NEET PG 2023: Zero Cut-off Announcement Floods Memes on X;Aspirants Split into Two

Following repeated appeals from medicos and medical associations, the Union Health Ministry has authorised lowering the NEET PG cut-off date to 2023. Candidates who got zero on the revised NEET PG qualifying percentile will be considered for admission to postgraduate (PG) medical courses. Memes began to flood X (previously Twitter) shortly after the news.

The decision to reduce the NEET PG cut-off 2023 to 0 received mixed reactions. The Indian Medical Association (IMA) and the IMA National Zonal coordinator Dhruv Chauhan also had different points of view. While, IMA welcomed the move, the the zonal coordinator of IMA said that the decision “should concern the general public more”

“The current decision to reduce the NEET PG cut off to “- 40 points ” should not worry doctors.” It should concern the broader population, who are still mute on the subject. Dhruv Chauhan tweeted, “Your health is openly traded in the market of private mafias and politicians.”

Lakshya Mittal, national president of the United Doctors Front Association (UDFA), stated that the “revision of NEET PG cut-off to zero should not be viewed negatively because admission to PG seats will still be on the basis of merit alone.”

According to the Times of India, the last rank holder received -40 points. FAIMA physicians’ group, Tamil Nadu minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, and others have called the decision a “mockery of India’s standard of medical education and healthcare system.”

Dhruv Chauhan tweeted, “Meanwhile Aryabhatta to NMC after they decreased NEET PG cut off to “ZERO.”

Some X users believe the government made the move to favour private medical schools.

Udhayanidhi Stalin, a Tamil Nadu politician, stated that NEET is nothing more than a screening process for weeding out poor and vulnerable kids.

NEET PG 2023

The qualifying percentage for the postgraduate medical entrance test NEET PG has been cut to ‘Zero’ by the Medical Council Committee (MCC). The decision was made public by the committee in an official announcement. 

“It is for candidates’ information that the qualifying percentile for PG Courses (Medical/ Dental) for NEET PG Counselling 2023 has been reduced to ‘ZERO’ across all categories by MoHFW,” according to the announcement. 

Following the publication of the announcement, applicants will be able to register for and fill out new forms for Round 3 of PG Counselling. Medical students who have become eligible due to a drop in percentile will be able to re-register for the postgraduate test.

Meanwhile, candidates who have already registered will be able to change their preferences. 

The admission cut-off or qualifying percentile for NEET PG is the last rank at which admission is accepted in medical colleges for postgraduate medical education.

In 2022, the minimum qualification criterion for general category was reduced from 50 percentile to 25 percentile.

The cut-off for students from general category was 275 which was later revised to 201 to accommodate more students in the medical colleges of the country. Since a lot of seats were left vacant after the release of the first cut-off.

For the SC/ST/OBC category students, the reduction was done from 245 to 169 percentile. 

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