neet journey

Hi everyone! So this is my first post on Quora. I really wanted to share my NEET journey to first of all record it on Quora for myself and I feel really inspired by the journey and answers people share over here. So here is mine.

So, NEET 2025 was my first drop and second attempt. In my previous attempt of NEET 2024, I scored 459 out of 720 along with Class 12. And this year, I am expecting ____ according to NTA's Answer key.

And I am just waiting Now for the results to be announced. Personally, I just wanted to write my first answer straight after giving my exam. I really wanted to write something on Quora and even document my journey of me drop here from the very beginning of 2024. But somewhere I felt what if Quora turns out to be my distraction. So, wanted to really make this year as my final attempt. I took a step back and thought to just focus on studying and even uninstalled Quora for a very long time. But still I remember of sneaking into the application to see how other aspirants who are very very brilliant, how they are doing things. Well, I will be sharing my journey of how things went for me. Especially for few parts which I really want to share. But right now it's all about giving you a brief introduction of how my journey went in class 11th, 12th and drop year. I am not very sure of what rank I might get this year or what I am going to do next. So, but here is a short summary of how my these 3 years of life went.

Even if I fail, I feel I worked wholeheartedly enough to share my part of the story.

1. The Beginning of NEET Aspirant Phase

I secured 94% in my class 10th with a very exceptionally low score in mathematics.(80/100) I'm sharing this because I feel it has a very significant role of what subjects I chose and what was my fate for the next three years, 11th, 12th, and the drop year.

My dad, he wanted me to take PCMB, but with the excuse of score, I managed to escape mathematics, but somehow wasn't able to escape science, and it entered in my life with biology.

And somewhere also within my heart, I had all the excitement for having some academic adventure where I'm actually studying something which I feel is worthwhile. You know, I had a huge respect for people who actually go and clear these NEET and JEE exams. And somewhere in my heart, I just felt maybe I could do it too. So that's what made me enter this, people call it rat race, but I think even if I cleared it or not, it has been a very important phase of my life, I would consider.

2. Noob/Unguided Preparation Phase

One important thing to share with you is, in my class 11th and 12th, I took a sort of dummy school. It was not a dummy school. I was a regular student, but I used to just go and give exams. I had given my half-elves of class 11th and everything. So basically, it was not like a proper dummy school where I had to just go and give board exams. It was a regular school where I was allowed to sit at home and study with my online batch, which was Arjuna 1.0, which I took back then as an 11th grader. And a similar thing happened for class 12th, where I took Lakshya online batch for 2024.

So, fact to mention is that I didn't went either to a offline coaching nor to a offline school. All the studying I was doing was online. Which right now looking back I feel was a very serious mistake that I committed. 11th and 12th are very different from 9th and 10th in almost every terms. Another key point to share is that the place where I come from has no offline coaching centres, even local. There is nothing like that. Either I had to go to Kota or to my nearest city, which is Bareilly. (which I went in my drop year.)

Even though I was pretty consistent with taking lectures, I almost took like 60-70% of all the lectures properly with their notes and rest of them a bit haphazardly because there was no one supervising on me. Even my dad, he doesn't ask of, you know, how much marks I'm scoring in my tests and stuff, especially in class 11th, 10th, and 12th. I don't know my Papa never used to check me on what I'm studying or not. If I am giving tests or not. Sometimes he might flip my notes and I was pretty good with making notes. Probably that was the only thing I used to do. Well, coming straight to the point, I missed a lot of tests. I used to give my initially scheduled tests, that too without division and everything, and my score used to be around, 500s I even remember scoring 580. And that was the moment I thought, oh, the paper was so easy, I didn't even revise or anything, and still I got that much score. If I study, I'll even get more and more.🙃

And then things were too late before I realised what I have had done to me.

It was just one month to the exam when Physicswala conducted its real test and that was my first mock test for the NEET exam in which I scored (260/720) and in that last month all I was thinking was to just revise as much as I can. I heard other people say that in last month if you really study hard you can improve your score by max to max 100 marks so still I was hoping if paper comes in my favour I would do it all (I'm delulu)

As I was revising more and more I was realising how much I have actually forgotten ( imagine I had not even flipped my notes a second time after once I made them in class 11th)

So my condition was actually very pathetic still I was not ready to give up, I was just studying, thinking, who knows what might happen on that day and I ended up with a score of 459 out of 720 which really has a significant role that I'll later tell in this post.

But for now imagine if I wouldn't have given that one single mock paper a month before my score on the NEET day would have been even lower than that and who knows it might have been in 200 or 300.

3. Joining Offline PW Vidhyapeeth

Well, it was very clear for me that year that I had to take a drop because I hadn't studied and my scope for improvement was huge.

Well, how I ended up choosing Physicswala Vidyapeeth Bareilly is an interesting story on its own. It was, first of all, not my decision. It just happened by chance. And I got admission there in a dropper batch for the Phase 4.

I was so excited for my journey because it was after four long years that I have been actually to a physical coaching centre where I used to see other students also studying along with me. A huge refreshment for four years of sitting at home and studying online all by myself.

I was so enthusiastic and thankful to God for things working in my favor that I ended up scoring 680 out of 720 in my first mock paper, which how I got is another very surprising story. But this paper result ended up getting me into the topmost batch of the Vidyapeeth, which was the Rankers batch.

