Guwahati, May 5 -- The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET-UG) was conducted smoothly across 97 centres in 17 cities and towns of Assam under tight security.

Following a request from the Assam government, the National Testing Agency (NTA) allocated exam centres only in government schools and provincialised colleges to prevent unfair practices. While this move improved exam management, many students found the 2025 paper especially challenging.

Mridupawan Bharadwaj, a NEET candidate, shared that the paper was particularly tough, especially the physics section, and noted several biology questions were outside the NCERT syllabus. Another aspirant, Aryaman Kashyap, agreed, calling it harder than past years, with length...