NEET 2025 - Make It or Break It!

BEGINNING!

Namaste!

I am Aditi...a 20-year-old NEET aspirant. 2025 is going to be my last attempt at this excruciating exam. To all those who are not familiar with it..... NEET - NATIONAL ELIGIBILITY CUM ENTRANCE EXAMINATION is conducted all across the country once a year for students who have passed 12th standard to get into a government medical college. Now, here's the thing: with around 24 lakh aspirants (as of 2024) and with 25,000 (approximately) MBBS government seats, it is no easy feat.

Enough about the exam and its competitiveness, let's talk about me....or... should I not, let's keep it suspense...he he...😁😁

Nahi, I must tell you about myself so that you can connect a bit better maybe. So....kaha se shuru karu...kayi sadiyo pehle....okay okay... let's be serious.

I was born in Lucknow, the capital city of Uttar Pradesh. I have done my secondary schooling in my village only. Now, here's the thing: if you are from a small town, you'll relate to this: being in my village and my school there was probably the best thing that happened to me, but I had no idea about the competitive world outside. I was satiated with the type of education and exposure I was getting there. It was like the one-eyed king. That was when it was decided that I was to move to a city so that I could get a better education after I passed my 8th. I was always academically good enough to do something in life and bit into sports as well. All in all, I was living my best life there.

From here begins the second phase of my story, after I moved to a new city, the challenges were innumerable. It was emotionally challenging to move away from my hometown to live with my father, to move away from my friends, in an entirely new city and new school...and let's not forget the sudden decline in my confidence. However, all these things were too menial for what I was to face in the future, but at that moment...god..it was like the end of life. I survived though, and completed my 10th, lockdown happened and my goodness..I wasted my 11th standard and how.
Now comes the turning point; I have always wanted to be a doctor ever since I was a child (7 years old, to be precise). People normally start preparing for competitive exams right after their 10th standard. However, I had no idea that I should also start preparing or the fact that competitive exams were made for rejection, not selection. That is still the biggest mistake and regret of my life. I had completely wasted my 11th standard, icing on the cake was the online class. I had no idea of the 11th syllabus.
Then came 12th standard, which was again a board year, I continued studying online and did a self-study, YouTube and whatnot. Here comes the twist...I was in 12th in the academic year 2021-22, the year before that, due to COVID, board exams were cancelled, so CBSE decided to make things difficult for us. Two board exams were to be conducted for that academic year!!!!! Now you can imagine my plight; I lacked the basics, and I was to give boards. If it wasn't already clear, I had taken science (PCB). Anyways, fast-forward to the end of TERM 2, board exams were finally over, 12th done...now what?!!!

So my first attempt at NEET, or should I say my introduction to the exam, was when I first attempted it in 2022 (JULY), right after my board exams. I had no expectations to clear it or get a college, I didn't even know what to expect in the exam, exam pattern or any pre-requisite I ought to have. After my first attempt, my father and I decided that I should take a drop year and prepare for the exam. And from there on..27th July 2022, began the darkest, hardest, saddest phase of my life.

I was to face such humiliation, hard time, gut-wrenching tiredness, I had no idea....and all that for what...only to not get selected!

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Hello ji!
So....first of all, thank you so much for giving this book a go, kyuki aapne itna boring book khola, wahi mere liye bahut badi baat hai. It wouldn't be a lie if I said this is my first time trying to write something; of course, I have written several times but not published it or anything. I have always loved reading books, and writing came naturally, but achha likhti hu ya nahi uske judge aap ho!!! Please zyada bura bhala mat bolna, warna maine ro dena hai. I am one of those people jiska koyi bhi social media account kabhi raha nahi, so public exposure mera kaafi limited raha hai. Bahut himmat karke maine yeh journey ko jot down karne ka mann bnaya, please please please be sweet and kind..duniya (and NTA) already meri band baja rahe hai, aap toh thoda saath de do yaar....
As far as updates and all those things are concerned, see I might not be able to update that often, kyu, kaise, kab, kaha, saari details hum aage ke parts mein discuss karte rahenge ....abhi ke liye - HUMARE SAATH YATRA KA NIRNAY LENE KE LIYE AAPKA DHANYAWAAD, UMEED KARTI HU EK ACHHA SAFAR HO HUMARA, AAGE AANE WAALE PARTS KE LIYE AAP APNI KURSI KI PETI BAANDH LE, AUR TISSUE LEKAR READY RAHE. TAB TAK KE LIYE........ ALVIDA!!!!