Fourteen candidates who scored zero and thirteen who scored negative in the NEET (PG) exam have been deemed eligible for admission to the nation’s medical PG programmes.
A student with just five points has been admitted to a medical school in Delhi to pursue a doctor of (forensic) medicine degree. Furthermore, students who scored ten on the NEET have secured admissions to PG third-round institutions in Tamil Nadu and Haryana. The majority of these admissions were made possible through the management quota. Even the applicants under the National Quota and the Non-Resident Indian Student Quota have been admitted with lower scores.
An NRI quota student with only 11 marks was admitted to MD Pharmacy seats at a medical school in Ambala. This has also led to increased applications under the NRI Quota. There were about 700 NRI applications, of which 390 were admitted in the third round.
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Education experts have expressed concern over students in specialised fields. Students with scores between 50 and 60 have spots in anaesthesia and gynaecology. Most of these eligible students were announced in the third round. This happened after the union health ministry ordered the implementation of the zero percentile criterion in NEET (PG).
Earlier, the minimum percentile for PG courses in medicine and dentistry was 50 percentile, as set by the National Medical Council (NMC). Last month, it was lowered to the zero percentile.