The numbers #

Every rank-holder, with the number of questions they practised.

NEET 2026 — NEETprep rank-holdersMCQs practised on the platform
Student AIR MCQs practised
Uplakshya Goyal 3 90K
Aryan Dubey 7 22K
Madhvan Mahajan 44 12K
Aditya Kumar 73 20K
Mihir Patel 114 10K
Devesh S Agrawal 123 40K
Panav Saharan 130 11K
Adi Dhingra 161 25K
Shaurya Singla 174 39K
Rudra Pattani 268 10K
Sudipta Fouzdar 293 15K
Vaibhav Jindal 347 8K
Ankit Raj 534 20K

What the spread means #

More questions is not a straight line to a better rank — but nobody here practised lightly.

The temptation with a table like this is to read it as a target: practise 90,000 questions, finish third. It doesn't work that way. Aditya Kumar took AIR 73 on 20,000 questions; Devesh S Agrawal took AIR 123 on twice that. Madhvab Mahajan reached AIR 44 on 12,000 — fewer than eight of the students ranked below him.

What separates them isn't visible in a volume count. Two students can attempt the same number of questions and take entirely different things from them, depending on whether they reviewed what they got wrong or simply moved on to the next one.

The count is a proxy for time spent solving rather than time spent reading. That distinction is the one that matters, and it's the one a chapter checklist can't measure.

The floor, not the ceiling #

The useful signal is the bottom of the range: 8,000 questions.

The lowest count in the group belongs to Vaibhav Jindal at AIR 347, and it is still 8,000 — roughly 44 times the length of the actual paper. Nobody reached a national rank here on a few hundred questions.

Read against the 2026 cutoff, that floor makes sense. Qualifying took 213 marks for UR, but the closing ranks at the colleges most aspirants are aiming for sat in the low hundreds. Clearing the bar and competing for a seat are different problems, and only the second is solved by volume.

If you want a number to plan against, the honest one is the floor rather than the average: 8,000 questions is the least that worked for anyone in this group, and most did considerably more.

Frequently asked #

How many questions should I practise for NEET?
The 13 NEET 2026 rank-holders who prepared on NEETprep practised between 8,000 and 90,000 MCQs, with the median around 20,000. There's no single right number, but 8,000 is the floor across this group.
Does practising more questions guarantee a better rank?
No. AIR 44 practised 12,000 while AIR 123 practised 40,000. Volume and rank don't move together in a straight line — what you do with a wrong answer matters more than how many you attempt.
What was the NEET 2026 cutoff?
213 marks for UR and EWS at the 50th percentile, 177 for OBC, SC and ST at the 40th. Full breakdown on the cutoff page.