NEET 2023: Counselling Information

Today, numerous candidates aim to qualify NEET and become medical practitioners. Lakhs of candidates apply for NEET every year for undergraduate as well as postgraduate courses. Similarly, in the current year, the NEET PG exam has been conducted on 5th March and the counselling for NEET PG 2023 is expected to be commenced in July whereas the NEET UG exam is going to be conducted on 7th May 2023.

With NEET 2023, medical aspirants will be able to grab seats in their desired institutes and courses. The admissions will be done subsequently. 

Counselling Information

The counselling takes months to complete with all the rounds. All the rounds are conducted by the counselling authority i.e. MCC (Medical Counselling Committee) to admit candidates in UG as well as PG medical courses.

NEET counselling process consists of four rounds such as Round 1, Round 2, Mop up round and Stray Vacancy round respectively. Below is a brief description of all the rounds to make you aware of the procedure.  

• Round 1 - This is the very first round of NEET Counselling in which candidates register themselves, do the choice filling and deposit security money. The result of this particular round is released after the completion of the round.      

• Round 2 - This round is conducted after round 1 subsequently. No further registration is required for candidates who have already applied for Round 1 but have not got any seat allocation. Fresh choice filling and results are declared in this particular round. The candidates who have joined a seat in round 2 of the State quota or AIQ counselling process are not permitted to participate in the subsequent rounds of the counselling process. 

• Mop-up Round - This round is conducted after the end of round 2. In this round, a fresh registration is required along with the fee payment. A fresh choice filling is done in this stage so as to make an allotment for those who haven’t got any allotment in the previous rounds. 

• Stray Vacancy Round - This is the last round of the NEET counselling process for the leftover seats in the institutes. It is specially conducted to fill the seats in deemed universities/institutes. The list of registered and qualified candidates is sent by MCC to the appropriate Deemed Universities then an offline process is conducted for the same.

Note: Once any round commences, the rules of that round will apply to all the candidates even if they were allotted/admitted in the previous round(s) of counselling

Every counselling session is different and each session has its own set of guidelines. 

For more detailed information on NEET Counselling 2023, you can connect with the best NEET counselling platform Career Xpert.