Who can apply for NEET PG 2025?...
New Delhi- The National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) is conducting the registration process for the National Eligibility and Entrance Test-Postgraduate (NEET PG) exam for the academic year 2025 PG medical admissions. The information bulletin has been released on the official website of NBEMS. All the interested candidates are advised to take note of the eligibility criteria and other important details as mentioned below.
Eligibility Criteria
The eligibility criteria For Indian Medical Graduates to appear in NEET-PG 2025 is as follows:
Candidates who have completed their MBBS from India must:
Possess MBBS degree or Provisional MBBS Pass Certificate recognized as per the provisions of the NMC Act, 2019 and the Post Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2023,
and
Possess Permanent or Provisional registration certificate of MBBS qualification issued by the NMC/ the erstwhile Medical Council of India or State Medical Council,
and
have Completed one year of internship or are likely to complete the internship on or before 31st July 2025, Candidates found to be ineligible at any stage of NEET-PG 2025 will not be permitted to appear in the examination and/or counseling. In an unlikely event of any ineligible candidate appearing and/or being successful in the NEETPG 2025, the results/ candidature of such candidate shall be cancelled and/or are deemed to be cancelled.
Requests for appearing in NEET-PG 2025 from candidates completing internship after 31st July 2025 or having qualifications that are not recognized as per the NMC Act, 2019 and the repealed IMC Act, 1956 shall be summarily rejected. Candidates are further advised not to canvass for the same.
The dates indicated by candidates with regard to 12 months Compulsory Rotating Resident Internship in the application form (i.e. internship starting and completion date) shall be treated as final and candidates will be required to submit the original Compulsory Rotating Resident Internship completion certificate at the time of counseling/admission in allotted Medical College/Institute.
The cut off dates for the recognition of the Medical Colleges, from where the candidates have passed their MBBS Degree Course and completed compulsory rotatory Internship for the year 2025 will be as prescribed by the NMC. The Colleges recognized after the cut- off date prescribed by the NMC will not be considered.
Registration with the NMC/ the erstwhile Medical Council of India or State Medical Council is necessary and its documentary proof should be furnished by the candidates on the day of examination and at the time of counseling/admission.
Some of the Universities/Institutions are having regulations that candidates who are already pursuing the PG Course in their University or in another University are not eligible for admission till they complete the course. The candidates who are already pursuing PG Courses either through All India Quota or State Quota and are applying for a seat under All India Quota / State quota seats may confirm the eligibility conditions of that University in this regard. NBEMS / MoHFW / Designated Counseling Authority shall not be responsible if such candidates are refused for admission. Such candidates may opt for the subject and the college at their own risk and cost.
The definition of NRI for admission to Deemed University shall be as per Hon’ble Supreme Court order dated 22/08/2017 in WP 689/2017. Eligibility of candidates issued admit card for the examination shall be purely provisional. Appearance in NEET-PG 2025 does not confer any automatic rights upon the candidate for admission to MD/MS/PG Diploma courses.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR FOREIGN MEDICAL GRADUATES:
Indian citizens or overseas citizens of India who have obtained their Primary Medical Qualifications from Medical Colleges outside India should have qualified the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (Screening Test) as per Screening Test Regulations, 2002 which is conducted by National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences. Further, they should have been registered with the NMC / the erstwhile Medical Council of India or State Medical Council and should have completed their internship or likely to complete their internship on or before 31st July 2025.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR FOREIGN NATIONALS:
Their basic Medical Qualification, equivalent to MBBS, should be recognized by the NMC.
Foreign Nationals desirous of appearing in NEET-PG and those, who are required to have security clearance as per the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) requirements, shall obtain the security clearance from Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India before applying for NEET-PG.The security clearance shall be required to be submitted while applying for NEET-PG.
