Percentile score to decide ranking in NEET UG 2012

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Tue, Nov 08, 2011

The first ever common entrance test for medical course -NEET UG-  will be an objective type questions and a percentile score -first of its kind in medical exams - will determine the merit of all NEET MBBS applications. A decision taken in a metting of Medical Council Of India's Governors.

This is the first instance that a merit list will be prepared on the basis of percentile scores of candidates in medical entrance test, unlike in the past when percentage scores were taken into account to prepare the merit list.

The Medical Council of India (MCI), which will hold the all-India medical entrance test next year in the month of May in collaboration with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), has also decided to keep a cut-off of percentile scores of all applicants to determine the eligible candidates for admission to medical colleges in the country.