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NEET, Medical, Pharmacy Careers - Answered on Mar 17, 2026

Dr Nagarajan JSK is an associate professor and former head of medical research at the JSS College of Pharmacy, Ooty.
He has over 30 years of experience in counselling students towards making the right career choices, particularly in the field of pharmacy.
As the JSS College placement officer, he has helped aspiring professionals prepare for and crack job interviews.
Dr Nagarajan holds a PhD in pharmaceutical sciences from the JSS Academy of Higher Education And Research, Mysore, and is currently guiding five PhD scholars.... more
Asked by Anonymous - Feb 21, 2026Hindi
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I am pcb 12 pass with 81.6% but I took two drop for neet currently I am 20 and want to change my career so any suggestions and I also think it’s to late to change career.

Ans: Hi,
I understand your issues. Earlier you were interested in medicine, which is the reason you dropped out for a year or two, but could not succeed.

Now you want to change from medicine to something else or you have some other courses in mind.

OK.
Now the scenario is that the education system is also slowly shifting from continuously pursuing to focusing on one and if not possible then switch over to the next. This is correct as per today's scenario. So you are not confusing yourself and others. But now you want to change?

In which field? That's important. I think, I can say the score of HSC is also not bad. Means you did not have enough guidance regarding this. That's the reason you could not succeed.
Whenever you appear for the competitive exams, the following need to be studied....before appearing for the same, and accordingly we have to prepare ourselves.
Firstly, we have to opt for SWOT analysis
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.
Strengths and weaknesses are known factors, but the other two are based on the following.
1. Rank/percentile
2. Category
3. Domicile
4. Gender (sometimes plays)
5. Some other categories...

I think you did not analyze and just appeared for NEET.
My question is, is your aim only medicine or are other health courses also OK?

Age factor: Recently I have come across that many students are pursuing pharmacy after dropping a year or two (almost their age is also 20).
So don't worry about the age.
The most important one that you did not share?
Your gender. Kindly reply. So that I can provide my suggestion to you.

Thank you.
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