AIIMS NORCET 10 registrations begin, check complete details HERE!

New Delhi: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has invited online applications for the Nursing Officer Recruitment Common Eligibility Test (NORCET) 10 to fill Nursing Officer posts at Level 07 under the 7th Pay Commission for AIIMS New Delhi and other participating AIIMS institutes across the country.

The recruitment drive will be conducted in two stages - Preliminary and Mains - with the Stage I exam scheduled for April 11, 2026, and Stage II on April 30, 2026.

Interested and eligible candidates can submit their applications online till March 16, 2026, through the official AIIMS website.

Eligibility Criteria for appearing in NORCET 

Essential Qualification

(I) a. B.Sc. (Hons.) Nursing / B.Sc. Nursing from an Indian Nursing council/state Nursing council recognized Institute or University

OR

B.Sc. (Post-Certificate) / Post-Basic B.Sc. Nursing from an Indian Nursing Council/State Nursing council recognized Institute/ University.

b. Registered as Nurses & Midwife with State / Indian Nursing Council

OR

(II) a. Diploma in General Nursing Midwifery from an Indian Nursing Council/State Nursing council recognized Institute / Board or Council

b. Registered as Nurses & Midwife in State / Indian Nursing Council.

c. Two Years’ Experience in a minimum 50 bedded Hospital after acquiring the educational qualification mentioned above as applicable for all Participating AIIMS.

Remarks - The required two years of experience as in above is an essential criterion, and to be valid, the experience shall be acquired after obtaining Essential Qualification, i.e. after completing the residency period of the course, declaration of result & registration with the State/Indian Nursing Council.

Age Limit

1. For all AIIMS: Between 18-30 Years. (As per detail on Age relaxation given in General Conditions subject to age Relaxation as per Recruitment rules of respective Institutes/Hospitals.)

2. Age shall be counted on the last date of closing of the application form.

APPLICATION FEES

A) General/OBC Candidates - Rs.3000/- (Rupees Three Thousand only)

B) SC/ST Candidates/EWS - Rs.2400/- (Rupees Twenty-Four Hundred only)

C) Persons with Disabilities - Exempted

The candidate can pay the prescribed application fee through DEBIT CARD/CREDIT CARD/ NETBANKING. Transaction / Processing fee, if any, as applicable, will be payable to the bank by the candidate.

Application fee once remitted shall not be refunded under any circumstances.

Applications without the prescribed fee would not be considered and summarily rejected.

Application Fees of SC/ST candidates who appear in the Examination will be refunded after declaration of results in due course of time after verification of SC/ST certificate.

Online (CBT) for Stage I: NORCET Preliminary, Date: 11th April, 2026 (Saturday),

Online (CBT) for Stage II: NORCET Mains, Date: 30th April, 2026 (Thursday),

IMPORTANT DATES 

Closing Date (Last date) for Online Registration is 16th March, 2026 (Upto 5:00 PM)

IMPORTANT NOTICE

• Please fill the online application carefully. It may not be possible to make changes as indicated.

• All applicant must go through the detailed advertisement and eligibility and ensure that they are eligible in all respect before applying.

• The eligibility of the candidate will be provisionally and merely filling the application form and appearing in examination shall not be treated as validity of eligibility and candidature shall stands cancelled in case any ineligibility detected at any stage of recruitment process including after joining on an offered seat.

• Applicants registered under OTR (One Time Registration)/otherwise in any of the previous examination are mandatorily required to apply using old ID/OTR registration. Application with different registration ID may lead to cancellation of candidature.

GENERAL CONDITIONS

1. The posts carry the usual allowance as admissible to Central Government Servants of similar status stationed at respective cities of respective Institutes/Hospitals.

2. The aspiring applicants satisfying the eligibility criteria in all respect can submit their application only through ON-LINE mode. The Online applications can be done through the website of Aiims from 24.02.2026 to 16.03.2026 upto 5:00 P.M. No documents, including the online application form are required to be sent in Physical form. Any kind of Physical document regarding registration will be treated as null and void and will be destroyed. However, all the applicants are advised to keep a copy of the Application Form with them, along with proof of payment, for their records. Correction in registration will not be considered through any mode i.e. Email/letter. Hence, candidates are advised to fill their registration form carefully as no correction will be allowed after specified dates as per the procedure.

3. Candidates are advised to self-check their eligibility before applying to any post to escape from denial after selection.

