); four comments |
| Pathology and Microbiology | Dr Preeti Sharma | NEET PG 2025 rank holders Dr Sahed (AIR 13) and Dr Sakshi (AIR 21); the Pathology name linked most often in comments |
| Pharmacology | Dr Gobind Rai Garg (GRG) and Dr Ankit Kumar | INI-CET toppers Dr Netresh Sharma and Dr Shashwat for GRG's review book and notes; Dr Nishid (AIR 11, 2025) and Dr Sakshi for Dr Ankit Kumar |
| Medicine | Dr Deepak Marwah | Dr Nishid (AIR 11, 2025); Dr Sanika Mahar's list; six comments, the most for any Medicine teacher |
| Surgery | Dr Pritesh Singh and Dr Jai Arora | Dr Sanika Mahar used Dr Pritesh Singh's test-and-discussion sessions; a DBMCI student praised Dr Jai Arora's flowcharts for next-step questions |
| OBG | Dr Deepti Bahl | Dr Sanika Mahar used her test-and-discussion sessions alongside rapid revision |
| All subjects (revision) | BTR / CoreBTR, Dr Zainab Vora | INI-CET AIR 1 Dr Sairam (Nov 2025) and several NEET PG 2025 rank holders; the resource mentioned most in comment threads |
Comment counts come from 40 NEET PG videos chosen for this research, several of them about BTR and rapid revision, so they show what students talk about, not market share.
Most toppers did not stay inside one company's catalogue. A much-liked comment under the 2026 AIR 1's interview joked that every platform was claiming the same topper, and several rank holders do appear on more than one platform's page. The platform comparison brings together what students say about each course, its Qbank and its Grand Tests.
Dr Kavya, who went from a NEET PG rank of about 9,000 to INI-CET rank 9, put it plainly: “Don't run behind 100 sources.” The 2026 AIR 1 kept the same notes through a score plateau and revised them more instead.
Dr Monish solved his Qbank first as a learning tool, copying every mistake and new fact into his notes, and only later set score targets for each module. Several toppers solved a topic's questions on the same day they watched its video.
INI-CET AIR 2 Dr Shashwat warns against leaving PYQs late, and Dr Netresh Sharma (INI-CET AIR 1) worked through seven to eight years of them alongside timed 50-question sets every day.
Dr Vaibhav Garg (AIR 1, 2024) began at the start of final year; Dr Saikumar took one every fortnight in internship. The analysis afterwards matters as much as the score: Dr Monish went through wrong answers first, then the ones he had marked, then the whole paper, on the same afternoon.
Short notebooks kept the last month manageable: Dr Saikumar's 25–30 pages, Dr Ravi Bansal's small notebook revised at least three times, Dr Monish's mistake notebook.
Dr Monish burned out at about ten hours a day before INI-CET and came back at seven to eight. Dr Pallakshi reminds students they do not need twelve-hour days from the start.
Students reviewing coaching apps are specific about what goes wrong with printed notes: every subject bound into one heavy book that falls apart, fonts too small to revise from, tables and pictures that print unclearly, and no room to write. Their complaints about digital notes point the same way: apps that will not let them highlight, small phone screens and endless scrolling through PDFs.
Toppers started at different points. INI-CET AIR 1 Dr Heet Manvar advises putting the university exam first in 1st year and starting in 2nd year; Dr Sonali (AIR 6, 2024) began in 2nd year, Dr Ravi Bansal (AIR 5, 2024) in 3rd year, Dr Vaibhav Garg (AIR 1, 2024) finished his videos in final year, and Dr Kajal Pathak (AIR 3, 2026) prepared during internship. Start with the guide for your stage.
NEET PG 2026 had 180 multiple-choice questions for 720 marks, in five sections of 36 questions with 42 minutes each. Marking was +4 for a correct answer and −1 for a wrong one. NEET PG 2025 had 200 questions for 800 marks.
Recall-based 2026 estimates put Medicine at about 21–30 questions, Surgery at about 18–25, OBG at about 14–18, Pathology at 11–18 and Pharmacology at 11–16. PW counted around 20 Community Medicine questions in the 30 August 2026 paper. Each subject guide lists its sources.
Toppers from 2024 to 2026 cleared the exam with Marrow, PrepLadder, Cerebellum, DBMCI, DAMS and DocTutorials, and many used more than one. The advice that comes up most often is to revise your main source several times. The platform comparison collects what students say about each.
In DrG's count of 27 topper interviews, 26 mention revision cycles and 23 mention Grand Tests. The 2026 AIR 1 had done three to four revisions by March and took a Grand Test every 7–10 days from February; the 2026 AIR 2 counts seven to eight revisions in all; the 2024 AIR 3 took about 22 Grand Tests, one a fortnight, during internship.
Yes, and many rank holders did. Dr Vaibhav Garg studied between 10–12-hour duties, Dr Sahed (AIR 13, 2025) fitted rapid revision and the Qbank around duties as long as 18 hours, and Dr Kajal Pathak (AIR 3, 2026) prepared during her internship. See the internship guide.
From what students and toppers say, not from us. We compiled 2024–26 topper interviews published by news sites and coaching platforms, students' resource videos and the comments under them, student blogs, app reviews and 2025–26 exam analyses, and every page lists its sources. We are a print shop: we print the notes you send us.
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Order on WhatsAppExam notices and analyses, topper interviews, student resource videos and comments, and app reviews, read in September and October 2026. Each subject and stage guide lists its own sources.