Student mental health problems are the most talked about topics these days, especially the students preparing for entrance exams like NEET, as there has been a lot of reports about suicides and psychological breakdowns of NEET aspirants in the past few years. The current study focuses on finding out whether there is a correlation between depression, stress and anxiety among NEET aspirants, and whether there is a difference between male and female NEET aspirants with respect to stress, anxiety, and depression. The sample taken for this study was 72 male and female NEET aspirants whose age range was between 18 to 22 years. The snowball sampling method was used to collect the data. The DASS-21 self-report scale was used to assess the participants and the demographic details of the participants were collected with the responses from the scale via google forms. The data was statistically analysed using SPSS. The Shapiro wilk test of normality was run on the data along with the spearman’s rank correlation coefficient test and Mann Whitney U Test. the findings of the study suggested that there is a significant positive correlation between stress, depression and anxiety, and that there is a significant difference between male and female NEET aspirants with respect to stress, and depression only. The results also showed that there was no significant difference seen between male and female NEET aspirants with respect to anxiety.