Of the 7,31,223 students who took the two editions of NEET-Undergraduate 2016-17 (held on May 1 and July 24), 4,09,477 qualified as per Medical Council of India’s regulations. Nine transgenders had written the exam and four qualified. Girls outnumbered boys among qualifiers as out of 4, 09,477 eligible for MBBS admissions, 2, 26,049 are girls and 1, 83,424 are boys.
For 15 per cent central quota seats in all state government medical colleges, 19, 325 students have qualified as per NEET scoreboard. India has 52,000 MBBS seats in 412 colleges and 15 per cent of these (nearly 4,000) are set aside as central quota MBBS seats to be filled exclusively on NEET merit.
The counselling of NEET 2016 will be conducted in two rounds – from August 22 to August 25, 2016 by Medical Counselling Committee (MCC). The counselling will be conducted in online mode
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Schedule for online counselling (Allotment process) for NEET (All India Quota) UG (MBBS/BDS) Seats - 2016
- Main Counseling Registration, Choice Filling & Indicative Seat - 22nd August to 25th August, 2016 (Registration will be open up to 05:00 PM of 25th August 2016 only)
- Exercising of Choices and Locking - 26th August, 2016 (up to 05:00 PM of 26th August, 2016)
- Process of Seat Allotment Round 1 - 27th August, 2016
- Round 1 Result Publish - 28th August, 2016
- Reporting at the Allotted Medical/Dental College against 1st Round - 29th August to 3rd September, 2016 (up to 05:00 PM of 3rd September, 2016)
- Exercising of Choices and Locking(Round 2) - 9th September 2016 to 10th September 2016
- Process of Seat Allotment (Round 2) - 11th September, 2016
- Round 2 Result Publish - 12th September, 2016
- Reporting at the Allotted Medical/Dental College against Round 2 - 13th to 20th September, 2016 (up to 05:00 PM of 20th September, 2016
- Transfer of vacant seats to State Quota - 20th September, 2016 (After 05:00 PM)
- Commencement of MBBS/BDS first year session – from 13th September, 2016