Assam NEET UG 2026 Cut-Off —
The Actual Round 1 Allotment Marks
DME Assam's Round 1 provisional selection list is out. Below is the real, category-wise lowest score that secured an MBBS or BDS seat — General, EWS, SC, ST(Plains), ST(Hills), OBC/MOBC-NCL and PwD — with the allotted college for each. Our earlier trend-based pre-allotment estimate, from before the result was declared, is kept further down the page for comparison.
Last verified · 2 September 2026 · against the official Round 1 provisional selection list
The short version. DME Assam's Round 1 provisional selection list (2 September 2026) shows the actual lowest MBBS score that got a State Quota seat: General 525, EWS 512, OBC/MOBC-NCL 434, SC 439, ST(Plains) 417, ST(Hills) 374. BDS closed lower in every category, all at Government Dental College, Silchar: General 505, EWS 503, OBC/MOBC-NCL 424, SC 422, ST(Plains) 406, ST(Hills) 365. A small number of PwD (Divyang) MBBS seats were also filled, as low as 179–268 marks depending on category; no PwD seat was filled in BDS this round. Special-category seats (Moran, Ex-Servicemen and similar) are excluded from these regular-category figures. Full table and source note below.
The Actual Cut-Off —
Lowest Score That Got a Seat, Round 1
DME Assam's Round 1 provisional selection list for Assam State Quota MBBS and BDS seats is out. The tables below give the lowest NEET UG 2026 score that actually secured a seat in each regular category, and the college where that lowest-scoring candidate was allotted a seat — this is the real closing point, not a projection.
MBBS — Regular Category
| Category | Lowest Score | College |
|---|---|---|
| General | 525 | Kokrajhar Medical College, Kokrajhar |
| EWS | 512 | Tinsukia Medical College, Tinsukia |
| SC | 439 | Bongaigaon Medical College, Bongaigaon |
| OBC/MOBC (NCL) | 434 | Bongaigaon Medical College, Bongaigaon |
| ST (Plains) | 417 | Dhubri Medical College, Dhubri |
| ST (Hills) | 374 | ESIC Medical College & Hospital, Beltola |
BDS — Regular Category
| Category | Lowest Score | College |
|---|---|---|
| General | 505 | Government Dental College, Silchar |
| EWS | 503 | Government Dental College, Silchar |
| SC | 422 | Government Dental College, Silchar |
| OBC/MOBC (NCL) | 424 | Government Dental College, Silchar |
| ST (Plains) | 406 | Government Dental College, Silchar |
| ST (Hills) | 365 | Government Dental College, Silchar |
Every BDS seat filled this round — across all six categories — went to Government Dental College, Silchar. That is a reflection of Assam's very small BDS seat pool (176 seats across 3 government dental colleges), not an error in the data.
PwD (Divyang) — MBBS
| Category | Lowest Score | College |
|---|---|---|
| PwD — General | 195 | Kokrajhar Medical College, Kokrajhar |
| PwD — EWS | 196 | Silchar Medical College, Silchar |
| PwD — SC | 268 | Gauhati Medical College, Guwahati |
| PwD — ST (Plains) | 205 | Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh |
| PwD — OBC/MOBC (NCL) | 179 | Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh |
PwD — BDS: No PwD selection is recorded in the Round 1 list for BDS seats. Special-category selections such as Moran and Ex-Servicemen quotas are excluded from every table above — they run on their own separate, much smaller seat counts and closing points; see the reservation structure further down this page for how those are carved out.
Source, verified. These figures are verified against the Official Provisional Selection List, NEET UG 2026, published by the Directorate of Medical Education, Assam, alongside Notice No. e.DME/UG/2026/790538/1196 dated 2 September 2026, and compiled into the tables above for readability. As with any official list, DME Assam can issue a corrigendum after publication — always confirm your own specific result against your candidate login at dme.assam.gov.in, and let us know if you spot a revision so we can update this page immediately.
