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NEET PG 2025 to be conducted on August 3 in a single shift: Supreme Court
Written By Riya R Alex Updated 6 Jun 2025, 12:20 PM IST Supreme Court allows NEET PG 2025 Exam on August 3.(PTI) The Supreme Court has permitted the National Board of Examination in Medical Sciences to conduct the National Board of Examinations (NEET PG 2025) exam on August 3 in a single session. The top court also clarified that no additional time will be granted to the NEET-PG 2025.
Hindustan Times
5 days ago
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NEET-PG 2025 to be held 3 in a single shift on August, Supreme Court told
NEW DELHI: The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Postgraduate 2025 (NEET-PG 2025), which will be previously scheduled to be held in two shifts on June 15, will now be conducted in a single shift on August 3, the National Board of Examination in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) told in the Supreme Court on Tuesday. The board's decision comes days after a bench headed by justice Vikram Nath on May 30 set aside its decision to hold the examination in two shifts, ruling that the two-shift model was 'arbitrary' since any two question papers could never be said to be have an 'identical level of difficulty or ease'. The bench gave NBEMS two weeks to identify more centres for this purpose. The board, which sought the top court's approval to the new date, said in its application that August 3 was the earliest possible date given by its technology partner i.e., M/s Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS). The company has suggested the examination could be held in a single shift from 9 am to 12.30 pm on August 3. When the plan was to conduct the exam in two shifts, NBEMS said the test was to be conducted at 448 centres across 195 cities. NBEMS said the examination for 2,42,679 candidates would now be conducted at more than 1,000 centres across over 250 cities, and would require over 60,000 people to handle jobs ranging from the commanding officers, system operators, network administrators to invigilators, security staff, registration managers, CCTV staff, electricians. In addition, TCS has indicated that it would need to arrange and configure over 2,000 local exam servers across the country. 'The respondent (NBEMS) is fully committed to holding the NEET-PG 2025 in a single this application is being made only to ensure practical feasibility and safety of the said examination along with the coordination with all the relevant authorities and stakeholders,' NBEMS said. The top court's decision against the two-shift format came on a petition by candidates who reasoned that the questions in the evening shift last year were relatively easier than the first shift. The petitioners, which included individual candidates and the United Doctors Front, questioned why no effort wsas made to identify options to hold the examination in a single shift. NBEMS had initially claimed that it opted for the two-shift system to rule out the possibility of malpractices by unscrupulous elements since the online examination required secured centres.
Hindustan Times
31-05-2025
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SC directs single shift test for NEET-PG
The Supreme Court on Friday directed the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test for postgraduate medical courses (NEET-PG) to be held in a single shift, observing the decision of the National Board of Examination in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) to conduct the examination in two shifts 'creates arbitrariness'. The decision of the court came on multiple petitions filed by candidates appearing for NEET-PG 2025 who sought the examination, scheduled for June 15, be conducted in a single shift. The candidates claimed that in the two-shift model the question papers are set with different difficulty levels which is 'discriminatory to some of the candidates'. A bench headed by justice Vikram Nath said, 'We direct the authorities to hold the examination in one shift and also ensure complete transparency is maintained and secured centres are identified.' The bench, also comprising justices Sanjay Kumar and NV Anjaria, pulled up NBEMS for not identifying enough centres to hold the examination in one shift, saying, 'Holding examination in two shifts is unacceptable.' Senior advocate Maninder Acharya, appearing for the NBEMS, opposed the petitions, saying that holding the exam in a single shift will jeopardise the candidates who have registered for the examination as there is little time left to identify new centres. This year 242,678 candidates have registered for NEET-PG, and finding 'secured' centres with the requisite infrastructure and security arrangements to accommodate these candidates will be a huge challenge, Acharya said. Addressing the concerns expressed by NBEMS, the court said, 'The exam is to be held all over the country. We are not ready to accept that in the entire country, considering the technological advancement we have achieved, the examination body cannot find enough examination centres.' The court ordered NBEMS to identify new examination centres to hold the exam in one shift. 