NBE reduces NEET SS 2021 cutoff by 15th percentile for 32 specialities

Written by Barsha Misra Published On 2022-06-17T12:16:39+05:30 | Updated On 17 Jun 2022 2:12 PM IST

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.

Also Read: Relief from Health Ministry: NEET SS 2021 cut-off to be lowered, special mop-up round to be held

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.

Finally the Union Health Ministry has taken cognizance of the matter and writing to the National Medical Commission (NMC) the Health Ministry has announced about its decision of reducing the cut-off and conducting a special mop-up round for filling up the vacant seats.

Therefore, the Health Ministry has directed the Apex Medical Regulator NMC to examine the matter at the earliest and provide comments on the issue.

After the nod from NMC, the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) informed the same to NBEMS. Writing to the Executive Director of NBE, Prof. Dr. Minu Bajpai, MCC mentioned in the letter, "This is in reference to meeting held in MoHFW under the chairmanship of Hon. Minister HFM and attended by AS (ME), ADG (ME), Chairman, NMC and other respectable members. It has been decided to reduce the cut off percentile by 15% for an additional round of Mop-Up Round Counselling to fill up the vacant seats of Super Speciality."

"Hence, it requested to you to provide the new result at the office of the undersigned at the earliest after reduction of percentile. The letter of National Medical Commission regarding the reduction is attached with this letter for your ready reference," further mentioned the letter by Dir (Prof. (Dr.) B. Srinivas), ADG (ME) & Member Secretary of MCC.

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.

Click here to read the NBEMS notice.

Also Read: With Around 1000 seats vacant, Lowering of cutoff, stray vacancy round much needed for NEET SS 2021

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Barsha Misra

Barsha completed her Master's in English from the University of Burdwan, West Bengal in 2018. Having a knack for Journalism she joined Medical Dialogues back in 2020. She mainly covers news about medico legal cases, NMC/DCI updates, medical education issues including the latest updates about medical and dental colleges in India. She can be contacted at editorial@medicaldialogues.in.