36,268 Names,
Category by Category
| Category | Appeared | Qualifying Floor | Cleared the Floor |
|---|---|---|---|
| General | 16,542 | 213 (50th percentile) | 7,064 |
| Gen-EWS | 4,078 | 213 (50th percentile) | 2,817 |
| OBC/MOBC-NCL | 7,451 | 177 (40th percentile) | 4,313 |
| ST | 5,518 | 177 (40th percentile) | 2,705 |
| SC | 2,679 | 177 (40th percentile) | 1,520 |
| Total | 36,268 | — | 18,419 |
Two things worth sitting with. First: clearing the national qualifying floor is not the same as being competitive for a seat — barely half of everyone who appeared even cleared it, and the seats that matter close far above that floor, as the table below shows. Second: a small number of additional rows (fewer than 300 across all categories) carry a PwBD or PwD marker with their own separate, lower closing points — we've kept the main table to the five broad categories DME Assam itself lists first.
The Seat Pool These
36,268 Candidates Are Competing For
| Institution Type | MBBS Seats | Quota Split |
|---|---|---|
| Government Medical Colleges (15) | 1,925 | 85% state quota, 15% All India Quota |
| AIIMS Guwahati | 100 | All India Quota process, separate rules |
| ESIC Medical College, Beltola | 50 | 25% IP ward, 8 AIQ, 17 state quota |
| Total MBBS, Assam | ~2,075 | — |
| Government Dental Colleges (3) | 176 BDS | Same 85/15 state-AIQ structure |
Updated to include Bongaigaon Medical College, which received NMC approval for 100 MBBS seats for AY 2026-27 — the 15th state Government Medical College, taking Assam's overall medical college tally to 17 including the 2 Government-of-India institutions (AIIMS Guwahati, ESIC Beltola). Seat figures are compiled from multiple independent, currently-published sources and represent the expected 2026 total — DME Assam's own official Round 1 seat matrix, category-wise, is published separately closer to counselling and can differ from this, particularly for a newly-approved college like Bongaigaon where a first-batch seat matrix may not yet be finalised. Assam runs no private medical colleges; every MBBS seat in the state is government, AIIMS, or ESIC.
The Official Reservation Structure —
This Is Why the Percentages Aren't a Rumour
On the same day DME Assam published the provisional merit list, the Government of Assam gazetted a full rewrite of Schedule-III of the MBBS/BDS Admission Rules 2017 — Notification No. MER.290222/548, published in the Assam Gazette Extraordinary No. 387. This is the actual legal reservation structure behind every category on this page, not an estimate. Here it is, exactly as gazetted.
Step 1 — What Gets Carved Out Before “State Quota” Even Begins
| Allocation | MBBS | BDS |
|---|---|---|
| All India Quota | 15% of total seats | 15% of total seats |
| Central Pool | 6 seats | Nil |
| Royal Government of Bhutan | 5 seats (2 Gauhati MC, 2 Nalbari MC, 1 Barpeta MC&H) | Nil |
| NE states with no medical college of their own | 12 seats (Meghalaya 10, Nagaland 2*) | 18 seats (Regional Dental College) |
| State Quota | Whatever remains after all of the above | |
*Nagaland's 2 MBBS seats reduce once the first batch passes out of Nagaland's own Government Medical College.
Step 2 — How That State Quota Is Then Split
| Category | MBBS | BDS |
|---|---|---|
| OBC/MOBC (Non-Creamy Layer) | 27% of State Quota | 27% of State Quota |
| SC | 7% of State Quota | 7% of State Quota |
| ST (Plains) | 10% of State Quota | 10% of State Quota |
| ST (Hills) | 5% of State Quota | 5% of State Quota |
| EWS | 6% of State Quota | 10% of State Quota |
| NRI / NRI-sponsored | 7% of the balance after SC/ST/EWS/OBC-MOBC deduction | Nil |
| Orphans, Assam domicile | 2 seats | Nil |
| PwBD (Divyang) | 5%, horizontal within existing reservations | 5%, horizontal |
This explains a pattern in our own data. Look back at the applicant table above — OBC/MOBC-NCL is Assam's single largest reserved-category pool at 7,451 candidates, and 27% is a noticeably larger reservation than most other states carry for this category. The two facts line up. ST is split into Hills and Plains at the reservation level too (10% and 5% respectively), which is exactly why we could not give you one blended ST cut-off earlier on this page — the gazette itself treats them as two separate pools with two separate percentages.
