Medical Entrance

NBEMS declares timetable for NEET MDS, NEET SS 2025; Details inside

NBE has declared the exam calendar for the academic session 2025 including the timetable for NEET MDS, FDST, FAT, NEET SS, DNB, DrNB, FET, and FNB exit examinations

Medical education in India: Costs, seats, controversy, and safety concerns

From rising medical education costs to exam discrepancies. Here is everything you need to know about the state of medical education in India today

Reports alleging paper leak of NEET PG 2024 false, misleading, says govt

The release further stated that the NBEMS has already registered a police complaint against the fraudsters for their attempt to fool the NEET-PG aspirants

After Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, K'taka passes resolution to scrap NEET

Karnataka has the highest number of medical seats in the country in the academic year 2023-24 at 11,745

Scrapping NEET-UG not rational: Centre asks SC not to jeopardise med exam

NEET row: The central government told the Supreme Court that no widespread irregularities were found in the medical entrance exam

FMGE 2024: Admit Card to be out soon at natboard.edu.in, details inside

The Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE) admit cards for the June 2024 session will be released today, July 3, 2024 by the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS)

Tamil Nadu Assembly unanimously passes resolution to scrap NEET exam

NEET row: The abolition of NEET was a cornerstone of DMK's 2021 election promises the resolution now awaits the President's approval

NEET row top 5 updates: NSUI protest, Parliament debate, CBI arrests

TMC and DMK demand the Centre to abolish the NEET exam and revert to the previous system of state medical entrance exams, while Congress asks to raise matter of exam irregularities in the Rajya Sabha

NEET-UG row: Grace marks of 1,563 students scrapped, re-test on June 23

The government's decision follows allegations of irregularities and unfair marking in the nationwide medical entrance exams

Legit compliants on NEET 'irregularities' must be probed: Priyanka

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday slammed the Modi government over alleged irregularities in the NEET medical entrance exam and called for resolution of students' "legitimate complaints" through an investigation. Several aspirants of the medical entrance exam NEET have alleged inflation of marks which led to a record 67 candidates bagging the top rank, including six from the same exam centre. The National Testing Agency (NTA), however, denied any irregularities and said the changes made in the NCERT textbooks and grace marks for losing time at the examination centres are some of the reasons behind the students scoring higher marks. In a post in Hindi on X, Gandhi said, "First the NEET exam paper was leaked and now the students allege that there has been a scam in its results as well. Serious questions are being raised on 6 students of the same centre getting 720 out of 720 marks and many kinds of irregularities are coming to the fore." There are reports of many childr

COMEDK UGET 2024: UGET results will be out soon on official website

Consortium of Medical, Engineering, and Dental Colleges of Karnataka will announce COMEDK UGET Result 2024 on May 24, 2024 at 2 pm today on the official website of COMEDK at comedk.org

PM lays foundation stone of AIIMS in Haryana's Rewari, to cost Rs 1.6K cr

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday laid the foundation stone of an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here. He also dedicated to the nation and laid the foundation stone of multiple development projects related to urban transport, health, rail and tourism sector worth over Rs 9,770 crore. To be built at a cost of about Rs 1,650 crore, the AIIMS-Rewari will be developed on 203 acres of land in Majra Bhalkhi village. The AIIMS-Rewari will have a hospital complex with 720 beds, a medical college with 100 seats, a nursing college with 60 seats, an AYUSH block with 30 beds, residential accommodation for the faculty and staff, hostel accommodation for undergraduate and post-graduate students, a night shelter and a guesthouse etc. Established under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY), the AIIMS-Rewari will provide comprehensive, quality and holistic tertiary-care health services to the people of Haryana. Apart from AIIMS-Rewari, Modi also laid the foundat

Parliamentary standing committee pitches for ramping up medical seats

Panel report recommends faculty development programs, institute for training medical teachers

