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Ministry Cuts NEET-MDS Qualifying Percentiles, NBEMS Revises Cut-Off Scores

Lowering cut-offs by 19.863 points boosts eligibility for postgraduate dental courses, prompting MCC to reconfigure the counselling process.

The NEET-MDS 2025 results were declared on May 15, 2025. For the current academic session (2025–26), the updated qualifying criteria and corresponding cut-off scores (out of 960) are given below.
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The NEET MDS 2025 qualifying cut-off percentiles have been lowered for all categories, increasing eligibility for PG dental courses.

Overview

  • A mid-August MoHFW directive reduced the NEET-MDS qualifying percentiles by exactly 19.863 points across all categories.
  • NBEMS converted the new percentile thresholds into raw scores—197 for General (UR/EWS), 168 for SC/ST/OBC (including PwBD) and 182 for General-PwBD out of 960.
  • The board confirmed that the rank list published on May 15 remains unchanged and that all admissions are provisional pending fulfilment of eligibility and Face ID/biometric verification.
  • The Medical Counselling Committee is set to reopen or adjust its registration and seat-allocation schedule for both All-India and state quota MDS seats to include newly eligible candidates.
  • Officials pointed to the Dental Council of India’s MDS Regulations, 2017 and its 2018 amendment as the legal basis for the mid-August adjustments.