New Delhi: The National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) has lowered the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test Postgraduate (NEET PG)
2025 cut-off. The decision comes ahead of the upcoming NEET PG round 3 counselling process which will soon be announced by the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) on its official website, mcc.nic.in.
The reduction in cut-off percentiles is expected to increase the number of eligible candidates for postgraduate medical admissions. While the qualifying percentile has been changed, NBEMS has clarified that there is no change in NEET PG 2025 ranks.
NEET PG 2025 cut-off reduced, more seats added
The cut-off percentile for the General category has been reduced from the 50th percentile to the 7th percentile. For candidates belonging to the Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Other Backward Class (OBC) categories the cut-off has been reduced from the 40th percentile to 0 percentile. This allows candidates with very low or even negative scores with up to -40 marks to qualify for counselling.
Recently, MCC has revised the seat matrix by adding 540 seats. Additionally, 135 new postgraduate medical seats have been introduced taking the total number of PG medical seats in India to 32,215.
West Bengal saw the highest increase in seats with 46 new seats added including those at North Bengal Medical College. Madhya Pradesh followed with 20 additional seats across three medical colleges six seats at Government Medical College, Shivpuri; two at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College; and 12 at Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College, Jabalpur.
NEET PG 2025 revised qualifying percentile
|
Categories |
Minimum Qualifying Criteria |
Cut-off Score as per Minimum Qualifying Criteria |
Revised Minimum Qualifying Criteria |
Revised Cut-off Scores |
|
General, EWS |
50th percentile |
276 |
7th Percentile |
103 |
|
General PwBD |
45th percentile |
255 |
5th Percentile |
90 |
|
SC, ST, OBC (Including PwBD of SC, ST, OBC) |
40th percentile |
235 |
0th Percentile |
-40 |
The MCC NEET PG counselling 2025 round 2 result was announced on December 17. The round 2 seat resignation was extended till December 30. THE NEET PG result 2025 was announced on August 19.
