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NEET PG tests Radiology mostly through images and integrated cases: a film inside a Surgery question, a choice of scan inside a Medicine one. This guide covers what recent toppers and students used, the 2026 teachers on each platform, the signs analyses flag and how to practise images from final year to a drop year.
Coaching estimates published in 2026 put Radiology at about 5 to 8 questions a paper: PrepLadder's January and February pages said 5–8 and PW's July pattern page 6–8. They rest on candidates' recall, so read them as a range rather than a fixed count. PrepLadder's 650+ guide places Radiology in its medium-priority group with Paediatrics and Microbiology, a step above the other short subjects.
Its reach is wider than its own count. Careers360's write-up of Marrow's 2025 analysis says of Radiology: “It was integrated questions with other subjects”. Medical Dialogues also reported radiology woven across subjects that year. PrepLadder notes that CT-versus-MRI choices turn up in both Radiology and Medicine, and its 2024 image-question guide puts Radiology among the subjects with the most image-based questions.
The number of pictures swings from year to year. Estimates of the image share of the 2025 paper ran from under a fifth (DBMCI) to over half (PrepLadder), while PrepLadder's survey of the 2026 paper put image-based content at about 10.5%. PrepLadder also expects many stems to describe a visual finding in words, so the signs matter even when no image is shown.
Radiology starts in the dissection hall. PrepLadder's anatomy image questions include X-rays, ultrasound and MRI sections, and its 2026 list flags cross-sectional anatomy as used in radiology. Each time you finish a region, look at its normal X-ray and CT. In 3rd-year clinical postings, ask to see the scans of the patients you examine.
Radiodiagnosis is examined in final year, inside Surgery Paper 2. DigiNerve's suggested order is classic images and signs, emergency CT and X-ray findings, best-investigation tables, then PYQs and image MCQs. Learn each sign with the Surgery, Paediatrics or Medicine chapter it belongs to, and ask to see the films on ward rounds.
PrepLadder's July 2026 image guide asks for at least 15–20 minutes of visual drills every night: scroll through images and name the next management step before checking the answer. That fits even on heavy duty days. If your internship lets you take Radiology as an elective, use it to read films every day.
Oncourse's radiology guide suggests a personal screenshot atlas by body system, ten years of PYQs and speed training from the first day, since spending three or four minutes per image in practice is a common error. Cerebellum's June 2025 strategy for students scoring around 145 correct lists Radiology among the short subjects worth targeting.
Radiology was a BTR-only subject for Dr Sanika Mahar (INI-CET AIR 155), who put her time into revision rather than extra resources. BTR is Dr Zainab Vora's all-subject revision course, and she also teaches Radiology. PrepLadder's teacher, Dr Nikita Nanwani, turns up in the same student's list for a different reason: Dr Mahar used her YouTube videos for Medicine mnemonics.
For teachers, a 2020 student faculty guide named Dr Rajat Jain, Dr Khaleel and Dr Mayur Kulkarni, names that appear on 2026 rosters at DBMCI One, DocTutorials and Marrow. For a book, DigiNerve lists Review of Radiology by Rajat Jain and Virendra Jain among the bestsellers for PG entrance.
Made the Qbank, not the videos, his main source, and finished revising months before the exam so he could focus on GTs.
Told students to go through all of Marrow's radiology modules, calling them close to everything that gets asked.
| Platform | Radiology teacher | Course |
|---|---|---|
| Marrow | Dr Mayur Arun Kulkarni | Edition 8.5 “Clinical Edge” |
| PrepLadder | Dr Nikita Nanwani | Version XI |
| Cerebellum | Dr Rishabh Jain | Mission 4.0 |
| DBMCI One | Dr Rajat Jain | Live ’27 |
| DocTutorials | Dr Khaleel Ahmed | Edition 6 |
| PW MedEd | Dr Natisha Arora | 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.
The pattern in recent topper interviews is one main platform for learning, plus Grand Tests or a revision series from another provider. For Radiology, the piece worth adding is image practice, from image-tagged Qbank questions or your own atlas, rather than a second set of lectures. The platform comparison shows what each course includes.
