📚 Syllabus
NEET PG 2026 Syllabus
NEET PG draws from all 19 MBBS subjects across pre-clinical, para-clinical and clinical years, with clinical subjects carrying the heaviest weightage.
Syllabus Structure — 3 Groups
🔬 Pre-Clinical Lower weightage
- Anatomy
- Physiology
- Biochemistry
🧪 Para-Clinical Moderate weightage
- Pathology
- Microbiology
- Pharmacology
- Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
- Preventive & Social Medicine (PSM)
🏥 Clinical Highest weightage
- General Medicine
- General Surgery
- Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Paediatrics
- Orthopaedics
- ENT
- Ophthalmology
- Dermatology
- Psychiatry
- Anaesthesia
- Radiology
Clinical integration trend: Roughly 53% of recent NEET PG papers are clinically-oriented questions (case vignettes), even within subjects traditionally seen as “theory-heavy” like Pathology and Pharmacology.
Subject-wise Priority Tiers
| Subject | Priority |
|---|---|
| Surgery | High |
| Medicine | High |
| OBG | High |
| Pathology | High |
| Microbiology | Medium |
| Pharmacology | Medium |
| PSM | Medium |
| Paediatrics | Medium |
| Anatomy / Physiology / Biochemistry | Lower |
| Radiology / Derm / Psychiatry / ENT / Ophthal / Ortho / FMT / Anaesthesia | Lower (individually), high collectively |
See the full subject-wise weightage page for estimated question counts per subject.
High-Yield Topics Per Subject (Snapshot)
- Medicine: Cardiology, Endocrinology, Infectious Disease, Nephrology
- Surgery: GI surgery, Hepatobiliary, Trauma, Urology basics
- OBG: High-risk pregnancy, PPH, eclampsia, ectopic pregnancy
- Pathology: Tumour markers, lymphoma/leukaemia, histopathology images
- PSM: Biostatistics, national health programs, epidemiology
A complete subject-by-subject breakdown is on the high-yield topics page.
How NEET PG Syllabus Compares to INICET
Both exams cover the identical 19-subject MBBS syllabus, and the subject overlap is roughly 90–95%. The difference is in emphasis: INICET leans more heavily on clinical reasoning, pathology images, and biochemistry calculations, while NEET PG has a broader recall-plus-vignette mix spread more evenly across all 19 subjects. Time spent on NEET PG syllabus is rarely wasted — it transfers almost directly into INICET preparation, and vice versa.
Question Format Within the Syllabus
Every NEET PG question is a single-best-response MCQ with four options — there are no multiple-correct-choice (MCC) questions, unlike INICET. Questions are framed either as direct recall (definitions, classic associations, drug of choice) or as short clinical vignettes describing a patient presentation and asking for the most likely diagnosis or next best step. Image-based questions — histopathology slides, radiographs, clinical photographs, and ECGs — appear across Pathology, Radiology, Dermatology, and Medicine sections.
Mapping the Syllabus to a Study Sequence
A practical way to approach 19 subjects without feeling overwhelmed is to sequence them by weightage tier rather than by MBBS-year order. Start with Tier-1 clinical subjects (Surgery, Medicine, OBG, Pathology) since they carry the most questions and the richest cross-subject connections. Move to Tier-2 (Microbiology, Pharmacology, PSM, Paediatrics) next, since these frequently reinforce concepts already covered in Tier-1. Save Tier-3 subjects for shorter, focused revision blocks closer to the exam, using high-yield-topic lists rather than full textbook chapters.
Bridge to UPSC CMS Prep
🎯 One Question Bank, Three Exams
Medicine, Surgery, OBG, Paediatrics and PSM are common to UPSC CMS, NEET PG and INICET. CMS Prep’s 1440+ previous year questions (2020–2025) cover roughly 46% of the NEET PG syllabus by subject overlap — practising them sharpens your NEET PG prep at the same time.