NEET UG 2024: NMC To Conduct Common Counselling From 2024

National Medical Commission (NMC), has announced the common counselling will take place from 2024 onwards. As per NMC’s Graduate Medical Education Regulations (GMER) states that the admission process will be held from 1st till 30th August 2023, under any circumstances. For the year 2024, NEET 2024 exam will be organized by NTA.

As per NMC’s new guidelines - GMER  2023 have suggested a common procedure for NEET UG counselling to take place for All India Quota (AIQ) & State quota seats. Along with this, NMC has also decided to scrap the concept of supplementary batches for MBBS students.

NMC Scraps MBBS Supplementary Batches:
Students who have failed the exam will still be allowed to appear for the supplementary examination. The NMC have also directed the authorities to conduct these universities exams 3-6 weeks after result announcement. 

The GMER were issued earlier this month. Under this, NMC have advised that Counselling for AIQ & State quota seats will take place under common platform.

As per GMER-23 norms, NMC also informed that if there is a tie in the NEET UG marks, the individual scores in PCB subjects will be taken into consideration.

As per latest reports, an official from NMC said that a new software might be needed for conducting common counselling which is under the process currently. However, a conversation is going on between the Health Ministry & States to bring the NEET counselling process on the same portal.

UGMEB Role for common counselling:
Further, all medical institutions will use a common counselling process on the basis of NEET UG merit list. Also, every medical institution must give the Undergraduate Medical Education Board (UGMEB) the final list of accepted students within a week at last day of enrolment.

The regulation also mentioned, “ The UGMEB is responsible for publishing the model curriculum & outcome objective on the NMC website, which will serve as a foundation for development of detailed medical curricula by respective universities. Additional choice based credit course of limited duration will be offered alongside the NMC curriculum”.

NMC Revised Age Criteria:
According to newly notified, GMER-23 released on June 2, applying candidates must have completed 17 years of age on or before 31st January of the year of admission to UG medical courses.

As per last year, To be eligible, the minimum age limit was December 31st of year of admission. 

Apart from this, students must have qualified their 10+2 or equivalent exam with Physics, Chemistry, Biology or Biotechnology or English subjects to be eligible for NEET UG 2024.