NEET PG 2025 transparency plea in Supreme Court- Next hearing on November 7
Supreme Court of India
New Delhi: The pending plea seeking transparency in the National Eligibility-Entrance Test Postgraduate (NEET PG) 2025 examination is likely to be heard by the Supreme Court on 7th November, 2025.
Both the pleas filed by the United Doctors' Front (UDF) and a group of NEET-PG 2025 aspirants who challenged the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences' (NBEMS) mechanism of disclosing the answer keys have been listed for a further hearing on 07.11.2025.
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."
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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 the 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. During a previous hearing of the case, the Supreme Court bench had questioned the intent of the petitioners.
Meanwhile, another plea by UDF was filed earlier this year, and it had challenged the NBE's decision of NEET PG 2025 examination in two shifts and the normalisation formula adopted by NBE. Previously, the Supreme Court had directed NBE to hold the NEET PG 2025 exam in a single shift and it had earlier clarified that the issue related to the second relief claim would be considered after the conclusion of the examinations.
During the hearing of the case on 26.09.2025, the Apex Court had directed the authorities to file their counter-affidavits within four weeks. "Rejoinder affidavits, if any, shall also be filed within two weeks thereafter. Let all the petitions be listed after six weeks on a non-miscellaneous day," ordered the Apex Court bench on September 26.
Meanwhile, the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) recently announced the tentative schedule for the NEET PG online counselling for the academic year 2025 and seat allotment process for 50 percent All India Quota (AIQ), 100 percent Deemed/Central Universities, and AFMS institutions.
The counselling will be conducted in four rounds, i.e. Round 1, Round 2, Round 3, and the Online Stray Vacancy Round, starting from October 17, 2025, and continuing until January 15, 2026.
According to the schedule, the NEET PG 2025 round 1 Counselling registration process and choice filling and locking have already begun and will end on 5th November 2025. Following this, the seat allotment process will commence from 6th November 2025 and the result will be declared on 8th November 2025.
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