As many seats became vacant during the PG counselling process held for the previous academic session, the Center on Monday recommended lowering the cut-off scores for admission to PG medical programs for 2022–23. According to official sources cited by PTI, the cut-off marks will be lowered by 25 percentile across all categories. They claim that the choice was made in consideration of the National Medical Commission’s (NMC) suggestions. The sources claim that during the previous session, there were roughly 1,400 open seats in pre- and paraclinical topics.
A decision has been made to lower the cut-off for admission to post-graduate courses for 2022 23 by 25 percentile across all categories, an official source said. “Since such post-graduate seats going vacant is a sheer wastage of resources in a country where postgraduate medical seats are premium,” the source said. The NMC suggested lowering the qualifying percentage for post-graduate programmes for 2022 during a meeting on October 14.
The revised qualifying percentile/cutoff for general category candidates would be 25 percentile, for people with disabilities in the general category (PWD-general) it would be 20 percentile, and for both the SC/ST/OBC and people with disabilities in the SC/ST/OBC category it would be 15 percentile, according to an official source.
