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OPEN category rank bands based on 3 years of closing rank data (16 categories tracked)
High Chance
< 11,575
Qualified every year
Moderate Chance
11,575–16,535
Qualified some years
Low Chance
16,535–26,451
Did not qualify in any year
Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences shows unpredictable BDS cutoffs: AIR 13,633 in 2023, AIR 11,927 in 2024, AIR 24,046 in 2025. Plan for volatility. For ST BDS candidates, the effective cutoff of AIR 2,19,455 is far more lenient than the OPEN mark of AIR 24,046.
College data sourced from Dental Council of India