BREAKING | NBEMS to publish NEET PG answer key 2025 'shortly' following Supreme Court order

In a historic move, the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) has announced that it will publish the National Eligibility Entrance Test - Postgraduate (NEET PG) answer key 2025 along with the response sheet. NEET PG 2025 answer key and candidates' responses will be displayed on an online portal "shortly", the medical exam board informed.

NBEMS said that it is in the process of developing the online portal to display the answer key and marked responses and is trying to make it live at the "earliest". Reasoning that the sequence of questions within a section in the NEET PG 2025 question paper was shuffled for each candidate and the order of options provided for a question were also different, the board informed that the questions, correct answer key, and responses will be displayed in line with the sequence in the master question paper.

Candidates will be able to access the NEET PG 2025 response sheet and answer key through their applicant login on the index page at NBEMS website.

The decision to make the NEET PG answer key public has been taken following the Supreme Court which directed NBEMS to publish raw scores, answer keys and normalisation formula for transparency in multi-shift NEET PG exam, the board added. Notably, along with the keys and responses, the score given for each of the question as per the scheme of evaluation detailed in the NEET PG 2025 information bulletin will also be mentioned.

NEET PG result 2025 was declared on August 19 for around 2.42 lakh candidates. Dr Pooshan Mohapatra from Cuttack's SCB Medical College turned out to be the NEET PG 2025 topper with 707 marks out of 800. NEET PG 2025 cut-offs have dropped this year.

NBEMS conducted NEET PG 2025 on August 3 in a single shift . The top court had ordered the exam authority to hold the postgraduate medical entrance exam in one shift only citing 'arbitrariness' of the two-shift scheme, after several aspirants filed a petition. Initially scheduled for June, the exam was later postponed to add more examination centres to accommodate the candidates in one sitting.

10 changes in NEET PG 2025

In May this year, the apex court ordered 10 changes in the conduct of exam and NEET PG counselling which included display of the above mentioned details and strict action for seat blocking.

Earlier in April, NBEMS said that the raw score obtained by the candidates will neither be “reported or disclosed” nor it will be used for ranking or qualifying purposes, sparking a controversy.

Thousands of PG medical aspirants and doctors called for a single-shift exam , recalling the “mess” caused by the normalisation method last year. NBEMS introduced the multiple-shift format last year and used the normalisation process adopted by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to determine the percentile scores.