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The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test Postgraduate (NEET PG) will be conducted on August 3, 2025 in a single shift. The Supreme Court today, June 6, allowed the conducting body, the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS), a time extension.
A bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Augustine George Masih, which initially questioned the more than two months sought by the NBE for holding the examination, said the reasons cited for holding NEET PG 2025 on August 3 appear to be bonafide. The top court, however, made it clear no further time will be granted to NBE for holding NEET PG 2025 examination.
The NBE contended that as per the May 30 order of the top court, the examination has to be held in one shift and, therefore, for holding the examination at one go, around 1,000 examination centres were needed. The NBE’s plea said it would hold the examination, scheduled to take place on June 15, between 9 am and 12.30 pm on August 3, which was the earliest possible date given by their technology partner –Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS).
Among other things, the NBE has sought the top court’s “permission to schedule the NEET PG 2025 on August 3, which is the earliest possible available date given by its technology partner TCS in accordance with the directions passed by this vide order dated May 30, 2025”.
The court, on May 30, ordered a single-shift exam, but granted permission for the NBE to seek a postponement. NEET PG 2025 was initially supposed to be held on June 15 in two shifts. The NBEMS informed the Supreme Court that it needs more time to arrange resources for the NEET PG exam, citing the need for over 1,000 centers across 250 cities and nearly 60,000 personnel, including invigilators, system operators, and security staff, due to the exam’s computer-based format.
The National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) on March announced that NEET PG 2025 will be held in two shifts, following last year’s format. Aspirants were concerned that multiple shifts may create unevenness due to potential differences in question paper difficulty levels, affecting some students’ performance. Candidates who appeared in NEET PG exam in 2024 had raised concerns on transparency of results and normalisation process. The petitioners had demanded that NBE should release the NEET PG answer key, response sheets, raw and pre-normalised scores and normalised results of all shifts. They have also demanded that the release of the NEET PG answer keys, question papers should become a standard practice to ensure transparency. Petitioners had also requested the Court to suspend the counselling process till all concerns are addressed.
Last year, for the first time, NEET PG was held in two shifts instead of one. The exam took place on August 11, with sessions from 9 am to 12.30 pm and 3.30 pm to 7 pm.
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Candidates were randomly assigned shifts to ensure equal group sizes and minimize bias. Due to this change, the Board implemented a normalization process. Results were based on raw scores and percentiles calculated up to seven decimal places. In case of ties, older candidates were ranked higher. The final merit list was determined by percentile scores across all shifts.
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