The NMC may, on payment of the prescribed fee for registration, grant temporary registration for the duration of the Post Graduate course limited to the medical college/institution to which he/she is admitted for the time being exclusively for pursuing postgraduate studies. Provided further that temporary registration to such foreign national shall be subject to the condition that such person is duly registered with appropriate registering authority in his own country where from he has obtained his Basic Medical qualification, and is duly recognized by the corresponding Medical Council or concerned authority and Permission/No Objection Certificate from the medical council of that country to allow undertaking Post Graduation in India has also been obtained.
Candidates are advised not to canvass with NBEMS for eligibility in NEETPG or issuance of admit card. Queries, if any, can be submitted through Communication Web Portal only. Canvassing in any form shall invite rejection of the application.
SCHEDULE
S.NO | PROCESSES | TIMELINES |
1 | Online Submission of Application Form. | 17th April 2025 (03:00 PM Onwards) to 07th May 2025 (Till 11:55 PM). |
2 | Edit Window for All Payment Success Applications (Any information/documents can be edited except Name, Nationality, Email, Mobile number and Test City). | 09th May 2025 to 13th May 2025 |
3 | Pre-Final Selective Edit Window to rectify Deficient/Incorrect Images -Photograph -Signatures -Thumb Impression. | 17th May 2025 to 21st May 2025 |
4 | Final Selective Edit Window to rectify Deficient / Incorrect Images Photograph Signatures Thumb Impression (No further opportunity shall be given). | 24th May 2025 to 26th May 2025 |
5 | Informing the Test City to the candidates. | 02nd June 2025 |
6 | Issue of Admit Cards. | 11th June 2025 |
7 | Examination Date. | 15th June 2025 |
8 | Declaration of Result | By 15th July 2025 |
9 | Cut-off date for completion of internship towards eligibility for NEET-PG 2025. | 31st July 2025 |
Information for Candidates
NEET-PG 2025 is the eligibility-cum-ranking examination for admission to various MD/MS/PG Diploma courses of 2025-26 admission session. Admissions to Post MBBS DNB Courses, Post MBBS Direct 6 year DrNB courses and NBEMS diploma courses are also undertaken through NEETPG.
NEET-PG 2025 will be conducted by NBEMS. The role of NBEMS is limited to the conduct of NEET-PG, declaration of the result and handing over the result to the designated counseling authority. NBEMS has no role in counseling and allotment of PG seats. Verification of documents and eligibility determination of the candidates shall be undertaken at the time of counseling/admission process by the concerned authority.
Candidate may kindly note that appearance in NEET-PG does not confer any automatic rights to secure a Post graduate MD/MS/Post Graduate Diploma seat. The selection and admission to Postgraduate seats in any medical institutions recognized for running MD/ MS/Post Graduate Diploma courses as per the National Medical Commission (NMC) Act, 2019 and the Post Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2023 is subject to fulfilling the admission criteria, eligibility, medical fitness and such criteria as may be prescribed by the respective universities, medical institutions, the NMC, State/Central Government.
Candidates are advised to read the Information Bulletin carefully and go through the instructions regarding submission of online application form given in the information bulletin as well as on NEET-PG 2025 index page on NBEMS website https://natboard.edu.in before starting online submission process for NEET-PG 2025 .
Candidates are deemed to have read, agreed and accepted the Information Bulletin and the terms and conditions in the Information Bulletin for NEET-PG 2025 on completing the online submission of application form.
Candidate should ensure that all the information entered during the online submission of application form is correct and factual. Information provided by the candidates in the online application form shall be treated as correct. The responsibility of correctness of information in the application form shall be of the concerned candidate. The option of editing certain information entered in the application form shall be available to the candidates during the edit window. NBEMS will not entertain, under any circumstances, any request for change in the information provided by the candidates after closure of the edit window. Please refer Chapter on Instructions to fill Application Form for details regarding Edit Window.
NBEMS itself does not edit /modify/alter any information entered by the candidates at the time of online submission of application form under any circumstances. There is no provision of accessing the application form to make any changes in the information provided in the application form after closure of edit window. Such requests to make any changes shall not be entertained. Candidates, however, shall be able to rectify the deficiencies in their application (if so communicated by NBEMS) regarding images uploaded, by the prescribed cut-off dates.
