The National Board of Examinations (NBE) will conduct NEET for post-graduate courses between December 5 and 13 while it will hold the dental courses on November 30 in 86 centres across 41 cities.
NEET (National Eligibility Entrance Test) is the single eligibility cum entrance examination for admission to postgraduate medical courses for the academic session 2017.
Unlike a one-time reprieve provided to states for conducting undergraduate medical and dental courses this year, no other entrance examination either at State level or institutional level will be valid anymore, as per the Supreme Court order.
The examination schedule of the NEET for the PG medical and dental courses for the 2017 academic session was announced by the Union Health Ministry on Wednesday.
A senior official from the Ministry said that the entire process for registration and application for the examination is online while the website for NEET-PG shall be available from Saturday, September 24, and online registration will begin from Monday, September 26.
A toll-free number will become functional from Saturday and candidates can also consult the website- www.nbe.edu.in, for further details about the exam, he added.
The statement said that it will be a single eligibility cum entrance examination for admission to PG medical courses’ for 2017 and include all India 50 per cent quota seats for MD, MS and PG Diploma courses for all States except Andhra, J&K and Telangana.
It will also include State quota seats for MD, MS and PG diploma courses for all States and UTs, including Andhra, J&K and Telangana.
Autonomous medical institutes — All India Institute of Medical Sciences, PGIMER-Chandigarh, JIPMER-Puducherry, SRICHITRA Institute-Thiruvananthapuram and NIMHANS-Bengaluru —are not covered by NEET PG.