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NEET PG 2025 Postponed: The National Board of Examination in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) has postponed NEET PG after the Supreme Court order to conduct the test in a single shift.
“Accordingly, NBEMS will conduct NEET-PG in a single shift. NEET-PG scheduled to be held on June 15 has been postponed to arrange for more test centres and required infrastructure,” the board said in a notice.
In its May 30 order on pleas challenging a notification on holding the NEET-PG 2025 in two shifts, the SC had said, “We are not ready to accept that in the entire country and considering the technological advancement in the country, the examining body could not find enough centres to hold the examination in one shift.”
“Holding examinations in two shifts creates arbitrariness and also does not keep all the candidates, who take the examination, at the same level,” it had observed.
Last year, following incidents and rumours of paper leak, the NBEMS had decided to conduct the examination at only the “most reliable” centre. With the number of centres nearly halved to 416, the board had to conduct the examination in two shifts. A normalisation process was followed to ensure that different difficulty levels of the papers in the two shifts do not impact the final ranks of the candidates.
However, many aspirants felt that the process of normalisation was opaque and could create an uneven playing field, especially considering even a single mark can significantly change the ranks.
