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NEW DELHI: In a move that will bring major relief to students seeking admissions to postgraduate courses, the centre has approved the reduction of cut-off marks for NEET-PG 2022 aspirants by 25 percentile across all categories. The decision would help fill in 8,000-10,000 vacant seats of specialist doctors.
The ministry of health decided to reduce the percentile, keeping in mind the vacant seats in the postgraduate counselling held for the last academic session. The decision was announced after the National Medical Commission (NMC) approved it.
On October 14, the NMC recommended reducing the qualifying percentile for post-graduate courses for 2022.
The revised qualifying percentile/cutoff for general category candidates would be 25 percentile, for people with disabilities in the general category (PWD-general) would be 20 percentile, and 15 percentile for both the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe/Other Backward Caste and people with disabilities in the SC/ST/OBC category.
This year’s National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for Postgraduate (NEET-PG) exam was held on May 21, and results were declared on June 1.
Dr Rohan Krishnan, National President of FAIMA Doctors Association, welcomed the move. “There were a lot of seats that were vacant in the NEET-PG examinations. Usually, the cut-off is reduced every year as per the vacant seats.”
“We had requested officials concerned from the very beginning that the process should not be delayed. We worked proactively. This will help fill the seats. I congratulate the students who will now be eligible to participate in the admission process,” Krishnan told TNIE.
Thousands of seats are left vacant after two counselling rounds, and the rest are filled in the mop-up round.
“We received lots of mails requesting us to work on this issue, and we took this issue up,” he added.
NEW DELHI: In a move that will bring major relief to students seeking admissions to postgraduate courses, the centre has approved the reduction of cut-off marks for NEET-PG 2022 aspirants by 25 percentile across all categories. The decision would help fill in 8,000-10,000 vacant seats of specialist doctors.
The ministry of health decided to reduce the percentile, keeping in mind the vacant seats in the postgraduate counselling held for the last academic session. The decision was announced after the National Medical Commission (NMC) approved it.
On October 14, the NMC recommended reducing the qualifying percentile for post-graduate courses for 2022.
The revised qualifying percentile/cutoff for general category candidates would be 25 percentile, for people with disabilities in the general category (PWD-general) would be 20 percentile, and 15 percentile for both the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe/Other Backward Caste and people with disabilities in the SC/ST/OBC category.
This year’s National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for Postgraduate (NEET-PG) exam was held on May 21, and results were declared on June 1.
Dr Rohan Krishnan, National President of FAIMA Doctors Association, welcomed the move. “There were a lot of seats that were vacant in the NEET-PG examinations. Usually, the cut-off is reduced every year as per the vacant seats.”
“We had requested officials concerned from the very beginning that the process should not be delayed. We worked proactively. This will help fill the seats. I congratulate the students who will now be eligible to participate in the admission process,” Krishnan told TNIE.
Thousands of seats are left vacant after two counselling rounds, and the rest are filled in the mop-up round.
“We received lots of mails requesting us to work on this issue, and we took this issue up,” he added.