4. All applicants must fulfil the essential requirements of the post and other conditions stipulated in the advertisement. They are advised to satisfy themselves before applying that they possess at least the essential qualifications laid down for the post. They must fulfil all the eligibility criteria as of the closing date of online submission of applications, failing which their candidature will be summarily rejected & application fee will be forfeited. Required educational qualification/experience/experience should be completed on or before the last date of the online submission of the application.

5. The crucial date for deciding eligibility in all respect unless otherwise expressly mentioned will be the closing date of the online registration is 16.03.2026. Recruitment Rules of respective AIIMS/Institute will be applicable for essential eligibility criteria at respective participating body and merit of Online (CBT) Examination as per scheme of examination, choices and preferences filled & other rules as applicable.

6. As the examination will be conducted without any scrutiny on eligibility, a candidate will be treated as disqualified from beginning in case ineligibility detected at any stage of recruitment process.

7. Reason for rejection/Status of application: Only for candidates requiring correction during status in Registration, reason will be available from 25.03.2026 to 27.03.2026. Applicants may note that further correspondence will NOT be entertained in this regard. Change in reservation categories applied is not allowed once registration fees are submitted. Candidature will be cancelled in case found incorrect information at any stage of recruitment.

8. Applicants may note that further correspondence will NOT be entertained in this regard. Categories from SC/ST to UR/OBC/EWS cannot be corrected once registration fees are submitted. Candidature will be cancelled in case found incorrect information at any stage of recruitment. The last date of online registration as published shall be treated as the last/closing date for all recruitment purposes under this NORCET unless explicitly mentioned for any requirement for the conduct of NORCET.

9. The On-line portal for application will be closed by 05:00 PM on 16.03.2026. The candidature of applicants who fail to complete the online application by the stipulated date and time will not be considered and rejected. No correspondence in this regard will be entertained.

10. Those applying in response to this advertisement should satisfy themselves regarding their eligibility for the post applied for. They must fulfil all the eligibility criteria as of the closing date of online submission of applications, failing which their application will be summarily rejected. Required educational qualification/experience should be completed on or before the last date of the online submission of the application. In the case of educational qualification, the candidate should have completed the residency period for the desired educational qualification, including internship, on or before the last date of online application submission. Likewise, the candidate must have completed the duration of desired experience on or before the cut-off date, i.e. last date of submission of the online application. Recruitment Rules of respective AIIMS will be applicable for selection and based on merit as per NORCET Score.

11. The candidate must ensure that images of the photo, signature and thumb impression should be as per the guidelines mentioned in the ‘Upload Image Instructions’ given in the General links and are visible clearly in the preview at the time of filling out an application in online mode. If the photo/signature/thumb impression image is not as per instructions given in the ‘Upload Image Instructions’

in that case, your application will be rejected. Due diligence and care should be taken while uploading images of photo, signature and thumb impression.

12. Choice & Preference (Order of choice)

As the NORCET is a common examination for the recruitment of Nursing Officer in various participating organizations, choices will be invited at a later stage from finally qualified candidates as per scheme of NORCET. Any candidate who fails to exercise choice and preference in the given duration will not be considered for selection at any stage after closing date of exercise of choice. In case a candidate, fills choices to only few organizations despite being eligible to fill choices in other organization, will not be considered for selection for those organizations/posts for which no choice/preference is filled, at any stage of recruitment process. Therefore, all candidates who are supposed to fill choices when invited must exercise cautiously as it may lead to denial of appointment without any further notice.

13. Experience Certificate

Certificate(s) from the Head(s) of Organization(s)/Department(s) for the entire experience claimed, clearly mentioning the number of beds, duration of employment (date, month & year) indicating the basic pay / consolidated pay. The certificate(s) should also mention the nature of duties performed/experience obtained in the post(s) with duration(s). Respective AIIMS/Institute reserves the right to verify the experience certificate and employment through Bank Statement/PF/ESIC or any other additional parameters at the discretion of respective competent authority.

14. No Objection Certificate

No Objection Certificate from the present employer (In case of candidates working in Government/Semi or Quasi Government/PSUs/Autonomous Bodies or any institution funded by Government) is mandatory, otherwise, candidature will not be considered for any post. Therefore, candidates are requested to obtain the same before applying. Candidates, who are working as contractual employee in Government/Semi Government/PSUs/Autonomous Bodies or any institution funded by Government, also have to produce NOC mandatorily.

