AIIMS mock test 2026 - NEET UG is now the AIIMS admission gate

There's no separate AIIMS entrance exam any more. Since 2020, AIIMS MBBS, BDS and most central medical seats are filled through NEET UG via MCC counselling. To target AIIMS Delhi or any other AIIMS in 2026, you practise the NEET UG paper - the same 180-question, 720-mark, NTA-administered test our mocks mirror.

AIIMS admission in 2026: how it actually works

The single most important fact for anyone searching "AIIMS mock test" in 2026 is that the standalone AIIMS MBBS entrance no longer exists. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences ran its own MBBS entrance from 1956 right up until the 2019 cycle - a separate paper with a separate question style, separate cut-offs and separate counselling. That changed in 2020. Following the notification under the National Medical Commission Act, AIIMS New Delhi and every other AIIMS institute moved their UG admissions onto NEET UG. Since the 2020 batch, every single AIIMS MBBS seat is filled out of the NEET UG All India Rank list, allocated by the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) on behalf of the Directorate General of Health Services.

That means the "AIIMS mock test" that you actually need in 2026 is a NEET UG mock test in the exact NTA format. There is no other paper. The AIIMS-specific syllabus that used to add a small General Knowledge / Aptitude / Logical Reasoning section in the old exam is gone. The AIIMS-style longer assertion-reasoning questions are gone. The MCQ count, the marking scheme and the duration are now identical for an AIIMS Delhi aspirant and a state government medical college aspirant - both write the same 180-question, 720-mark, 3 hour 20 minute NEET UG paper, scored +4 for correct and -1 for wrong, on the same Sunday across India. What separates the AIIMS aspirant from the rest is the rank you need on that one paper, not a different paper.

The same 2020 change applies to AIIMS BDS where offered, to AIIMS BSc Nursing (under a different entrance run by INI-CET / NORCET), and from 2023 onwards to every postgraduate AIIMS admission through INI-CET. The old AIIMS PG entrance ended in November 2022; the AIIMS UG entrance ended in 2019. Together those two closures collapse a previously multi-paper landscape into a single test for UG candidates: NEET UG. Everything else - the application portal, the notification, the result, the counselling - flows through NTA and MCC.

AIIMS Delhi MBBS rank cutoffs - indicative

AIIMS New Delhi remains the single highest-cutoff medical seat in the country. MCC AIQ Round 1 closing ranks for the AIIMS Delhi MBBS programme have hovered inside the top 60 All India Rank in every cycle since 2020, with the General category closing rank typically sitting between AIR 45 and AIR 60 across Round 1 and Round 2. The number is small for a reason - there are only 132 MBBS seats at AIIMS Delhi (after the recent expansion), and a meaningful share go to category quotas, leaving the open-category closing rank in the two-digit range.

Numbers above are indicative and aggregated from publicly published MCC AIQ Round 1 / 2 PDFs - they vary year to year with paper difficulty, candidate cohort size and category quota fills, and should always be checked against the live MCC counselling data on mcc.nic.in for the year you are applying in. As a planning target, treat top 50 All India Rank as the safe ask for AIIMS Delhi MBBS, top 100 as the AIIMS Delhi stretch, and the 700-plus raw-score band on NEET UG as the score range that historically produces those ranks for General-category candidates.

The wider AIIMS network - rank ladder across the 18 institutes

AIIMS Delhi is one of an expanded network of AIIMS institutes set up under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana. As of 2026 there are 18 AIIMS institutes admitting MBBS students through NEET UG / MCC AIQ, with combined MBBS intake of roughly 1,800 seats per cycle. The rank ladder across these is steep - AIIMS Delhi opens the ladder, the older PMSSY-cohort AIIMS (Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Jodhpur, Patna, Raipur, Rishikesh) sit in the middle, and the newer Phase-V AIIMS (Bilaspur, Deoghar, Gorakhpur, Kalyani, Mangalagiri, Nagpur, Rajkot, Bibinagar, Madurai, Guwahati, Vijaypur, and others depending on the year's notification) sit at the wider end of the band.

The bands above are indicative and rounded to the closest realistic planning range; the absolute closing rank for any given AIIMS in any given year depends on the round (Round 1 cutoffs are tightest, Stray Vacancy is the widest), category quota interactions and the spread of upgrades after Round 2. Treat the top-of-band number as the rough Round 1 closing AIR for a comfortable General-category seat and the bottom-of-band number as the late-round closing. For the live data, always cross-check the MCC Round 1 / Round 2 closing rank PDFs on mcc.nic.in for the year you are targeting.

The exam paper is identical to NEET UG

Because every AIIMS UG seat is now filled out of NEET UG, the practice paper for an AIIMS aspirant is the NEET UG paper. The full breakdown lives on the NEET UG pattern page but the short version is: 180 single-best-answer MCQs split as 45 Physics, 45 Chemistry, 45 Botany, 45 Zoology, scored +4 for correct and -1 for wrong, 0 for unattempted, 720 marks max, 3 hours 20 minutes total, NTA pen-and-paper OMR mode, single sitting across India on the same day, no second session, no best-of-two. The old AIIMS-specific Section B General Knowledge / Aptitude / Logical Reasoning block has been gone since 2020; there is nothing extra an AIIMS aspirant has to study beyond the NCERT-aligned NEET UG syllabus the rest of the candidate cohort is preparing against.

What is genuinely different at the AIIMS level is the accuracy bar. For a General-category top-60 AIR, you are looking at roughly 705-720 out of 720 on a recent-year paper, which in turn implies fewer than 4 incorrect answers across all 180 questions. The mock cadence that produces those numbers is not unusual - 25-plus full-length NEET UG mocks across the final five months, with every wrong answer analysed and a target accuracy of 99-plus on Biology, 95-plus on Chemistry, and 90-plus on Physics. The mocks here are scored on exactly the NTA marking scheme, so an aspirational AIIMS Delhi target on the mock translates one-to-one to the same number on the real paper.

Eligibility, application and scholarships for AIIMS via NEET UG

Because the gate is NEET UG, the eligibility, application window and scholarship landscape are identical to NEET UG. The headline rules are: Class 12 with Physics, Chemistry, Biology / Biotechnology and English, a minimum 50 percent PCB aggregate for General (45 percent for General-PwD, 40 percent for SC / ST / OBC), minimum age 17 by 31 December of the year of admission, no upper age cap, no limit on number of attempts. The full eligibility detail (droppers, NIOS, foreign-board, NRI, OCI, improvement-exam rules) is on the NEET eligibility page and applies equally to anyone targeting an AIIMS seat.

Application is via neet.nta.nic.in - the typical window is February through mid-March, with the exam day for NEET UG 2026 rescheduled to Sunday, 21 June 2026 (pending the formal NTA confirmation). The application fee structure (1,700 for General, lower for reserved categories, higher for foreign centres), document specs, and the common mistakes that cost a candidate their preferred test city are all on the NEET application walkthrough - same form, same portal, same window for any AIIMS aspirant. Once you have a rank, MCC AIQ counselling picks the AIIMS seat from your NEET UG All India Rank against the round-by-round seat matrix; there is no separate AIIMS counselling round.

On scholarships, AIIMS Delhi is one of the lowest-tuition government MBBS programmes in India - effective tuition is in the low four-figures per year for in-batch students, so the scholarship landscape for an AIIMS admit is less about tuition coverage and more about maintenance and stipend. The relevant schemes - Central Sector Scheme of Scholarships, state post-matric schemes, and private / corporate awards - are covered in detail on the NEET scholarships page.