Yes, this was a batch for students who had scored already a decent score in 2024. Most of the students had a score ranging from 580 to even 635 or 640. So it was a total blessing moment for me to be able to sit in the same classroom and study in the top students even with a low score. (I feel if it would have been in200/300s, our Centre head Sir would have never recommended me for that batch, but considering my initial tests mock scores and Board Result %age, he did 😚)

In the batch, I used to consistently top from last.

(not last, 3rd Last 😎)

Mera bhai mujhse kehta tha ki tum Hiro 💎 me sona 🪙 ho

Well, I used to score, on an average 600+. Yes, that was my score, like from 600 to 630. Sometimes I did escalate my score to 660+, in few partwise mock papers. It also dropped in 500s few times.

Whereas my batchmates used to have a consistent decent 650+ score most of the times.

I did top a few times with highest Centre Rank 6 in my Last AITS Full Syllabus a week before NEET ☺️(Blessed)

To finally having a breakdown in actual NEET 25 🤡 🫠

Anyway, coming back to the preparation, things were really amazing. In my first mock paper, I remember scoring something in 550s. Still I was very motivated. When the actual breakpoint came, where I was consistently working hard and wasn't even improving, my score barely used to touch 600+, and it was already end of March.

But during this phase of scoring low, one of my teacher at Vidyapeeth suggested me, after hearing out my problem, that you should start giving mock papers of either Akash or Allen and to not calculate the score of it, but to practice the variety of QUESTIONS which are highly relevant towards the NEET exams. After listening to a lot of toppers appreciating the relevancy of CSTs and the matching of the paper style, I ended up choosing the Intensive CSTs of 2024 paper by Akash.

Well, right now looking back, I feel I didn't give a single paper in this DOP year which I would call as relevant for my NEET exam. I heard people saying that LN papers are too much high level and they are not relevant for actual NEET, but the situation seems upside down right now.

I remember people claiming on YT that their actual NEET score was way better than what they used to in the mock papers, and here my case is entirely opposite when I'm scoring the lowest score on my actual NEET day.

4. Conclusion

Well, I think it's quite normal to feel that feeling of being betrayed, where all your hard work, all those good feelings, and everything turns out to be like a poison, where even just thinking about what has happened makes me feel like I'm worthless, and all those feelings of dumbness and stupidity, it's a misery. Bcoz of that shitty Performance of one Day.

It's now almost a month since this all-new drama has happened, and slowly and steadily I'm just getting out of this tiny bubble of this competitive rat race. Now I know why it's called a rat race. Maybe you're not able to think about something out of that very wheel where you are being fixed into. I'm not sure what I'm saying. But right now I think I'm in a state where I can actually see the progress which I've actually made, and I think it just fills my heart with gratitude rather than being just a shitty piece of worthless flesh on this planet.

Indulging into making art and content, something which I genuinely enjoy, really helped me open up the perspective. And here are some things which I really want to thank myself to have been gone through and improved a long way.

First

From being a student who used to procrastinate giving tests out of the fear, to being able to give 100+ tests in my drop year, (50+ full syllabus)

I think it's a huge personal win for me.

Second

It's a silent confession that I have to make to myself that even though I scored 94.6% in my 12th UP board exam with the 3rd rank in district, I still lacked a lot of conceptual understanding and even the right study techniques and grit which I should apply. And that is something which I learned while studying with the the best students of my coaching. Their grit and devotion to what they wanted inspired me to put more and more efforts.

It's definitely alot that has happened to be in these past 3 yrs of my life but here is a good short intro straight from my heart into words.

5. My future Plans

Well, looking at my actual NEET score, I think my chances of getting an MBBS this year is actually negligible. My parents are very supportive for me of taking a partial drop for the NEET exam.

Though I do not hold myself from giving on to the right efforts which I need to for a better performance in the NEET exam next year, I do fear the uncertainty of this exam where one year the paper is extremely easy, though I was not able to perform, people struggled with a good score, and right now, this year, the paper was so difficult.

That the year of practice where I held a grip on attempting strategy of how to solve those easy questions and minimizing the silly mistakes has all got into the waste. If not all into the waste, still I wasn't able to give my best performance on the NEET day inspite of having all that momentum and support of teachers.

So, I think the only options left for me are to either take a Good BAMS college if Rank Allows and to prepare for NEET side by side or to take a private BSc admission.

Though I have seen a lot of reviews of people saying that BAMS is a total waste where people don't actually enjoy studying Sanskrit or Hindi. I personally loved those subjects even as a school going student so I think that doesn't interfere with my academic lust but still let's see how things go because even for BAMS you need a rank so it's also a gift. Let's see how things unfold. I am not very sure but once the results are out I'll discuss things with my parents and see how my intuition flows because at the end of the day I just want to feel good about my life.

Well right now I am making some art and Sharing out of my Instagram. And it has really helped me recover from that low of neet. Making art for me feels like healing my broken soul which no low cutoff prediction or sweet consoling words or rant could do.

I feel so blessed now looking back at my journey now.

It's way better than that initial feelings of being betrayed to sufferinht hell within.

I am happily ready to whatever adventure in ahead.

Here a lil image of a recent painting I did.

Well I'll Keep sharing good stuff.