It will be responsibility of candidate to upload correct NOC, where candidature will be cancelled at the document verification stage.

In case a candidate does not upload NOC as required by the date as specified, will not be allowed to appear in examination irrespective of status of application.

15. AGE RELAXATION:

a. Crucial date to determine eligibility in terms of the age of candidates will be the last date for Online submission of applications.

b. SC/ST/OBC candidates who opt to apply for unreserved vacancies will not be eligible for age relaxation or relaxation in cut-off marks otherwise allowed to those belonging to these categories. Further, reserve category candidates (SC/ST/OBC) who become eligible by age relaxation applicable in their case will be considered only for reserved seats of the category to which they belong even if they have the merit to be considered otherwise for UR.

c. In pursuance of guidelines contained in DOPT OM No. 1667569393892 dated 06.09.2022, the age concession to the persons with disability shall be admissible irrespective of the fact whether the post is reserved for person with disability or not, provided the post is identified suitable for relevant category of disability.

d. PWBD candidates with disabilities mentioned in Section 34 (1) of Rights of Persons with Disability Act, 2016, and as identified by the Institute the post of Nursing Officer is identified for OL, AAV, Dw and LC (OL), provided they have benchmark disability of equal to or more than 40%.

e. Age relaxation is permissible to various applicants is as under: -

Note:

1. The upper age limit in respect of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Ex-Servicemen and other special categories of persons etc. shall be relaxable in accordance with the orders issued by the Government of India from time to time.

2. *Unless otherwise indicated in the recruitment rules, age relaxation as mentioned for personnel serving in Central/State Government and Autonomous Institutions of Central & State Govts. and for regular employees of AIIMS who have completed three years of regular service period will be allowed. This clause is not applicable to AIIMS, New Delhi or it may not also be applicable to any other participating Institute if expressly notified on website.

3. *For AIIMS, New Delhi and AIIMS, CAPFIMS unless otherwise indicated in recruitment rules age relaxation as mentioned for personnel serving in only Central Government who have completed three years of regular service period will be allowed.

Pattern & Scheme of Examination

Pattern

NORCET examination will be conducted in two successive stages as described below :

StageI: NORCET Preliminary

Stage II: NORCET Main

1. StageI: NORCET Preliminary

a. Scheme of Examination

i. The NORCET Preliminary stage is a qualifying examination where a candidate who qualifies in the test will be allowed to appear in Stage II: NORCET Main, subject to conditions as described below for preparation of the list of candidates called for Stage II.

ii. NORCET Preliminary will not be used for deciding Merit/Rank for final selection.

iii. The duration of the examination shall be 90 minutes.

iv. 100 MCQs of 100 marks with four alternatives for each question. (20 MCQs related to General Knowledge & Aptitude&80 MCQs related to the syllabus of Nursing courses being taught at the essential qualification level)

v. There will be a negative marking of 1/3 marks for each wrong answer.

vi. Question paper will be divided in 5 sections each of 18 minutes duration, where each section will contain 20 question.

vii. There will be sequence in which each section will be enabled to view/answer questions. Access to visible/active part to view/answer will be disabled after lapse of set duration and next section will be automatically activated/ visible and so on.

viii. Examination will be submitted automatically. Each section will appear one by one during the 90 minutes duration at one time only. You will be allowed only to attempt questions in the currently active section which will remain enable for set time and it will never come back again for any action after moved to next section.

ix. You will not be allowed to view or answer any questions section rather than currently active/visible part. Hence, attempt all possible question during the given time period including review of any skipped question or question marked for review etc.

x. The qualifying marks in the Stage I:NORCET Preliminary Examination will be 50percentiles for UR/EWS, 45percentile for OBC and 40 percentile for SC & ST. For PWBD, an additional 5 percentile relaxation will be given irrespective of the category. Accordingly, qualifying marks for PWBD will be as follows UR/EWS-PWBD- 45 percentile, OBC-PWBD-40 percentile and SC/ST-PWBD-35 percentile). As per DOPT office memorandum No. No.36035/02/2017-Estt (Res) dated 15.01.2018 same relaxed standard should be applied for all the candidates with Benchmark Disabilities whether they belong to Unreserved/SC/ST/OBC. No further relaxation of standards will be considered or admissible in favour of any candidate from any category whatsoever.

b. Preparation of List of Qualified Candidates for Stage II

i. Candidates qualifying as per the scheme of examination in Stage I equal to 5 times the total seats in each category (UR, OBC, SC, ST, EWS) will be called for Stage II subject to the following additional points:

1. All qualified PWBD candidates will be called for Stage II.

2. All tie cases from the qualified candidates with the last candidate in the list of candidates called for Stage II will also be called for Stage II.