Unnecessary restriction

Limits on medical colleges in some states should be reconsidered

Parents tell children there's no going back: Police on suicides in Kota

One of the major reasons behind poor mental health of students in this coaching hub that often prompts them to take the extreme step is "parents telling them there is no going back", according to police and district officials attempting preventive measures as record student suicides rock "Kota factory". Top coaching institutes also claim that majority parents refuse to accept feedback provided to them and want their children to continue anyway in their preparation for engineering and medical entrance exams. From reaching out to parents about possible signs of depression in their child, no aptitude for the particular subject or career, inability to live away from home, police and coaching institutes say their communications to parents about such issues are often met with resistance and majority of them refuse to accept these. "Amid our interactions with the students, we found a student who was visibly depressed. I decided to call his father. His response was 'ye to auron ko depress k

AIIMS-Delhi cancels mock NExT exam scheduled for July 28, refund initiated

The AIIMS-Delhi on Wednesday cancelled the mock NExT exam scheduled for July 28 after the National Medical Commission deferred the National Exit Test (NExT) for final year MBBS students of the 2019 batch. In a notice, the AIIMS said the process to refund registration fees of candidates for the mock test has been initiated. The NMC on July 13 said the NExT exam has been deferred till further directions from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The NExT shall form the basis of certifying the eligibility of a medical graduate to register to practice the modern system of medicine in India and therefore serve as a licentiate examination. It will also form the basis for determining the eligibility and ranking for admission of those desirous of pursuing further postgraduate medical education in the country in broad medical specialities and therefore serve as an entrance examination for admission to courses of PG medical education. The AIIMS of Wednesday said, "In reference to the .

Health ministry asks NMC to waive fees for mock NExT to be held on July 28

Deliberations have begun at the National Medical Commission (NMC) after the Union health ministry asked it to consider waiving the fees for the mock National Exit Test (NExT) to be held on July 28 for the 2019 batch of final-year MBBS students across the country. The NExT, scheduled for July 28, will be conducted by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi. According to a notification issued by the premier medical institute last week, "General" category and OBC candidates will have to pay Rs 2,000 each to appear in the mock test, while an SC, ST or EWS applicant will have to pay Rs 1,000. Persons with benchmark disabilities will not have to pay any fee to appear in the examination. The AIIMS, Delhi has been entrusted with the job of conducting the mock test. It will be a computer-based examination consisting of multiple-choice questions, sources said. The aim of conducting the mock test is to familiarise the prospective candidates with the computer-based test, ..

NMC proposes common counselling for admissions to graduate courses in India

The National Medical Commission in its new regulations has proposed a common counselling for admissions to graduate courses at all medical institutions in the country on the basis of the NEET-UG merit list. These new Regulations are called Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2023 or GMER-23. "Without prejudice to anything stated in the present Regulations or other NMC Regulations, there shall be common counselling for admission to graduate courses in medicine for all Medical Institutions in India based on the merit list of the NEET-UG," the NMC in a gazette notification on June 2 said. Counselling shall entirely be based on the seat matrix provided by NMC, provided the common counselling may have multiple rounds as may be necessary, it stated. The Under-Graduate Medical Education Board (UGMEB) shall publish guidelines for the conduct of common counselling, and the designated authority under section 17 below shall conduct the counselling in conformity with the published ...

Delhi HC asks Centre to take decision on filling up MBBS seats for PWDs

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to take a policy decision on a representation to fill up the vacant seats reserved in medical colleges for those suffering from benchmark disability by taking in candidates who fall short of the threshold but are persons with disabilities (PWD). A bench headed by Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma also asked the Centre to respond to a petition filed by an MBBS aspirant having less than benchmark disability who sought admission in a medical college against one of the unfilled seats reserved for PWD. The petitioner, who has a permanent locomotor disability, scored 96.06 percentile in NEET-UG 2022 and was found to be short of the 40 per cent threshold prescribed for a benchmark disability a precondition for claiming reservation in education. The petitioner said it will be unfair to grant a seat earmarked for candidates with benchmark disabilities to a candidate without any disability by converting them into general category seats. UOI

Chhattisgarh NEET UG Counselling 2022 list: Here's all you need to know

The Directorate of Medical Education, Chhattisgarh has announced the allotment result for Chhattisgarh National Eligibility Entrance Test for Undergraduate (NEET-UG) 2022 counselling for round 1