Minimum Rank for AIIMS SC Category

The minimum rank for AIIMS SC category depends on the difficulty level of NEET paper and overall candidates’ performance in the exam.

Though you qualified the NEET exam by scoring 40 percentile, for AIIMS admission you need to score much higher scores. AIIMS Delhi needs at least the top 500-600 ranks for SC candidates in NEET 2026.

• Last year at NEET 2025, the minimum rank needed for AIIMS Delhi was 644 for SC candidates. While AIIMS Bhubaneswar needed 6034 ranks.
• At least 15,000-17,000 ranks are needed for SC candidates to get into AIIMS Mangalagiri, Patna, Hyderabad and Kalyani.
• SC candidates still have a chance to get into AIIMS Guwahati, Rajkot, Deoghar, and Bilaspur if they ranked around 30k-40k in NEET.

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NEET Qualifying Cutoff vs AIIMS Admission Cutoff for SC Category

Scoring at least 40 percentile in NEET makes SC candidates eligible for counselling. However, SC candidates need higher ranks to get into top medical colleges like AIIMS.

• 115-142 marks are likely to be the qualifying cutoff marks for SC candidates, whereas SC PwD candidates need around 113-125 marks to clear the NEET qualifying cutoff.
• Last year, the SC closing rank for AIIMS Delhi was 644.

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College-wise Minimum Rank for AIIMS SC Category

Last year at NEET 2025, the minimum rank needed to get into AIIMS Delhi for the SC category was 644. AIIMS Bhubaneswar closed at 6034 rank for the SC category.

• AIIMS Jodhpur, Bhopal, Rishikesh, and Nagpur usually close under 9000 ranks for the SC category.
• SC candidates still have a chance to get in if their NEET rank is around 30k-40k ranks.
• AIIMS Bilaspur, Gorakhpur, Rajkot and Guwahati are still available for students with 30-40k NEET ranks.

Source: NEET UG Guidance

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Year-wise Minimum Ranks for AIIMS SC Category

Minimum ranks needed for the SC category for MBBS admission at AIIMS usually depend on the difficulty level of the NEET paper and the overall candidate's performance.

• In NEET 2024, SC candidates had a cutoff of 1,38,000 ranks after the final round of counselling.
• 52252 was the minimum rank needed for SC candidates to get into AIIMS in NEET 2023.

Source: NEET UG Guidance

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Minimum Rank for AIIMS SC Category: Reddit Discussion

Users on the r/ MEDICoreTards subreddit explain that you need to be in the top 2000 ranks to get into Top AIIMS, especially for general candidates. AIIMS Delhi required the top 50 ranks. However, for SC candidates, 500-600 ranks are usually enough to get into.

SC candidates usually can get into top AIIMS even with ranks around 9k-10k.

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