NERIST Entrance Exam (NEE) 2025: Exam Date, Application Form, Syllabus, Exam Pattern, Question Paper

NERIST Entrance Examination (NEE) is an offline entrance exam held across the North Eastern States (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, and Tripura). This entrance exam is conducted by the North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST) for admission to  BTech, BTech LE, BSc (Hons) in Forestry, and certificate courses. NEE-I, NEE-II and NEE-III are held for admission to certificate courses, BTech & BSc (Hons) in Forestry, and BTech Lateral Entry respectively. The NEE-II is conducted with a single question paper of 150 marks of three hours duration. NEE-II (PCM) is held for candidates aspiring to take admission in BTech courses and NEE-II (PCB) is for candidates seeking admission to BSc (Hons) in Forestry. Candidates who qualify NEE, have to appear for the counselling rounds conducted by NERIST for admission.

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Candidates can check below the important details of NEE:

The admission process for NEE 2025 is as follows:

NERIST NEE 2025 Admissions Process

• Step 1: Register for NEE 2025: To begin with, aspirants need to register for the NEE exam if they are eligible.

• Step 2: Download NEE 2025 Admit Card: NEE admit cards can be downloaded from the official website. To download the same, aspirants will need their login details.

• Step 3: Appear for the Nerist entrance exam 2025: NEE is conducted in offline mode. Aspirants are advised to follow all the instructions for the exam as given on the admit card.
• Step 4: Check NEE 2025 exam result: NEE result is declared on the official website.

• Step 5: Appear for NEE 2025 Counselling: Aspirants who clear the exam need to appear for NEE counselling, as per the schedule.

Candidates can check below the eligibility to apply for NEE:

Age limit: The maximum Age limit as of 31st July of the current academic year is 23 years for the students of the general category (GE) (born on or after 1st August 2002), 26 years for OBC and female applicants (born on or after 1st August 1999) and 28 years for ST/SC/PD (born on or after 1st August 1997).

Academic qualification: Academic Qualifications for different schemes/modes of NEE-II:

• NEE-II (PCM): Applicants must have passed/appeared in 10+2/ Higher Secondary/Sr. Secondary with Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics (PCM).
• NEE-II (PCB): Applicants must have passed/appeared in 10+2/Higher Secondary/Sr. Secondary with Physics, Chemistry and Biology (PCB).

Candidates have to apply online for NEE. Note that the form must be filled out very carefully. After the final submission of the application form, no changes can be made by the applicant to their online application. A printout of the submitted complete Application form is to be retained with the candidate, which is to be submitted at the time of counselling/admission if selected.

How to fill out the NEE Form?

The entire process of filling online application form can be completed in below mentioned 9 steps:

1. Registration: Register yourself for the online application process at the North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (Application Portal–www.neeonline.ac.in).
2. Activation: Activate your online Application with the E-mail ID and Your Activation Code; send it your submitted Email ID/Mobile No in the registration process.
3. Programme selection: Selection of the Program Type & Program Name and check eligibility.
4. Filling the online form: If the applicant confirms the eligibility criteria and continues the Program, the next webpage appears. The applicant is required to click on “Application Details”. The application form will appear on the screen. The applicant is required to fill in the details in the application form.
5. Uploading scanned images: In the next step, the applicant is required to upload scanned image files of their Photograph and Signature one by one (as specified in points 4 & 5 above).
6. Fill academic details: In the next step, the applicant is required to fill in the Academic details.
7. Choose exam centre: In the next step, the applicant is required to choose an Examination Centre preference.
8. Review: Once all the details are filled in, the candidate is required to review the details entered and confirm. No edit will be allowed once the application is confirmed.
9. Fee payment: Payment of fees through online.

Photo & Signature Upload in NEE Form

The scanned passport photo and signature should be:

• within 3.5 X 4.5 cm in size
• maximum 100 KB in size
•  ".JPEG/.JPG" format

NEE 2025 Application Fee

The application fee for NEE is as follows:

• INR 1500 for Gen/OBC/EWS
• INR 1000 for ST/SC/PH

Candidates can pay the fee using a Credit Card / Debit Card / Net Banking through the payment gateway available on the portal.

The NEE-II syllabus is prescribed by NERIST. The syllabus includes Physics, Chemistry and Maths for BTech aspirants and Physics, Chemistry and Biology for BSc (H) Forestry aspirants.

The topics in the NEE syllabus are as follows:

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• How to prepare for NEE 2025

NEE is held in offline mode. Candidates have to answer the questions using the OMR sheet. The total mark in the exam is 150. The exam pattern for NEE-II is as follows:

 The exam pattern for NEE-II (BTech courses) is given below:

The exam pattern for NEE-II (BSc H Forestry courses) is given below:

The cities where the NEE exam is held at various centres are as follows:

The registered candidates can download the NEE admit card from the official website as per the scheduled date. On the day of the examination, candidates must bring their NEE admit card, black ballpoint pen, etc., to the examination hall. Calculator (non-programmable) / Log tables are allowed for NEE-II, NEE-II (Vocational) and NEE-III.

In case of non-receipt of NEE admit card 2025, candidate must bring a photocopy of their Registration Confirmation page and two colour photographs.

Below are the steps to download the admit card

• Visit the official website of NEE 2025.
• Click on the link for the NIRSET NEE Admit Card.
• Enter the registration number and Password.
• The admit card will be displayed on your computer screen, check all the details and download it.

The NEE 2025 answer keys of MCQ-based NEE shall be uploaded to the admission portal after completion of the test. The answer key shall have the correct answers to all questions asked in the NEE exam. Candidates can challenge through online mode for verification of NEE answer keys if they are not satisfied with the respective question(s) / answer option(s), for a limited period of time.

The non-refundable processing fee for each challenge is INR 500/- (Rupees Five Hundred only) plus admissible charges, if any which will be required to be paid online only. Note that, challenges submitted by post/email in person are not accepted, only the online mode shall be accepted.

The NEE 2025 results shall be declared on the NERIST website. There will be cut-off marks for the selection of candidates through NERIST Entrance Examinations. The result shall be calculated using the marking scheme of the exam and displayed on the website.

NERIST NEE 2025 results are made available separately for three modules (or levels): NEE-I, NEE-II, and NEE-III. NEE 2025 result comprises the list of candidates who have qualified in the written test and are further called for the counselling process.

Candidates can check the various reservation categories applicable during NERIST counselling:

• State quota: For candidates who belong to any of the Eight North Eastern States. 80% of seats are reserved for candidates of the 8 (Eight) North Eastern States (10% for each state) as state quota. Besides this, 7% of the total seats are filled up with Permanent Residence Certificate (PRC) holders of these 8 (Eight) North Eastern States on a merit basis. 
• All India quota: For candidates who belong to any of the States of India. 10% of the total seats are filled up with candidates under the all India quota.
• PD quota: For candidates with 40 to 75% Physical loco-motor Disability (PD) belonging to any of the States of India. 3% of the total seats are reserved for Physical Locomotor Disabled (PD) persons under the PD quota.

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NERIST Entrance Exam (NEE) 2025 counselling is conducted by the institute after the declaration of the result. The names of the qualified candidates are uploaded to the official website of the university. Such candidates have to attend the NERIST NEE counselling process according to the schedule released by the authority. During the NERIST 2025 counselling, the candidates have to produce all the original certificates at the time of the certificate verification process. Also, they have to submit the attested copies of their documents along with the online Anti-ragging undertakings. The admission of the candidate is subject to the availability of the seats in their choice of college and course.