Named-Community Seats, Carved Out of the 27% OBC/MOBC Pool
Six specific communities have their own fixed seat counts sitting inside the OBC/MOBC 27%, not on top of it. A candidate from one of these communities needs a certificate specifying that exact community by name, not just a generic OBC/MOBC certificate.
| Community | MBBS (within OBC/MOBC) | BDS (within OBC/MOBC) |
|---|---|---|
| Tea Garden / Ex-Tea Garden (TGL/Ex-TGL) | 30 (Brahmaputra Valley 22, Barak Valley 8) | 3 (Brahmaputra Valley 2, Barak Valley 1) |
| Koch Rajbangshi | 14 | 1 |
| Tai Ahom | 11 | 1 |
| Chutia | 10 | 1 |
| Moran | 9 | 1 |
| Motak | 9 | 1 |
Small, Fixed-Number Special Quotas
| Quota | MBBS | BDS |
|---|---|---|
| Ex-Servicemen & Serving Defence Personnel from Assam | 9 (1 each at AMC, GMC, SMC, JMC, Barpeta MC, Tezpur MC, Diphu MC, LMC, Dhubri MC) | 3 (1 per dental college) |
| Freedom Fighter — direct descendants | 2 | Nil |
| Extremist Violence victims' family (one-time per family) | 2 | Nil |
| Martyrs of Assam Movement — direct descendants | 2 | Nil |
| Sports Quota | 1 | Nil |
| Orphans, Assam domicile | 2 | Nil |
If a candidate under Ex-Servicemen, Freedom Fighter, Extremist Violence or Martyr quota also belongs to a reserved category (ST/SC/OBC-MOBC/EWS), they are adjusted against their own category first; the special-quota seat opens as Unreserved only if no suitable candidate is available. Sports Quota merit is decided by an eight-tier medal hierarchy from Olympic medals down to State Games medals, with NEET-UG PCB marks as the tiebreaker — and the candidate must have won at least a State-level medal within the three years before the entrance exam.
How We Built Our
Pre-Allotment Estimate
This section is now superseded by the actual Round 1 result at the top of this page. We keep it below for transparency about our own method — it held up reasonably well against what actually happened.
Before the result was out, a cut-off was not something you could read straight off a merit list. It is the rank at which seats actually ran out last time, and that depends on how many candidates in each category, how many seats, and how many people who were offered a seat actually took it. We used a two-step approach rather than guess.
Step one — we looked at how the Assam state quota's last closing rank has actually moved over the past three years: roughly AIR 69,230 for General in 2024, AIR 180,259 to 250,625 for OBC/MOBC-NCL across 2023–2024, AIR 193,800 to 229,252 for SC across 2024–2025, and a clear multi-year trend upward in every category, consistent with more candidates and, this cycle, an easier paper. From that trend, a reasonable expected closing rank for 2026 lands around AIR 90,000–92,000 for General, roughly AIR 225,000 for OBC, AIR 240,000–245,000 for SC, and a wide AIR 300,000 (Plains) to AIR 440,000 (Hills) range for ST.
Step two, and this is the part nobody else has done — we took those projected 2026 rank figures and matched them against the actual scores of real candidates at those exact ranks in this year's Assam applicant pool, from the provisional list itself. That conversion is what turns “closes around All India Rank 91,000” into “closes around 499 marks,” because rank-to-marks only means something once you have this year's real distribution, not an assumption carried over from a different year's paper.
Say plainly what this is not. This is not DME Assam's official cutoff. It is not a guarantee. Counselling outcomes depend on choice-filling behaviour, how many candidates from outside Assam get added to the merit list under the category-inclusion window that just opened, how many offered seats are actually accepted versus vacated, and decisions DME Assam has not published yet. Treat every number on this page as a working estimate to plan around, not a promise to bank your family's decision on.
