National Board of Examinations (NBE) is responsible for conducting NEET PG 2018 examination on January 7, 2018. The exam is held in online mode only. After clearing the exam, students will get admission in various courses like MD/ MS, PG Diploma etc. So, for appearing in the exam, students have to fill the application form which was released on October 31, 2017. Only those students are eligible to apply who have cleared MBBS degree or Provisional MBBS Pass Certificate recognized by medical council act of India. All the eligible students can fill the application form and appear for the exam. They have to download the admit card to sit for the exam. You will get detailed information about NEET PG 2018 through this Article.
Students can download the admit card within 24 hours of registration. The paper is comprised of objective type multiple choice questions. Questions will be asked from the subjects that students have studied during MBBS or BDS.
After the completion of the exam, the result will be soon announced by January 31, 2018. Cut off will also be declared according to the students score in the exam. As per the applicant’s score, they will be called for counselling
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Today is the last day of the registration process of NEET PG counselling 2018. Students who have not registered; Yet has a chance to get registered by 5 pm.
Highlights Of NEET PG 2018
| Date of NEET PG 2018 Exam | January 7, 2018 |
| Conducting Body | National Board of Examination (NBE) |
| Mode of NEET PG 2018 Exam | Computer Based Test |
| Official Website | www.nbe.edu.in |
| Duration of NEET PG 2018 Exam | 3 hours 30 minutes |
| Eligibility | Must have cleared MBBS or equivalent degree |
| Courses Offered | MD/ MD or PG Diploma |
Exam Dates
The following table shows all the important dates related to the various events of the NEET-PG 2018 examination:
| Events | Dates |
| NEET PG 2018 Application form released on | October 31, 2017 |
| Last date to fill the NEET PG 2018 Application form | November 27, 2017 |
| Availability of NEET PG 2018 Admit card | December 31, 2017 |
| NEET PG 2018 Examination Date | January 7, 2018 |
| Declaration of NEET PG 2018 Result | January 23, 2018 |
| NEET PG 2018 Rank Card | February 15, 2018 |
| Declaration of NEET PG 2018 Merit List | February 16, 2018 |
| NEET PG 2018 Counselling | March 2018 |
Eligibility Criteria
It’s important for all the eligible students to check the examination eligibility criteria. If the eligibility criterion does not match then students candidature will be canceled. Following is the explanation of eligibility criteria:
- Students must be Indian National
- Applicants must possess MBBS degree or provisional MBBS pass certificate recognized by MCI
- Students must have completed one year of internship on or before March 31, 2018
- Those who have passed MBBS from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Jammu and Kashmir states are not eligible to apply
Application Form
For registering for the exam, students have to fill and successfully submit the application form. The application form for NEET PG 2018 will be released on October 31, 2017. The registration can be done in online mode only through the website. Following is the step by step process of filling the application form.
Step 1: Registration
- Visit the official website to create a profile by entering the details.
- Entered details are such as students name, gender, parents name, valid email address, valid mobile number etc.
- Click on the submit button
Step 2: Fill the Application Form
- Now by using the login credentials, enter the details in the application form
- Students have to fill the details related to personal, academic and communication
- After verifying the details, click on the Submit button
Step 3: Upload Documents
- Upload the scanned images of photograph, signature, photo ID, SMC/ MCI and other certificates
- Size of the images of photograph and signature should be between 10kb-30kb
- MCI/ SMC certificate size should not be more than 500 kb
- Click on the upload images button
Step 4: Pay the Application fees
- Students can pay the application fees via debit card/ credit card/ net banking/ e-wallet.
- For making the payment, click on the Go for payment button
- After entering the bank details students can pay the application fees.
Application Fee
| Category | Fees |
| General and OBC | INR 3750 |
| SC/ ST/ PWD/ PH | INR 2750 |
Step 5: Final Submission
After paying the application fees, students can take the printout of the confirmation page and keep it safe for their future use.
Admit Card
Admit card is a very important document because without it students cannot enter in the examination hall. Students can download admit card in online mode only by entering the credentials like username and password. It cannot be sent to the student’s address via post or courier.
Students can follow the below steps to download the NEET PG 2018 admit card:
- Visit the official website of NBE i.e. nbe.edu.in
- Click on the NEET PG 2018 Admit card
- Now a login window will appear
- Enter the credentials like username and password
- Click on the login button
After clicking on the button, the admit card will be displayed on the screen. Students can download and take the printout of it for their future reference.
