The National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) has revised the qualifying percentiles for NEET-PG 2025 admissions to ensure that the 18,000 seats lying vacant get filled.
The board has reduced the qualifying percentile for NEET-PG 2025 for reserved categories from 40 percentile to zero percentile, and for general category, from 50 percentile to seven percentile, according to a notice published by NBEMS on Tuesday.
The decision follows the completion of two rounds of counselling.
Sources say transparency and fairness will continue to remain central to the selection process, with allotments made only through authorised counselling mechanisms and no direct or discretionary admissions permitted.
Inter-se merit and choice-based allocation will continue to guide seat distribution, they added, and said there will be no dilution of academic standards so that the revised percentile merely expands eligibility among already-qualified MBBS doctors.
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The Indian Medical Association (IMA) had formally requested a revision of the qualifying cut-off on January 12, citing the need to prevent seat wastage and strengthen healthcare services.
The revision is therefore aimed at ensuring optimal utilisation of available seats to expand India’s pool of trained medical specialists, since leaving such seats vacant undermines efforts to improve healthcare delivery and results in the loss of valuable educational resources, the sources said.
NEET-PG serves as a ranking mechanism to facilitate transparent, merit-based allocation of seats through centralised counselling.
While the previous percentile thresholds had restricted the pool of eligible candidates despite the availability of seats, official sources said the admissions still remain strictly merit-based, determined by NEET-PG rank and candidate preferences.
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