Our Pre-Allotment Estimate
of Closing Scores, 2026
| Category | Expected Closing AIR | Estimated Score |
|---|---|---|
| General (UR) | ~90,000 – 92,000 | ~495 – 505 |
| EWS | ~92,000 – 94,000 | ~493 – 500 |
| OBC/MOBC-NCL | ~225,000 | ~420 |
| SC | ~240,000 – 245,000 | ~410 – 415 |
| ST (Plains) | ~300,000 | ~385 – 390 |
| ST (Hills) | ~440,000 | ~340 – 345 |
Historical rank trend from published year-on-year Assam counselling data (2023–2025); score conversion is our own, computed against this year's actual 36,268-candidate Assam applicant pool from the DME provisional list dated 5 August 2026. Read the three official DME notices published alongside this list →
If Your Score Sits Below
These Ranges
We would rather tell you this plainly now than have you spend the next month refreshing a portal for a seat that was never realistically going to come. If your score sits meaningfully below your category's estimated range above, an Assam government MBBS seat through state quota this year is unlikely. That is not a judgement on you — the paper was easier this cycle, more people cleared it, and the ranks moved up for everyone at once.
What it does mean is that the fortnight ahead is better spent looking at what your actual number opens, rather than waiting on a number it likely won't reach. That could be BDS or BAMS, which qualify at a meaningfully lower floor. It could be MBBS through management quota in a state where seats are still being allotted. It could be the 15% All India Quota, where your Assam category doesn't apply but your raw rank might land somewhere useful. None of these are consolation prizes — they are real medical degrees, and for a lot of families they turn out to be the better fit once the fees and the five years are actually laid out side by side.
We are not going to tell you your score is fine when the data says otherwise, and we are not going to push you toward a private seat you haven't asked about. If you want to know, plainly, what your specific number and category actually open right now — in Assam or outside it — walk into our Guwahati office or call. We'll tell you the truth either way.
The Round 1 actual cut-off table at the top of this page is verified against the Official Provisional Selection List, NEET UG 2026, published by the Directorate of Medical Education, Assam, alongside Notice No. e.DME/UG/2026/790538/1196 dated 2 September 2026, and compiled into readable tables. Applicant-pool figures (36,268 total, category breakdown, qualifying-floor counts) below are our own count from “Provisional List of NEET-UG-2026 Candidates Who Appeared from the State of Assam,” published by DME Assam, dated 5 August 2026 — all 617 pages read in full; this was the pre-allotment merit list, not the Round 1 result. The reservation percentages and seat allocations are transcribed directly from the Assam Gazette Extraordinary No. 387, dated 5 August 2026, Notification No. MER.290222/548 (Medical Colleges and Dental Colleges of Assam, Regulations of Admission Amendment Rules, 2026, Schedule-III), signed by Siddharth Singh, Commissioner & Secretary, Medical Education & Research Department. The pre-allotment estimate further up this page used historical closing-rank trend (2023\u20132025) from third-party published counselling-trend analysis, clearly attributed as such, not DME Assam\u2019s own figures, and is retained for transparency about our method now that the actual result has superseded it. Total seat-count figures are compiled from multiple independently published sources current as of August 2026.
How to use this page. Every date here was checked against the official counselling authority's own website on 19 August 2026. State authorities extend and revise deadlines at short notice, sometimes with only a few hours' warning, so treat this page as a starting point and confirm the current date on the official portal before you pay any fee. Orchid Education Foundation is an independent admission guidance firm. We are not an agent of any counselling authority, we cannot influence any allotment, and no seat in India can be obtained without a valid NEET UG 2026 score.