'There are still two weeks for identifying examination centres and holding the exam in one shift. Burn the midnight oil and find the centres,' it said. NBEMS said that the decision to have two shifts was to curb 'malpractices by unscrupulous elements'. The exam is conducted on a computer-based platform and there are no physical answer sheets and question papers for the candidates. NBEMS, however, said there was a possibility of malpractices as the test only contains multiple choice questions (MCQs). The bench, in response said, 'Having two shifts creates arbitrariness and does not allow students to take examination at the same level. It is unfair to have two shifts. Any two examination papers has to have variation.' Acharya informed the court that NBEMS is bound by the top court's orders to hold the examination by June 15, as she sought permission of the court to seek an extension. The bench did not pass any order extending the date. However, it said, 'It would be open for the respondent to seek an extension of time.' The candidates, represented by senior advocate Shikhil Suri and advocate Charu Mathur, told the court that the two-shift examination created a lot of problems for candidates as last year, the paper for the second shift was comparatively easy. Keeping this in mind, last year, the method of normalisation was applied. The petitioners argued that the process for conducting NEET-PG 2025 began from March and despite time being available, authorities have not made any effort to conduct the examination in a single shift. Acharya defended NBEMS's decision, stating that other competitive examinations such as Common Admission Test (CAT) for postgraduate management programs and Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for admission to undergraduate engineering courses are held in multiple shifts. The bench, however, noted that these exams feature over a million candidates, and cannot be compared with NEET-PG which has less than 250,000 applicants. The respondent also said that the petitions are proceeding on a misconception that the question papers for each shift will have a vast difference in difficulty levels. 'Even if the two sets have different difficulty levels, we have a process of normalisation,' Acharya said, adding that any direction passed by the court will impact other entrance examinations conducted on a pattern of multiple shifts. The bench said, 'Normalisation may be applied in exceptional cases, but, not as a matter of routine year after didn't you think of this before? This process started in March.' NBEMS told the court that except for a few candidates, who are before the court, the majority of candidates appearing for the examination do not have any grievance with the two-shift process. The court said, 'Even if we find one candidate raising a legitimate grievance, that is enough for us to step in.' The number of NEET-PG registrants this year has increased 45% from 2020 (167,102 candidates). 'The safety and security of conduct of examinations on a computer-based-platform has its own challenges and examination conducting bodies are required to take all possible measures to prevent use of any unfair means by unscrupulous elements to adopt any kind of malpractices,' NBEMS said in an affidavit filed before the top court. Keeping this in mind, the National Medical Commission (NMC) and the Union ministry of health & family welfare, had decided to conduct NEET PG 2025 examination at limited test centres, similar to the exercise last year, where security and sanctity of examination can be better ensured, it said.
Hindustan Times
15-05-2025
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NEET MDS Results 2025 declared, direct link to check scores here
The National Board of Examination in Medical Sciences, NBEMS, has declared the results of NEET MDS 2025. Candidates who appeared for the exam can download their results from the official website As per the official notice, each and every question asked in question paper of NEET MDS 2025 was reviewed by faculty members from the concerned specialty area after the conduct of the exam to re-check for technical correctness of the questions as well as answer keys. Also read: UPSC exam calendar 2026 released, CSE prelims on May 24, Mains on August 21 All candidates have been awarded full marks for those questions which were found to be technically incorrect, regardless of whether candidates have attempted them or not, the notice added. Additionally, as per NBE, the merit position for All India 50% Quota seats will be declared separately. The final merit list/category wise merit list for State Quota seats will be generated by the States/UT as per their qualifying/eligibility criteria, applicable guidelines/Regulations & reservation policy. Also read: HPBOSE 10th Results 2025 released, here's how to check Himachal Class 10 result at The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for Masters of Dental Surgery (NEET MDS) 2025 exam will be conducted on April 19, 2025. The examination was conducted from 2 PM to 5 PM. The exam was conducted via a Computer-Based Test (CBT) mode. Four marks are allotted for each correct response, whereas one mark is deducted for each negative mark. NEET MDS examination consisted of two papers, Paper-A and Paper-B, with 240 MCQs to be completed in three hours. Also read: HPBOSE 10th Results 2025 declared, 79.8% students pass Himachal Class 10, check details here Paper-A consists of 100 Multiple Choice Questions (Duration 75 minutes) from subjects such as general anatomy including embryology and histology (14 MCQs), general Human Physiology and Biochemistry (14 MCQs), General Medicine(15MCQs), General Surgery (15 MCQs) etc. Paper-B consists of 140 MCQs (Duration 105 minutes) belonging to subjects such as Dental Materials (14 MCQs), Oral Pathology and Oral Microbiology (14 MCQs), Oral Medicine and Radiology (14 MCQs), Periodontology (14 MCQs) etc. Candidates can follow the steps mentioned below to check the NEET MDS Result 2025: For more related details, candidates are advised to visit the official website NEET MDS 2025.
