The NEET-PG 2025 counselling process is currently underway, and the MCC has extended the deadline of the Round 1 choice-filling process until further notice. This has given medical students enough time to select their preferred colleges and courses. While the counselling continues, the Supreme Court of India on Friday directed the National Board of Examinations (NBE) to clarify its official policy on publishing answer keys for the NEET-PG exam 2025.
A bench of Justices P.S. Narasimha and Vipul Pancholi asked NBE to file an affidavit on the matter of disclosing the NEET PG 2025 Answer Key. The direction came during the hearing of several petitions, candidates aspiring for more transparency and fairness in the system of the NEET-PG examination. Besides, they also demand that the normalisation formula for final result calculations be revealed so that the evaluation process can be open and trustworthy.
NBE’s Concerns Over Disclosure of NEET PG Answer Keys
During the hearing, the NBE’s counsel opposed the idea of making the answer keys available to the public, and he alleged that coaching institutes were the ones that had filed these kinds of petitions just to get their hands on the question papers. The lawyer further argued that publishing the answer keys could “compromise the quality of the examination.”
The petitioners argued that publishing answer keys, raw scores, and the normalisation formula would boost trust in NEET-PG results. Earlier, on September 26, the Supreme Court had issued notices to the Centre and NBEMS on similar transparency petitions.
NBE Directed to Submit Affidavit on Its Policy
The NBE is now required to submit an affidavit outlining its stance on the matter. After the submission of the affidavit, the subsequent hearing will be there, and the Supreme Court’s decision is expected to set an important precedent for transparency in national-level medical entrance examinations like NEET-PG.
