Big Breaking: NBE To Hold NEET PG 2025 in a Single Shift, Supreme Court Directs

The Supreme Court has ordered NBE To Hold NEET PG 2025 in a Single Shift on June 15 to ensure fairness in the postgraduate entrance exam and avoid last year's problems. SC also said there is enough time left for arrangements.

The Supreme Court (SC) ruled that the National Board of Examination (NBE) should not hold NEET-PG 2025 in two shifts, citing the risk of arbitrariness on Friday, May 30, 2025. The Court asked the NBE authority to make plans to hold NEET-PG 2025 in a single shift to ensure transparency. The NEET PG Exam 2025 is scheduled for June 15, 2025, and finally, it is confirmed that the exam will be conducted in one shift. The Court noted that there was still time to make the appropriate arrangements for the students and exam centers. Read the full content in this article in detail.

NBE To Hold NEET PG 2025 in a Single Shift

What Supreme Court say about the Double Shift exam?

“The exam cannot be administered in two shifts, which creates arbitrariness and a level playing field. The NEET PG question papers 2025 for the two shifts cannot be of the same difficulty level. Last year, it may have been held in two shifts depending on the facts and circumstances of the stage. However, the examining board should have considered scheduling the examination in a single shift.

NBE Says, there were not enough centres: SC Rejects

The Court rejected the NBE’s argument that there were not enough centres to hold the exam in a single shift, stating, “We are not ready to accept that in the entire country, and considering the technological advancements in this country, the examining body could not find enough centres to hold the examination in one shift.” A bench of Justice Vikram Nath, Justice Sanjay Kumar, and Justice NV Anjaria issued the verdict while hearing a series of petitions contesting the National Board of Examinations’ (NBE) decision to hold NEET-PG 2025 in two shifts.

About Normalization in NEET PG 2025 Exam

Applying normalisation in a routine method is not possible; instead, administer the exam in a single shift. Court directs Regarding the NBE’s contention that normalisation is used to equalise the standards of both exams, the Court stated in its order: “Holding examination in two shifts generates arbitrariness. Any two question papers cannot be regarded to be the same level of difficulty or easiness. There must be a variety.

Normalisation may be used in extreme circumstances, but not regularly year after year.” The examination for this year is set for June 15th, 2025. The examining body still has more than two weeks to designate the examination centres and one shift. We accordingly require the respondents to make further arrangements for holding the examination in a single shift, as well as to ensure complete openness and the identification of secure centres.”