NEET PG 2025: MCC to release Counselling Dates Soon, Supreme Court to hear Transparency Plea Next Week
New Delhi: The counselling for the National Eligibility-Entrance Test Postgraduate (NEET-PG) 2025 examination is going to commence soon, as the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) is expected to announce the NEET PG 2025 counselling schedule for 50% All India Quota (AIQ) seats any day.
Meanwhile, the plea challenging the National Board of Examinations of Medical Sciences' method of releasing the NEET PG 2025 examination is still pending, and the Supreme Court has adjourned the plea, which sought transparency in the PG medical entrance exam, for a further hearing next week.
Recently, the plea sought an urgent hearing, citing that the MCC counselling is set to commence on or after September 5, 2025. Questioning the intent of the petitioners, the top court bench adjourned the matter to next week for further hearing.
Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that a group of NEET-PG 2025 aspirants filed a plea before the Supreme Court challenging the "corrective notice" issued by the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) on August 21.
The plea claimed that the new disclosure mechanism of answer keys, as announced by NBEMS, is "opaque, unintelligible and incapable of meaningful verification."
In the notice dated 21.08.2025, NBEMS mentioned that the sequence of questions asked within a section of the Question paper of NEET-PG 2025 is shuffled for different candidates, and the order of four options for a question are also shuffled for different candidates. Therefore, NBE had decided that the questions, correct answer key and responses marked shall be displayed as per the sequence in Master set of Question Paper used for NEET-PG 2025.
When the matter came up for hearing before the top court bench comprising the Chief Justice and Justice K. Vinod Chandran on September 1, 2025, the bench noted that the plea involved the interpretation of the order passed by the Apex Court on 29.04.2025. Accordingly, the bench directed to place the matter before the bench presided over by Justice J.B.Pardiwala.
In the order dated 29.04.2025, the Apex Court bench comprising Justice J.B.Pardiwala and Justice R. Mahadevan had issued 10-point directives to reform the National Eligibility-Entrance Test Postgraduate (NEET-PG) exam and the bench had also directed the National Board of Examinations (NBE) to publish the raw scores, answer keys, and normalisation formula for the NEET PG exam.
After several conflicts and court proceedings, this year, the NEET PG exam was held on August 3, 2025 and the results of the exam was declared on August 19, 2025.
