New Delhi- The National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) is currently conducting the registration process for the National Eligibility and Entrance Test-Postgraduate (NEET PG) exam for the  academic year 2025 PG medical admissions. The information bulletin has been released on the official website of NBEMS. All the interested candidates are advised to take note of the scheme of examination and other important details as mentioned below.

Scheme of NEET-PG 2025

NEET-PG 2025 shall be conducted on 15th June 2025 through computerbased examination in a single day. There will be Two examination shifts on 15th June 2025. Candidates will be allotted to one of the two shifts by NBEMS.

The candidates shall not be able to exercise the choice of shift (Morning or Afternoon) in which they shall be allowed to take the examination. The allotment of the shifts to the candidates will be done by NBEMS purely randomly.

Syllabus : The syllabus for the exam shall comprise of subject/knowledge area as per Graduate Medical Education Regulations issued by the National Medical Commission/ the erstwhile Medical Council of India.

The examination shall be a multiple-choice questions based test delivered using computers network (CBT) as per scheme prescribed.

The exam comprises of 200 Multiple Choice Questions with each question having 4 response options/distractors in English language only. Candidates are required to select the correct/best/most appropriate response/answer out of the 4 response options provided in each question. Time allotted is 3 hrs 30 minutes.

Marking Scheme: Allocation of marks for each MCQ shall be as follows:

There shall be 25% negative marking for incorrect answers. No marks will be deducted for unattempted questions.

During the examination candidates are given an option to mark any question, whether attempted or not, for review which means that candidate has been given an option to go through these questions again before the examination time ends. Candidates may note that such questions which are marked for review shall be evaluated as per the marking scheme mentioned above.

The question paper for NEET-PG will be divided into five time bound sections, namely Group A, B, C,D & E.
The questions from subjects of MBBS curriculum shall be distributed across these five sections of 40 questions each. Each section will have 42 minutes of time allotted for the section. Candidates would be restricted to proceed to the next section till completion of the allotted time of the previous section and candidates would not be allowed to review the questions/ modify the responses of a section after the completion of the allotted time of that section. Questions of the next section will start automatically after the completion of the allotted time of the previous section.

*The actual number of such time-restricted sections may vary based on the total number of questions in the question paper and operational feasibility in making such sections.

Allocation of time for NEET-PG 2025 shall be as follows: