SC Orders Single Shift for NEET-PG 2025 Exam on June 15
The Supreme Court has told the NBEMS (National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences) to run the NEET-PG 2025 examination in one shift only, instead of the previously planned two shifts. This was a ruling passed on Friday by a bench of three judges comprising Justices Vikram Nath, Sanjay Kumar, and N K Anjaria.
The Court rejected the NBEMS’ plea that there were not enough examination centers to accommodate all candidates of the postgraduate medical entrance test. The Bench observed that conducting examinations in multiple shifts is unfair to some candidates and provides two sets of question papers of varying difficulty levels.
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Justice Nath observed that the NEET-UG itself is very much a single-shift examination with a larger number of candidates. They further inquired why the online mode was necessary for what is essentially a multiple-choice test when the conventional methods might bear more fruit.
The court extended the time to NBEMS by over two weeks to identify centers that are secure and arrange for the examination to be held on June 15. Senior Advocate Maninder Acharya, appearing for NBEMS, stated that the limited online testing infrastructure and security requirements warranted the two-shift system, but the bench did not accept his argument.
The Court further urged that procedures of normalization cannot ensure 100% equivalence between two question papers, and hence, the one isolated single-shift examination is the only fair way to go in maintaining the examination.
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