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Girls have higher success rate but boys lead 690+ NEET club

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  1. Women were 58.5% of NEET-UG 2026 registrations and 56.8% of qualifiers, but only 21.7% of the 138 candidates scoring 690+.

  2. Kudale Shravani Krishna of Maharashtra (AIR 5) and Riya Ranjan of Bihar (AIR 6) were the only two women in the top 10.

  3. Aryan Gupta of Punjab secured AIR 1, followed by Panshul Bansal of Haryana and Uplakshya Goyal of Rajasthan.

  4. Rajasthan and Maharashtra together accounted for 37 of the 138 candidates in the 690+ club, or 26.8%.

  5. No ST candidate scored 690 or above; the 690+ list included 102 general, 27 OBC-NCL, 5 General-EWS, and 4 SC candidates.

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