NEET SS 2021 cut-off 15% lower, health ministry asks NBE to conduct special mop-up round for vacant seats

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare had directed the National Board of Examination in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) to reduce the cut-off percentile. National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test Super Specialty (NEET SS) 2021. As a result, the cut-off has come down by 15 percent.

In the letter written by the Health Ministry, the National Medical Commission has also been directed to conduct a special mop-up round for enrollment of students on the approximately 930 vacant seats left after the mop-up counselling. NBE had declared the result of NEET-SS 2021 on February 4 this year.

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The official notification is available for all to view on the website natboard.edu.in. “In compliance with MoHFW letter dated 16/06/2022, the minimum qualifying criteria of NEET-SS 2021 has been reduced by 15 per cent,” the notice shared by NBEMS said.

it comes after union of all India The Medical Association (FAIMA) has written to the Union Health Ministry seeking reduction in the cut-off percentile for NEET SS 2021 counseling in the mop up round. The association had said that many doctors would not be able to meet the existing 50th percentile cut off marks and that would not waste even a year of these doctors. It will also leave a large number of vacant seats.

Meanwhile, the NEET SS 2022 dates are going to be announced very soon. Earlier, NBEMS NEET SS 2022 scheduled for June 18 and 19, It had subsequently announced, ‘Continuing the NBEMS notice dated 01.11.2021, under which the tentative schedule for conduct of NEET-SS 2022 was notified, all the candidates desirous of appearing in NEET-SS 2022 are hereby informed. It is done that the dates for conducting NEET-SS. 2022 is being revised. The new dates for the conduct of NEET-SS 2022 will be notified in due course.

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NEET-SS 2022 aspirants were hesitant to accept the new exam pattern introduced this year. they filed a petition in the Supreme Court That the previous pattern had 40 per cent mix of questions from all broad specialties and 60 per cent critical care, giving an equal playing field to the students. But with the new pattern candidates from broad specialties are forced to write a single paper with 100 percent questions from General Medicine.

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