NBE reduces NEET SS 2021 cutoff by 15th percentile for 32 specialities
New Delhi: Complying with the order of the Union Health Ministry, the National Board of Examinations (NBE) has reduced the cut-off for the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test Super Speciality (NEET-SS) 2021 examination by 15th percentile and published the revised cut-off scores for admission to DM/MCh courses.
"In compliance with MoHFW letter dated 16/06/2022, the minimum qualifying criteria of NEET-SS 2021 has been reduced by 15th percentile," read the NBEMS notice dated 16.06.2022.
Reducing the cut-off score for 32 Specialties, NBE further mentioned in the notice, "Please visit website of Medical Counselling Committee www.mcc.nic.in for information related to counselling for admission to all DM/MCh/DrNB Super Specialty courses."
| S.NO. | SUPERSPECIALTY COURSE/CLUBBED GROUP | CUT OFF SCORE AS PER QUALIFYING CRITERIA AS MENTIONED IN THE INFORMATION BULLETIN | REVISED QUALIFYING CRITERIA (as per MoHFW letter dated 16/06/2022) |
| 1 | CARDIAC ANAESTHESIA/NEURO ANAESTHESIA/ORGAN TRANSPLANT ANAESTHESIA AND CRITICAL CARE/PAEDIATRIC AND NEONATALANAESTHESIA | 206 | 190 |
| 2 | CARDIOLOGY | 152 | 134 |
| 3 | CLINICAL HAEMATOLOGY | 182 | 158 |
| 4 | CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY AND RHEUMATOLOGY | 175 | 149 |
| 5 | CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY | 195 | 183 |
| 6 | CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE | 193 | 179 |
| 7 | ENDOCRINE SURGERY | 176 | 159 |
| 8 | ENDOCRINOLOGY | 156 | 136 |
| 9 | GERIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH | 275 | 168 |
| 10 | GYNAECOLOGICAL ONCOLOGY/REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE AND SURGERY | 205 | 180 |
| 11 | HAND SURGERY | 195 | 184 |
| 12 | HEAD AND NECK SURGERY | 212 | 199 |
| 13 | HEPATO PANCREATO BILIARY SURGERY/ SURGICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY (G.I. SURGERY) | 185 | 163 |
| 14 | HEPATOLOGY | 197 | 175 |
| 15 | INFECTIOUS DISEASES | 214 | 186 |
| 16 | MEDICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY | 170 | 149 |
| 17 | MEDICAL GENETICS | 124 | 111 |
| 18 | MEDICAL ONCOLOGY | 125 | 108 |
| 19 | NEPHROLOGY | 171 | 147 |
| 20 | NEURO SURGERY | 126 | 111 |
| 21 | NEUROLOGY/PAEDIATRIC NEUROLOGY | 162 | 140 |
| 22 | NEURORADIOLOGY/INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY | 250 | 228 |
| 23 | ONCO-PATHOLOGY | 190 | 165 |
| 24 | PAEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY/NEONATOLOGY/PAEDIATRIC GASTROENTEROLOGY/PAEDIATRIC HEPATOLOGY/PAEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY/PAEDIATRIC CRITICAL CARE NEPHROLOGY/PAEDIATRIC | 198 | 176 |
| 25 | PAEDIATRIC ORTHOPAEDICS | 221 | 196 |
| 26 | PAEDIATRIC SURGERY | 178 | 159 |
| 27 | PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY | 163 | 145 |
| 28 | PULMONARY MEDICINE | 214 | 198 |
| 29 | SURGICAL ONCOLOGY | 184 | 165 |
| 30 | UROLOGY (GENITO-URINARY SURGERY) | 167 | 146 |
| 31 | VASCULAR SURGERY/CARDIO VASCULAR AND THORACIC SURGERY/THORACIC SURGERY/PAEDIATRIC CARDIOTHORACIC VASCULAR SURGERY | 154 | 131 |
| 32 | VIROLOGY | 260 | 247 |
This comes after recently the Union Health Ministry took the call for reducing the cut-off and conduct a special mop-up round for filling up around 1,000 vacant seats belonging to several branches of Super-Specialty.
The reason for such a decision by the Health Ministry was the fact that even after the completion of the mop-up counselling for NEET-SS 2021, 930 super specialty seats are still lying vacant including several seats belonging to Government institutes.
Medical Dialogues had recently raised this issue of vacant Super-specialty seats after the completion of all the rounds of NEET-SS 2021 Counselling. Due to the high cut-off marks, around 1,000 Super Specialty Seats are lying vacant. These seats are not only from branches that are least sought after but hundreds of seats belonging to coveted branches such as DM Cardiology (DMCD) and DNBSS Cardiology (DCRD) and those in the super-specializations of Neurology, Gastroenterology, Nephrology even oncology that are also lying vacant.
Blaming the high cut-off marks responsible for the wastage of hundreds of seats, the doctors had been writing to the authorities in this regard and praying for lowering of the cut-off percentile and arranging a stray vacancy round for filling up the vacant seats.
Following this, NBEMS finalised the matter and announced about its decision of reducing the cut-off by 15th percentile. It also published the revised cut-off scores for 32 specialities.
"For any query, please contact NBEMS at 011-45593000 or write to NBEMS at its Communication Web Portal https://exam.natboard.edu.in/communication.php?page=main," mentioned the NBE notice.
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