To get detailed information about NEET PG 2018 Admit Card click here
Exam Centre
Students can choose the examination centre as per their preference at the time of filling the application form. But the final allocation is done by the examination conducting authority on the first come first serve basis. Following is the list of exam centres from which students can choose anyone:
| Ahmadabad | Pune | Indore |
| Aurangabad | Ranchi | Jaipur |
| Bangalore | Raipur | Jammu |
| Bhopal | Trivandrum | Jamshedpur |
| Bhubaneswar | Udaipur | Kolkata |
| Chandigarh | Varanasi | Bardoli |
| Chennai | Durgapur | Lucknow |
| Cochin | Kozhikode | Mumbai |
| Coimbatore | Mangalore | Mysore |
| Dehradun | Trichy | Nagpur |
| Greater Noida | Vijayawada | Navi Mumbai |
| Gurugram | Vishakhapatnam | New Delhi |
| Guwahati | Gandhinagar | Noida |
Exam Pattern
Applicants are advised to check the examination pattern in advance before appearing in the exam. After knowing the examination pattern, students will come to know about the type of questions asked in the exam. Following is the detailed explanation of NEET PG 2018 Examination pattern:
- The examination is conducted in online mode only
- The paper is comprised of 300 multiple choice questions
- The paper was only in the English language
- Total time duration given to complete the paper is 3 hours 30 minutes
- For every correct answer, one mark will be awarded and no marks will be deducted for every wrong answer.
The following table shows the subject-wise distribution of questions:
| Subject | Weight-age of questions |
| Anatomy | 15 |
| Physiology | 15 |
| Biochemistry | 15 |
| Pharmacology | 20 |
| Microbiology | 20 |
| Pathology | 25 |
| Forensic Medicine | 10 |
| Social and Preventive Medicine | 25 |
| Medicine, Dermatology and Venereology | 37 |
| Surgery, Orthopaedics, Anaesthesia, & ENT | 46 |
| Radiotherapy & Radiodiagnosis | 12(6+6) |
| Gynaecology & Obstetrics | 25 |
| Paediatrics | 15 |
| Psychiatry | 10 |
| Ophthalmology | 10 |
| Total | 300 |
Exam Pattern Highlights Table
| Mode of examination | Online |
| Number of Questions | 300 |
| Maximum marks | 300 |
| Duration of exam | 3 hours 30 minutes |
Syllabus
NEET PG 2018 examination consists of the syllabus that students have studied in MBBS and BDS programme. The following table shows the important topics of the subjects that students have to prepare for the examination:
| Subjects | Important Topics |
| Pathology | Cell injury |
| Cell death and adaptations | |
| Acute and chronic inflammation | |
| Tissue Repair | |
| Regeneration | |
| Healing and Fibrosis | |
| Hemodynamic Disorders | |
| Thrombosis and shock | |
| Diseases of the immune system Neoplasia | |
| Genetic and Pediatric Diseases | |
| Environmental and Nutritional Diseases | |
| General pathology of Infectious Diseases | |
| The Blood vessels | |
| The Heart | |
| Hematopoietic and lymphoid systems | |
| The lung | |
| The kidney and its collecting system | |
| The oral cavity and Gastrointestinal tract | |
| The liver | |
| Gallbladder and Biliary tract | |
| The pancreas | |
| The male genital system | |
| The female genital system and breast | |
| The Endocrine system | |
| The musculoskeletal system | |
| The skin | |
| The nervous system | |
| Miscellaneous Topics | |
| Pharmacology | General Pharmacological Principles |
| Drugs acting on Autonomic Nervous system | |
| Autacoids and Related Drugs | |
| Respiratory and Related Drugs | |
| Hormones and Related Drugs | |
| Drugs Acting on Central Nervous System | |
| Cardiovascular Drugs | |
| Drugs Acting on kidney | |
| Drugs Affecting Blood and Blood formation | |
| Gastrointestinal Drugs | |
| Antimicrobial Drugs | |
| Chemotherapy of Neoplastic Diseases | |
| Miscellaneous Drugs | |
| Biochemistry | Structures and functions of proteins and Enzymes |
| Bioenergetics and the metabolism of Carbohydrate and lipids | |
| Metabolism of proteins and amino acids | |
| Structures | |
| Function and replication of informational macromolecules | |
| Biochemistry of extracellular and intracellular communication | |
| Nutrition | |
| Digestion and Absorption | |
| Vitamins and minerals | |
| Intracellular traffic and sorting of proteins | |
| Glycoproteins | |
| The extracellular matrix | |
| Muscles and the cytoskeleton | |
| Plasma proteins and immunoglobulins | |
| Homeostasis and thrombosis | |
| Red and white blood cells | |
| Metabolism of xenobiotics | |
| The Human genome project | |
| Miscellaneous Topics | |
| Microbiology | Methods and Techniques |
| Immunology | |
| Bacteriology | |
| Virology | |
| Mycology | |
| Miscellaneous Topics | |
| Orthopaedics | Fractures and Injuries |
| Infections of bones and joints | |
| Bone tumours | |
| CTEV | |
| PIVD | |
| Back pain | |
| Degenerative and metabolic bone disease | |
| Miscellaneous Bone diseases | |
| Preventive and Social Medicine | Man and Medicine: Towards health for all |
| Concept of Health and Diseases | |
| Principles of Epidemiology and Epidemiologic Methods | |
| Screening for Disease | |
| Epidemiology of Communicable Diseases | |
