NEET PG Candidates Want Revision of Test City Centres

College Tour Aug-07-2024

NEET-PG is a qualifying examination prescribed as a single entrance examination for admission to various MD/MS and PG diploma courses under Section 61(2) of the National Medical Commission Act, 2019 with Chapter IV Post Graduate Studies. Medical Education Regulations, 2023.

New Delhi: The NEET PG 2024 exam has been full of controversies this year with issues ranging from postponements to the release of revised date sheets. The NEET PG Test City Slip 2024 has been announced by the National Board of Examination for Medical Sci ences (NBEMS) recently. However, some medical students are not happy with the allotment of exam centers far from their homes. Candidates said some centers were up to 1,000 km away, leading to extensive requests to relocate centers to the first preferred city listed on their application forms. It should be noted that the scheme of selection and allocation of test cities is as follows.

The candidate must provide a choice of four preferred test cities where they wish to appear for the test. These test cities will be selected from the available test cities within the state of the postal address given by the candidate in their NEET-PG 2024 application form.
Whenever the number of available testing cities in the State/UT of the mailing address is less than four or the demand for testing locations exceeds the available capacity in the State of the mailing address, the candidate will be offered a choice of nearby testing cities. States/UTs.
The allocation of a test city to a candidate will be made at random from the options offered and these four choices will not be considered to be the order of preference of the test cities.
There will be no testing locations in any of the top four cities due to capacity, transportation, legislation or security reasons. In such cases: The candidate will be allotted a test center at one of the nearest available locations within the State of Correspondence Address or nearby States/UTs.
If it is not possible to allocate a test center within the mailing address of the state or also in a nearby state, the applicant will be allocated a test depending on availability, a facility in any region of the nation.
Candidates who do not provide any test city preferences during this online window will be assigned a test center by NBEMS anywhere in the country.
Test center assignment is subject to availability and NBEMS decisions. NBEMS reserves the right to add a new city (other than those listed above) for the purpose of conducting the exam or to delete an offered city for security and/or logistical reasons.