Hold NEET PG 2025 in Single-Shift: Doctors move Health Minister, say 96 percent of Aspirants Support Demand
NEET PG 2025 Exam
New Delhi: Highlighting that 96% of the National Eligibility-Entrance Test for Postgraduate (NEET-PG) 2025 examination aspirants want the PG medical entrance exam to be held in a single shift, the United Doctors Front (UDF) has once again urged the Union Health Minister Shri J.P. Nadda to reconsider the decision to conduct NEET-PG 2025 in two shifts.
The association informed that a recent public survey conducted on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), more than 2,513 NEET-PG aspirants anticipated, and a remarkable 96% of respondents demanded that the examination be conducted in a single shift to ensure fairness, transparency and uniform evaluation.
Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that previously, UDF had raised serious concerns about the multiple-shift exam format. Back then, the association had highlighted the issues of normalisation discrepancies, legal complexities, and loss of candidate confidence.
"Learning from the challenges faced in NEET-PG 2024, UDF emphasizes that adopting a One Nation, One Shift approach for NEET-PG 2025 is crucial to uphold the integrity of medical entrance examinations in India," the association mentioned in a recent release.
Commenting on the matter, the National President of UDF, Dr. Lakshya Mittal said, "Aspirants’ voices must be heard. The overwhelming support for a single-shift exam reflects the ground reality. We urge the Health Ministry to intervene immediately and direct the concerned authorities to conduct NEET-PG 2025 in a single shift, restoring trust and fairness in the system."
Further mentioning that UDF remains committed to advocating for the rights of medical students, Dr. Mittal added that he will continue to pursue all possible avenues to ensure justice and transparency for NEET-PG aspirants.
Medical Dialogues reported that doctors across the country were upset over the conduct of the upcoming NEET PG 2025 exam after the NBEMS announced that it would be held in two shifts on June 15, 2025. While the first shift is scheduled from 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM, the second shift is scheduled from 3:30 PM to 7:00 PM.
The doctors expressed their concerns primarily over the normalization process. Even though the normalization formula was introduced for NEET PG 2024 to adjust the scores across different exam shifts to ensure fairness, critics have argued that the process is flawed.
A few candidates who appeared in the second shift of the NEET PG 2024 exam had questioned the normalization formula adopted by NBEMS and further claimed that the board had scammed them in the name of a competitive exam. They pointed out that the Shift 2 paper was tougher compared to Shift 1 and further termed the process of calculating scores as debatable. These concerns were also raised before the Supreme Court, where the aspirants prayed for transparency in the NEET PG 2024 exam.
Recently, a poll conducted by Shiksha.com revealed that when asked about their opinions on the two-shift NEET PG 2025 examination, 89% of the of the respondents in the poll opposed the idea. While 89% of respondents said "No" to the NEET PG exam in two shifts, 9% respondents supported the idea and the remaining 2% were undecided.
Despite the protests and demands from the aspirants to hold the upcoming PG entrance test in a single shift, NBEMS has not yet announced any changes in its plans of holding the exam in double shifts. Meanwhile, the plea alleging lack of transparency in NEET PG 2024 exam is still pending before the Supreme Court.
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