| Epidemiology of chronic Non-Communicable Diseases and Conditions | |
| Health programs in India | |
| Demography and Family planning | |
| Preventive Medicine in Obstetrics Pediatrics and Geriatrics | |
| Nutrition & Health | |
| Social Sciences and Health | |
| Environment and Health | |
| Hospital Waste Management | |
| Disaster Management | |
| Occupational Health | |
| Genetics and Health | |
| Mental Health | |
| Health Information and Basic Medical Statistics | |
| Communication for Health Education | |
| Health Planning and Management | |
| Healthcare of the community | |
| International Health | |
| Miscellaneous Topics | |
| ENT | Diseases of Ear |
| Diseases of Nose and Paranasal Sinuses | |
| Diseases of oral cavity and Salivary Glands | |
| Diseases of pharynx | |
| Diseases of Larynx and trachea | |
| Diseases of Esophagus | |
| Recent advances | |
| Clinical methods in ENT and Neck Masses | |
| Operative surgery | |
| Miscellaneous Topics | |
| Anatomy | The thorax |
| The Abdomen | |
| The Pelvis | |
| The perineum | |
| The upper limb | |
| The lower limb | |
| The Head and Neck | |
| The Back | |
| Miscellaneous Topics | |
| Surgery | Gastrointestinal Surgery |
| Urogenital Surgery | |
| Paediatric Surgery | |
| Hernia | |
| Umbilicus and Abdominal wall Cardiothoracic Surgery | |
| Burns | |
| Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery | |
| Transplantation and oncology | |
| Head Injury | |
| Gynaecology | Diseases & Injury to female genital tract |
| Conception | |
| Birth control and MTP | |
| Trophoblastic diseases | |
| Ectopic gestation and disorders of menstruation | |
| Forensic Medicine | Medical Jurisprudence |
| Autopsy | |
| Death | |
| Post mortem changes | |
| Injuries and wounds | |
| Thermal death | |
| Starvation | |
| Mechanical Asphyxia | |
| Sexual offences and Abortion | |
| Poisoning | |
| Psychotropic drugs | |
| Asphyxiants | |
| Miscellaneous Topics | |
| Psychiatry | Cognitive disorders |
| Schizophrenia | |
| Mood disorders | |
| Anxiety disorders | |
| Adjustment disorders | |
| Somatoform disorders | |
| Sexual disorders | |
| Eating | |
| Sleep and Personality disorder | |
| Impulse control disorders | |
| Miscellaneous Topics | |
| Radiology | Physics and Technique |
| Diagnostic features and signs | |
| Systemic Radiology | |
| Miscellaneous Topics | |
| Radiotherapy | Radiotherapy |
| Chemotherapy | |
| Nuclear medicine | |
| Miscellaneous Topics | |
| Physiology | Digestion and Absorption |
| Respiration | |
| Cardiovascular Physiology | |
| Nervous System | |
| Excretion | |
| Endocrine System | |
| Sensory organs | |
| Muscles | |
| Miscellaneous Topics | |
| Anaesthesia | General Anaesthesia |
| Regional Anaesthesia | |
| Drugs used for Anaesthesia | |
| Anaesthesia in coexisting diseases | |
| Critical Care | |
| Miscellaneous Topics |
Result
After the completion of the exam result has been soon declared on January 23, 2018. Students can check the result online on the official portal of NBE. With the help of the testing ID and date of birth, students can download their result. Following steps help students to download the result:
- Open the official website of NBE
- Click on the NEET PG 2018 Result
- Enter the details such as testing id and date of birth
- Click on the download button
After clicking on the button, the result will be displayed on the screen. Students are advised to download and take the printout of the final score for future use.
Cut off
Cut off marks are the minimum marks scored by the student in order to get admission in the desired course. NBE is responsible for declaring the cut off marks. According to the students cut off marks, they will get admission in respective colleges. Cut off marks will be decided on the basis of various factors which are as following:
- Total number of students appearing in the exam
- Difficulty level of the question paper
- Availability of seats
- Previous year cut off trends
- Total number of students passed the exam
NEET PG 2018 Cut off is tabulated below:
| Category | NEET PG 2018 Cut off |
| Unreserved | 863.6479 |
| Unreserved – Physically Handicapped | 682.3638 |
| OBC (Other Backward Classes) | 842.2654 |
| OBC (Other Backward Classes) -Physically Handicapped | 655.5969 |
| SC (Scheduled Caste) | 655.1937 |
| SC (Scheduled Caste) – Physically Handicapped | 658.5397 |
| ST (Scheduled Tribe) | 655.1766 |
| ST (Scheduled Tribe)- Physically Handicapped | 673.4360 |
Counselling Process
On the basis of students score in the NEET exam a merit list will be prepared. Students can take participate in the NEET counselling according to their rank in the merit list. In the counselling process, students have to fill their college and course choices.
Students must bring the following list of documents at the time of counselling for verification:
- NEET PG 2018 Admit Card and Rank Card
- 12th class mark sheet and passing certificate
- 10th class mark sheet and passing certificate
- Graduation certificate
- Transfer certificate
- Category certificate (if applicable)
- Counselling call letter
- Recent passport size photographs
