NEET UG Counselling 2024: Registration, Choice Filling / Locking, Documents Required, Eligibility Criteria declared by MCC

It wouldn’t be wrong to say NEET is one of the toughest exams in India. As you know the re-test for NEET was held on June 23 for 1563 MBBS aspirants affected by the time loss during the previous NEET exam.

NTA i.e. the National Testing Agency announced on the 30th of June 2024 that the next NEET counseling 2024 will be held on the 6th of July in this month. Thus, the MCC i.e. Medical Counselling will start the UG medical counseling for AIQ setas from the 6th of July 2024.

What happened with 1563 Candidates?

This year, on the 5th of May 2024, the UG MBBS entrance exam for over 24 lakh MBBS aspirants took place. During the NEET exam, 1563 candidates at 7 centres faced a time loss due to the wrong distribution of sets. This was a big loss for candidates preparing for medical courses.

Also Read: NEET UG 2024: Results, Controversy

NTA’s Decision

This has become a big controversy and has been a mistake in the management of MBBS throughout the entire history of India. The honourable Supreme Court of India has said it is a black mark in the MBBS in India, and we have to compensate it. The NTA decided to give them grace marks as compensation but it was later recalled.

Supreme Court of India’s Decision

On the other hand, during the honorable Supreme Court of India hearing on the issue of grace marks and other major issues/irregularities surrounding the NEET UG counselling and exam, the center informed that grace marks awarded to those 1563 candidates at 7 centers stand canceled.

The honorable Supreme Court of India verdict that the affected MBBS aspirants will get another opportunity to appear for the NEET exam if they decide not to accept the grace marks. In this case, their original scores will be treated as final without the grace marks offered by the NTA.

The issue is out of 1563 affected candidates, only 813 appeared for the NEET exam. Now what will they do? Are they preparing for the fresh intake or preparing for MBBS abroad?

About NEET UG Counselling

During the same hearing, the National Testing Agency informed the honorable Supreme Court of India that the NEET re-exam will be on the 23rd of June 2024, and the NEET results will be declared by the 30th of June 2024 to facilitate the NEET counseling 2024 process beginning on the 6th of July 2024.

On the other side, the MCC holds NEET counseling 2024 for 15% AIQ seats, and all medical seats of central universities, like AMU, BHU, University of Delhi, JMI faculty of dentistry, and the seats of medical colleges under ESIC and AFMC, Pune. The schedule details are published on mcc.nic.in.

There will be around 6 rounds of NEET counseling in the year 2024 for the UG MBBS program. It will be conducted till Nov 2024. The rounds may vary on the availability of seats for each program. The NEET counseling 2024 process is the way followed for MBBS, BDS, etc. seat allotment. Currently, 109170 MBBS and 27868 BDS seats are available in India. 

NEET UG Counseling 2024: Rounds

There are multiple rounds of NEET counselling in 2024, which are as follows:

Round - 1

• Verification of Tentative Seat: Verification of the tentative seat matrix will be done by the participating medical schools, and National Medical Council (NMC) for 2 days. 
• Registration/Payment: Students can register and make payments in the stipulated time frame mentioned by the NMC, as per the server time. It would be happening for 6 days. 
• Choice Filling/Locking: Students who already have registered are required to submit their choices of medical schools in order of their preference. They can do it for 5 days. 
• Processing of Seat Allotment: 2 days are given by the NMC for the processing of seat allotment.
• Result: The result will be published as per the date set by the NMC.
• Uploading of documents by the candidates on the MCC portal: Candidates are required to upload their educational documents by visiting the MCC portal mentioned hereunder mcc.nic.in 
• Reporting/ Joining: Candidates will have 5 days to report and join.
• Verification of Joined Candidates Data by Institutes Sharing of data by MCC: Thereafter, MCC will share the data of the verified and joined candidates in the next two days. 

Round - 2

• Verification of Tentative Seat
• Registration/Payment
• Choice Filling/Locking
• Processing of Seat Allotment
• Result
• Uploading of documents by the candidates on the MCC portal
• Reporting/ Joining
• Verification of Joined candidates Data by institutes Sharing of data by MCC

Round - 3

• Registration/Payment
• Choice Filling/Locking
• Processing of Seat Allotment
• Result
• Uploading of documents by the candidates on the MCC portal
• Reporting/ Joining
• Verification of Joined candidates Data by institutes Sharing of data by MCC

Round - 4

• Registration/Payment
• Choice Filling/Locking
• Processing of Seat Allotment
• Result
• Reporting/ Joining

After the first 4 rounds of the NEET 2024 counseling session, the authority may conduct additional rounds if required to fill the vacancy. This may increase depending on the availability of seats.

The NEET counselling 2024 is conducted for the BSc Nursing course, BDS and MBBS admission on an AIQ basis accounts for 15%. The admission authorities and state medical counsels are responsible for arranging and organizing this NEET counseling process for 85% of state quota MBBS seats. Only those deserving candidates who qualify for the NEET exam by scoring the cutoff marks are eligible to participate in the counseling process. 

Why Do Most Students Choose MBBS Abroad Instead of India?

This is not one case, but other cases are there for which most Indian medical aspirants choose foreign medical schools to study MBBS.

• Firstly, the seats in government medical schools are limited but the number of aspirants is increasing.
• Secondly, candidates who don’t get good government medical schools in India opt for private medical schools. In these private medical schools fees are exorbitantly high.
• Thirdly, the standard of education in most private medical schools is not up to the mark.
• Fourthly, Top government and private medical schools abroad, such as Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Georgia for MBBS etc. offer quality MBBS programs at low cost.
• Lastly, most foreign medical schools offer MBBS approved by the NMC and WHO. It is globally recognized so one can practice in India or abroad.

Endnote

After the issue with 1563 medical aspirants in 7 centres, the e-test for NEET was held on June 23. But NTA i.e. the National Testing Agency announced on the 30th of June 2024 that the next NEET counseling 2024 will be held on the 6th of July in 2024 for the successful candidates. Thus, the MCC i.e. Medical Counselling will start the UG medical counseling for AIQ setas from the 6th of July 2024.