3. There may be a situation where a candidate is qualified but not called for Stage II examination.

2. Stage II: NORCET Main.

a. Scheme of Examination

i. The duration of the examination shall be 180 minutes.

ii. 160 MCQs of 160 marks with four alternatives for each question related to the subject covering the entire syllabus of Nursing courses being taught at the essential qualification level focused towards case scenario-based questions for testing nursing skills competency.

iii. There will be a negative marking of 1/3 marks for each wrong answer.

iv. Question paper will be divided in 4 sections of 45 minutes each containing 40 questions.

v. There will be sequence in which each section, which will be enabled to view/answer questions. Access to visible/active part to view/answer will be disabled after the set duration expires and next section will be automatically activated/ visible and so on.

vi. Examination will be submitted automatically after 180 minutes. Each section will appear one by one during180 minutes’ duration at one time only for the set section duration. You will be allowed only to attempt questions in the currently active section which will remain enable for set time and it will never come back again for any action after moved to next section.

vii. You will not be allowed to view or answer any questions section rather than currently active/visible section. Hence attempt all possible question during the given time period including review of any skipped question or question marked for review etc.

viii. The qualifying (percentage) marks in the NORCET Examination will be 50% for UR/EWS, 45% for OBC and 40% for SC & ST.

For PWBD, an additional 5% relaxation will be given irrespective of the category. Accordingly, qualifying marks for PWBD will be as follows UR/EWS-PWBD-45%, OBC-PWBD-40% and SC/ST-PWBD-35%). As per DOPT office memorandum No. No.36035/02/2017-Estt (Res) dated 15.01.2018, the same relaxed standard should be applied for all the candidates with Benchmark Disabilities whether they belong to Unreserved/SC/ST/OBC. No further relaxation of standards will be considered or admissible in favour of any candidate from any category whatsoever.

ix. If a CBT examination is conducted in multiple shifts, the respective normalisation procedure at AIIMS published vide Notice No. 35/2023 dated 20.01.2023 shall be applicable.

b. Resolution of Tie Cases

In cases where more than one candidate secures equal MARKS, tie will be resolved;

(i) First, by using date of birth with older candidates placed higher;

(ii) If not resolved by (i), the number of wrong answers / negative marks will be used, wherein those with fewer wrong answers / negative marks will be placed higher; Merit will be reflected accordingly in the NORCET Score.

a. Syllabus

The syllabus will be in accordance with education qualification and experience as mentioned in the Eligibility Section/Advertisement.

b. Preparation of Merit List & Allocation of Seats (Based on Stage II NORCET Mains)

a) Merit List of qualified candidates shall be prepared based on performance in CBT as per qualifying criteria in Stage II NORCET Mains only. If a CBT examination is conducted in multiple shifts, the respective normalisation procedure at AIIMS published vide Notice No. 35/2023 dated 20.01.2023 shall be applicable.

b) There may be a situation where a candidate is qualified but not eligible for any or all participating Institute/Hospital.

c) Choices will be invited only from qualified, eligible candidates as per applicable eligibility criteria.

d) There will only be one round of allocation of seats in general.

e) Allocation of seats will be made in order of merit out of choices made by the candidate in order of preference.

f) A candidate to whom a seat has been allocated out of any choice filled is mandatorily required to join the allocated seat subject to eligibility as applicable. Hence candidates are advised to fill in only those choices where they will join, as failure to join an allocated seat for any reason(s) shall lead to mandatory cancellation of candidature for that NORCET.

g) There will not be any waiting list for NORCET to fill any remaining advertised vacancy from the pool of remaining candidates in the merit list, as NORCET has been planned to be conducted twice in a year.

h) Detail Information on the allocation process will be published with the invitation of choices after the declaration of a list of qualified candidates.

i) AIIMS reserves the right to invite choices at any time during the process of recruitment.

To view the full official notice, click the link mentioned below- 

https://medicaldialogues.in/pdf_upload/2026/02/25/1771933787527-856734394-329584.pdf