New Delhi: The National Testing Agency (NTA) released the NEET-UG 2026 final answer key on Thursday. The NTA may release final result soon to fill more than 1.36 lakh medical seats in colleges across the country.

More than 22 lakh candidates appear for NEET-UG every year, with the academic session 2026-27 intake of more than 1.36 lakh medical students. NTA in its official website twitter X said that ‘The NEET-UG 2026 Final Answer Key has been released. Visit the official portal to check the Final Answer Key’.

After releasing the scanned images of OMR sheets of candidates who appeared in the NEET UG 2026 re-exam on June 21^st, the NTA had closed the window to challenge OMR responses on Wednesday.

Students had to pay Rs 200 per challenge. The Rs 200 fee would be refunded if a student’s challenge is upheld, the NTA said. The window to challenge the provisional answer key for the re-exam had closed earlier on June 28.

Earlier this month, the NTA started the NEET-UG 2026 fee refund process after urging the students to update their bank account details on the official portal. The NEET-UG 2026 retest was conducted without major glitches, the NTA had credited the whole-of-Government effort and thanked seven lakh officials involved in the mega exercise.

NTA in its official website twitter X said that ‘Team NTA. Team Bharat. One exam, delivered together’. It reaffirmed its commitment to uphold the sanctity of the medical admission test whose previous round on May 3^rd was forced to be cancelled due to irregularities.

The NTA highlighted the effort put in on June 21, showcasing the whole-of-government effort, the scale of it and the care for 10,000 differently-abled candidates that went into the successful conduct of the exam. Around 7 lakh officials police teams, observers and examination staff were mobilized across India to conduct this examination, and it was done in a record 37 days.

NTA is especially grateful to the experts from academic institutions across the country who gave their personal time to help prepare multiple sets of question papers, it said. More than 20 lakh aspirants. One exam. A country’s administrative machinery, ministerial, bureaucratic, police, district and local aligned behind a single day, so that each candidate could simply sit down and write, it added.

The NTA said to every candidate who wrote on 21 June well done. And to everyone who made it possible: thank you. Team NTA. Team Bharat. One exam, delivered together.