Please refer Chapter on Instructions to Fill NEET-PG Application Form. Candidates are advised to review their applications submitted and rectify the deficiencies, if found any, within the window as detailed below. Candidates may note that deficiency in the application form pertaining to images uploaded may be communicated to them by NBEMS, however, it shall be the sole responsibility of the applicant to ensure that the application submitted is complete in all aspects as per the information bulletin. If any deficiency in the application which was not communicated by NBEMS to the applicant before conduct of the examination, is noted at any later stage, this would not create any equity in favour of the candidate and confer any rights on to the candidates for grant of eligibility for the examination.
Edit Window: Candidates who have successfully submitted their payment for the application during Application Submission window shall only be allowed to edit their applications during 09th May 2025 to 13th May 2025. No new application can be registered or payment can be made during edit window. However, the balance fee required, if any, in case of change in candidate category and/or PwD status can be paid during the edit window. Any information/document can be changed/corrected during the edit window except for Name, Test City, Nationality, Mobile Number and Email ID. Information can be edited any number of times before the closure of the edit window. The last submitted information will be saved in records.
Final Edit Window: Deficiency related to images uploaded (photograph, Signature, Thumb Impression) shall be intimated to the concerned candidates and same can be corrected during the Pre-Final Selective edit window i.e. 17th May 2025 to 21st May 2025. A list of such applicants who would fail to rectify their images in the application form shall be published on NBEMS website and a FINAL Selective Edit window will be opened from 24th May 2025 to 26th May 2025 for them to enable them to rectify the images as per image upload guidelines. Applications of such candidates who would fail to rectify their images even during this FINAL edit window shall be rejected. No further opportunity shall be given to make corrections.
Candidates are advised to submit the images in their application as per prescribed image upload guidelines. Failure to submit images as per guidelines and/or failure to rectify the images shall invite rejection of the application.
Application for NEET-PG 2025 can only be submitted online through NBEMS website.
There is no other methodology for application submission. Application submitted through any other mode shall be summarily rejected.
A candidate can submit NEET-PG 2025 application form only once. If a candidate is found to have submitted more than one application form for NEET-PG 2025, NBEMS may issue admit card to the application bearing higher order Application number (application ID) and cancel other application(s) forfeiting the fee for them. In an event any unfair practice is detected by NBEMS at any stage of examination/admission process, NBEMS may cancel the candidature of such candidates and debar them from appearing in any examinations conducted by NBEMS as per provisions of the Unfair Means Guidelines.
Candidates who fail to submit duly completed applications with requisite documents and/or fail to rectify the deficiencies in their applications by the last date prescribed for rectification shall be declared ineligible. Admit Card shall not be issued to candidates who are declared ineligible before conduct of examination. In such cases, the entire fees will be forfeited.
Applications of candidates producing false or fabricated information/records will not be considered and such candidates will be further debarred from appearing in the future examinations of NBEMS. Action as deemed appropriate by NBEMS will be taken if false or fabricated records/ information is submitted or any unfair means are used.
Candidates are advised to ensure that the information provided is factual and supported with documents. Columns marked (*) in the application form are mandatory and can not be left blank. In the event of rejection of the application form, no correspondence/request for re-consideration will be entertained.
Candidates should ensure before applying for the examination that their MBBS degree is recognized as per provisions of the NMC Act, 2019 and the Post Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2023. If it is found at any time that MBBS degree is not recognized, the candidature / result of the candidate shall be cancelled/ deemed to be cancelled.
Candidates should go through this bulletin carefully for eligibility criteria before applying. Queries pertaining to eligibility and other issues will only be entertained if the information requested is not given in the bulletin of information or NBEMS website. No Queries of the Guardians/Parents will be entertained on telephone with regard to the eligibility and disclosure of the results.
Submission of incomplete online application form not in accordance with prescribed instructions shall invite rejection of the application. In such cases, the examination fee shall not be refunded.
