Bhopal: National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences has lowered the par for filling of vacant PG seats. A drop in percentile is by 15 across all categories. It would impact around 300 vacant PG seats in Madhya Pradesh. Most of the seats are non-clinical.
‘Percentile has been reduced by 15 points across all categories i.e the qualifying percentile for General category has been reduced to 35th percentile, for General PwD to 30th percentile and for Reserved category (SC/ST/OBC) will be reduced to 25th percentile’, said a DGHS order of March 12. In effect for candidates of general category, admission could be from 35 percentile. Earlier this limit was 50 percentile. Mop up round percentile for would be 25 percentile for OBC, SC and ST category students. Whereas earlier this limit was fixed at 45 and 40 percentile respectively.
In MP after the second round of seat allotment, there were 254 seats vacant. According to an estimate more than 300 seats are vacant in all the medical colleges, hospitals across MP. The lowering of par is taking place for a second consecutive year, according to DME sources. NBE had reduced percentile less after two rounds, last year.
There is a difference between percentile and percentage. The eligibility criteria for admission to NEET exam is decided on the basis of percentile and not percentage. Percentile is an indication of the number of people you are ahead of, while percentage refers to the absolute marks that you have scored. For instance, if minimum qualifying percentile for a category is 45th percentile, it means that the candidate belonging to that category should score marks such that his/her marks are higher than at least 45% of the candidates appearing in the exam.
The mop up round of NEET PG counseling in MP has been stuck due to a petition in the MP High Court.
Another demand on the horizon is to reduce percentile made in Ayush PG too. On the lines of NEET PG, spokesperson of MP AYUSH Medical Officers Association Dr Rakesh Pandey has demanded that the percentile in AYUSH PG should be reduced so that the vacant seats in AYUSH can be filled on time. He said that every year seats in AYUSH colleges were not being filled due to high percentile.
A separate handbook informing details of the counseling process and applicable reservation is released counseling authority for NEET-PG 2022. Earlier, the National Medical Commission (NMC) of the Under Graduate Medical Education Board has removed the fixed upper age limit for appearing in the NEET-UG examination.
