NEET PG 2024 to be held in 185 cities; exam city selection facility begins tomorrow

NEW DELHI: The National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) announced that National Eligibility Entrance Test - Postgraduate (NEET PG) 2024 will be conducted in 185 cities across the country for admission to PG medical programmes. The medical board will open the window to select NEET PG 2024 test city tomorrow, July 19. Registered candidates will have to select a fresh exam city by visiting natboard.edu.in, nbe.edu.in. NEET PG 2024 is scheduled to take place on August 11 in two shifts.

“On account of additional security measures being taken by NBEMS and MoHFW (Govt. of India), this examination shall now be conducted in 185 test cities across the country,” said NBEMS in an official notice. “The test city and test centre communicated in the admit cards issued earlier for NEET PG 2024 which was to be held on 23rd June 2024 shall no longer be valid,” it added. NBEMS has issued the list of examination cities where the exam will be conducted.

The last date to submit choices of preferred NEET PG exam cities 2024 is July 22, till 11:55 pm. Applicants will require their login credentials to access the window.

NBEMS informed that candidates will be informed about the allotted exam city via email on July 29 and NEET PG 2024 admit card will be issued on August 8. Students will not be allowed to choose their exam shifts. The board will announce exam timings of both the shifts soon.

NEET PG 2024: City selection, allocation scheme

A candidate will be allotted examination city based on the following conditions:

• Candidates will have to provide choices of four test cities among the available cities within the state of correspondence address.
• Wherever the number of available test cities in a state or UT of correspondence address is less than four or the demand of testing seats is exceeding the available capacity in the state, the candidate shall be offered to choose from the test cities of nearby states or UTs.
• A test city will be allocated randomly to a candidate from the choices provided, and these four choices will not be considered as an order of preference of test cities.
• It is possible that a test center cannot be provided in any of the four preferred test cities due to reasons such as overcapacity, logistical, administrative, or security reasons. In that case, the candidate will be allocated a test center in one of the nearest available locations within the state of correspondence address or in nearby states. If no test center can be allocated within the state of correspondence address or in a nearby state as well, the applicant shall be allocated a test center in any part of the country based on availability.
• Candidates who don’t provide exam city preferences during this online window shall be allocated a test centre by NBEMS anywhere in the country.
• The allocation of the test center is subject to availability and the decisions made by NBEMS. NBEMS reserves its right to add a new city (other than those listed above) for conduct of examination or to delete an offered city due to security and/or logistic reasons.
• Candidate shall not be entitled to claim any changes in the preferred test city choices given, after submitting the form. Further, the form shall not be accessible to edit after being submitted once or after the deadline.