Candidate found ineligible at any stage of NEET-PG 2025 Examination, will not be permitted to appear in the examination. In an unlikely event of any ineligible candidate appearing and/or passing the NEET-PG 2025 examination, the results/candidature of such candidate shall be cancelled and/or is deemed to be cancelled, even if result has been declared or score card has been issued.
NBEMS reserves the right to withdraw permission, if any, granted inadvertently to any candidate who is not eligible to appear in the NEET-PG 2025 Examinations even though the admit card/roll number has been issued or name/roll number is displayed on NBEMS website.
Fee shall neither be carried forward to a future exam nor refunded under any circumstances. Application once submitted can not be withdrawn.
Candidates’ eligibility is purely provisional & is subjected to the fulfilment of eligibility criteria as prescribed in this Information Bulletin.
Instructions in the Information Bulletin are liable to change based on decisions taken by the NBEMS / MoHFW / NMC / DGHS from time to time.
There is no equity or any rights that are / or deemed to be arising in favour of candidate. Candidates are required to refer to the latest bulletin or corrigendum that may be issued to incorporate these changes. Refer NBEMS website in for latest updates or corrigendum.
The existing schedule, pattern, policy and guidelines are for ready reference only but in no way, they are or are ought to be treated as representative or acknowledgment of fact that NBEMS is bound to follow the same in future.
NBEMS reserves its absolute right to alter, amend, modify or apply any or some of the instructions/ guidelines contained in this information bulletin.
In case of any ambiguity in interpretation of any of the instructions / terms / rules / criteria regarding the determination of eligibility/conduct of examinations / registration of candidates/information contained herein, the interpretation of the NBEMS shall be final and binding in nature. In case of any discrepancy in the information contained in English and Hindi version of the bulletin, the information mentioned in English language shall be considered final.
Request shall not be entertained for change in date/center of examination under any circumstances. Candidates are advised not to canvass for such representation.
Admit Cards for NEET-PG 2025 can be downloaded at NBEMS website from 11th June 2025 onwards. Candidates found ineligible before conduct of the examination shall not be issued admit cards.
Result of NEET-PG 2025 shall be published on NBEMS websites
NEET-PG 2025 shall be conducted by NBEMS at various exam centres engaged for the purpose. Candidates are advised to familiarise themselves with the route and location of the exam centre well in advance to avoid any last minute delay in arrival to the exam centre. Please refer Chapter on details of Test Day Procedures.
The examination test centre staff on duty is authorized to verify the identity of candidates and may take steps to verify and record the identity of candidates. Candidates are required to extend requisite cooperation.
Possession/Use of mobile phones/Electronic devices is strictly prohibited in the premises of NBEMS test Centres. Candidates shall be liable for penal action for Possession/ Use of Mobile phones/ Electronic devices. Resorting to use of any unfair practice in NEET-PG 2025 shall be dealt with as per the Unfair Mean Guidelines of NBEMS. Such candidates shall be imposed academic and/or criminal punishments as may be applicable. Please go through guidelines detailed in Chapter on use of unfair means in the examination.
Demo Test: A demo test shall be available for the benefit of candidates to familiarise themselves with the Computer Based Test format at website Candidates will be able to access the Demo test tentatively from 05th June 2025 onwards.
The candidates should communicate with NBEMS regarding matters related to NEET-PG 2025 as per prescribed Protocols only, detailed under Chapter on Communication Protocols.
Candidates are encouraged to communicate for NEET-PG 2025 through “Helpdesk” tab which can be accessed after the applicant login to its application account. The correspondence through post should be addressed to the Executive Director, National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences, Medical Enclave, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi110029. Candidates are requested to superscribe the envelope with the subject matter of the correspondence for expeditious processing.
The Registration for NEET-PG 2025 at the time of Counseling to be conducted by designated counseling authority will be as per the details of candidates submitted in NBEMS NEET-PG 2025. Hence, candidates are advised to maintain their same Registration details e.g. mobile number, Email ID etc. as provided in the NBEMS NEET-PG 2025 application form.
The jurisdiction for court cases/disputes shall be at New Delhi only.
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