Big Breaking! NEET-PG 2025 Can’t Be Held In Two Shifts: Supreme Court Directs for Single Shift Exam

A bench of Justice Vikram Nath, Justice Sanjay Kumar, and Justice NV Anjaria in their latest court hearing at the Supreme Court of India directed the National Board of Examination (NBE) not to conduct NEET-PG 2025 in two shifts. The court mentioned that the NBE must make arrangements to conduct the NEET PG Exam 2025 in a single shift to ensure more transparency. The court also observed that there is still time in the conduct of the exam; therefore, the organizing body can make the necessary arrangements.

The court in its order mentioned, “Holding examination in two shifts creates arbitrariness and also does not keep all the candidates at the same level. Any two question papers can never be said to be of an identical level of difficulty or ease. There has to be a variation“.

To the remark of NBE stating that there are not enough exam centers to conduct the exam in a single shift, the court stated, “The exam is to be held all over the country, not just one city. We are not ready to accept that in the entire country, and considering the technological advancements in this country, the examining body could not find enough centres to hold the examination and one shift.”

To counter the NBE’s remark that normalisation is applied to make the levels of both papers the same, the Court stated, “Normalisation may be applied in exceptional cases but not in a routine manner year after year“.

It is to be noted that the NEET PG Exam 2025 is scheduled for June 15, 2025 and there are still 2 weeks left for the NBE to identify and implement the necessary arrangements.

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