Radiodiagnosis is part of Surgery Paper 2, so learn the imaging of each surgical condition with the condition itself. DocTutorials advises combining Surgery with anatomy, radiology and pathology, and PrepLadder's surgery guidance is to practise CT abdomen, X-rays and mammograms.
Take every image question in the same order: the patient's history, the area being imaged, the image itself, then the diagnosis. That is PrepLadder's method, and it stops you naming a sign before you know the story. Practise with image-tagged Qbank modules, as the 2026 AIR 1, Dr Monish, did, and look at normal anatomy before abnormal.
| Region or topic | What to know |
|---|---|
| Head | Extradural haematoma (biconvex) versus subdural haematoma (crescent). CT is first-line in brain emergencies. |
| Chest | Tension pneumothorax, silhouette sign, air bronchogram, ground-glass opacity, saddle pulmonary embolus, aortic dissection with an intimal flap. |
| Abdomen and paediatric | Sigmoid volvulus (coffee bean or omega sign), duodenal atresia (double bubble), intussusception (target or doughnut sign), achalasia (bird's beak). |
| Bone | Osteosarcoma with Codman's triangle, and basic bone X-ray reading. |
| Modality choice | Ultrasound versus CT versus MRI for a given scenario; PrepLadder says CT-versus-MRI questions appear frequently. |
| Contrast | Contrast reactions and contraindications. |
| Where to spend time | DigiNerve rates chest, abdominal, neuro and emergency radiology very high, and musculoskeletal and obstetric and gynaecological imaging high. |
| Safe to skip | Interventional procedures, rare imaging artefacts and nuclear-medicine physics, which PrepLadder tells students to skip. |
Compiled from PrepLadder's 2026 must-know images, CT-versus-MRI and study-or-skip pages, and DigiNerve's June 2026 radiology revision guide.
Work through the must-know list region by region (head, chest, abdomen, bone), learning each sign with its condition and the next step.
Head CT bleeds, tension pneumothorax, volvulus, intussusception, dissection and pulmonary embolism. For each, ask which scan comes first and what you do next.
Modality choice, contrast reactions and contraindications, kept in one table you revise often.
Radiology PYQs topic by topic, then timed image-tagged Qbank sets. Every miss goes into your screenshot atlas.
Between blocks and through internship, keep the nightly 15–20-minute image drill going. DigiNerve schedules short subjects for an intern's fourth month, alongside weekly mocks, but Radiology gains from a few films every day long before that.
Coaching estimates from 2026 put it at about 5 to 8: PrepLadder's January and February pages say 5–8 and PW's July pattern page 6–8. Radiology also appears inside Surgery, Medicine and Paediatrics questions, so its reach is wider than its own count.
Dr Sanika Mahar (INI-CET AIR 155) relied on BTR only for Radiology. Dr Ritik Sharma's September 2026 video on using BTR goes through which subjects it covers on its own and which need rapid revision too, so check your weak areas against it. Either way, add image practice and PYQs.
Read the history first, then the area imaged, then the image, as PrepLadder suggests. Do 15–20 minutes of image drills every night, use image-tagged Qbank modules, and keep a screenshot atlas of your misses by body system.
DigiNerve lists Review of Radiology by Rajat Jain and Virendra Jain among the bestsellers for PG entrance. Dr Sanika Mahar managed with BTR alone, and Radiopaedia helps when you need to see more cases of a sign.
Dr Mayur Arun Kulkarni (Marrow), Dr Nikita Nanwani (PrepLadder), Dr Rishabh Jain (Cerebellum), Dr Rajat Jain (DBMCI One), Dr Khaleel Ahmed (DocTutorials) and Dr Natisha Arora (PW MedEd). Choose the course you will finish, then spend your extra time on images.
Look at normal films during Anatomy, learn the signs properly in final year with Surgery, and keep a nightly image drill through internship. For the wider plan, see the final-year guide and the internship guide.
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