Questions Parents Ask Us
Per the Round 1 provisional selection list DME Assam published on 2 September 2026, the lowest MBBS scores that secured a State Quota seat were: General 525 (Kokrajhar Medical College), EWS 512 (Tinsukia Medical College), OBC/MOBC-NCL 434 (Bongaigaon Medical College), SC 439 (Bongaigaon Medical College), ST(Plains) 417 (Dhubri Medical College), ST(Hills) 374 (ESIC Medical College & Hospital, Beltola). BDS closed lower across every category, all at Government Dental College, Silchar: General 505, EWS 503, OBC/MOBC-NCL 424, SC 422, ST(Plains) 406, ST(Hills) 365. These figures are compiled from the official provisional selection list and exclude special-category seats such as Moran and Ex-Servicemen quotas, which have their own separate closing points.
Closely, and slightly higher across the board — which is normal once real choice-filling behaviour is in the mix rather than a rank-based projection. Our pre-allotment estimate (further down this page, published 21 August 2026) projected General around 495–505, OBC/MOBC-NCL around 420, SC around 410–415, and ST in a wide 340–390 band. The actual Round 1 result came in at 525 General, 434 OBC/MOBC-NCL, 439 SC, 417 ST(Plains) and 374 ST(Hills) — all within or just above the projected range, confirming the trend-based method held up reasonably well this year. We keep the original estimate on this page for transparency about our own methodology, but the actual Round 1 figures above are now the number that matters.
36,268, according to our own count of every row in the provisional list DME Assam published on 5 August 2026. That is everyone who marked Assam as their state and appeared for the Re-NEET on 21 June 2026, including candidates who did not clear the national qualifying floor. Of those 36,268, 18,419 actually cleared it — 213 marks for General and EWS, 177 for OBC/MOBC-NCL, SC and ST.
Based on how the General category's closing rank has moved over 2023 to 2025 (Assam State Quota closed at AIR 69,230 in 2024, per published historical data) and applying that same trend to the actual 2026 Assam applicant pool we analysed, the General category state quota is likely to close somewhere around All India Rank 90,000 to 92,000 — which lines up with roughly 495 to 505 marks in this year's pool. This is an estimate built from trend analysis, not an official cutoff, and DME Assam has not published one.
Using the same method — historical closing-rank trend applied to this year's real applicant numbers — OBC/MOBC-NCL looks likely to close near AIR 225,000, roughly 420 marks. SC near AIR 240,000 to 245,000, roughly 410 to 415 marks. Per the Assam Gazette reservation schedule dated 5 August 2026, OBC/MOBC gets 27% of state quota seats, SC gets 7%. ST is the category to read most carefully, because the same gazette reserves 10% of state quota for ST(Plains) and a separate 5% for ST(Hills), which close at very different points — ST(P) has historically closed far earlier than ST(H). Our estimate treats ST as one combined band, roughly 340 to 390 marks, and you should treat that range as wide rather than precise for this reason.
No, and this is worth knowing. Assam's admission rules carry additional reservation categories beyond the four broad ones — Koch-Rajbongshi, Tai-Ahom, Motak, Chutia, Moran, Char Area, Tea Garden Labourer (TGL/Ex-TGL) for both Barak and Brahmaputra valleys, Government School quota, Freedom Fighter, Sports, Ex-Serviceman, and more, each with its own closing rank. If one of these applies to you specifically, the broad category estimates on this page are not the number to anchor on — ask us and we'll look at your specific category.
Genuinely worth thinking through rather than assuming the door is shut. A NEET UG 2026 score below the likely Assam state quota range can still open BDS, BAMS, BHMS, or MBBS through management quota in private colleges in states like West Bengal, Karnataka or Gujarat, or the 15% All India Quota where competition works differently. We are not going to tell you your score is fine when it likely isn't for Assam government MBBS this year — but we are also not going to let you assume nothing is left. Come in, or call, and we will lay out what genuinely fits your number.
One Honest Conversation
Beats a Month of Guessing.
Bring your NEET UG 2026 scorecard to our Bormotoria Guwahati office, or call. We'll tell you plainly where you stand for Assam state quota, and what else genuinely fits if it doesn't — no pressure, no pushing.