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  • Three Maharashtra colleges drop out of round 1 as they convert to private universities

    The State Common Entrance Test Cell has issued Notice No. 11 along with a revised Group A seat matrix, both dated 25 August. Together they change which colleges you can choose in the first round, and what happens at three of them afterwards.

    Three colleges will not be in the first round

    The Medical Education and Drugs Department has informed the CET Cell that three private colleges have started the process of establishing themselves as private universities:

    • Dr. Vithalrao Vikhe Patil Foundation’s Medical College, Ahilyanagar
    • N.K.P. Salve Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur
    • Ranjit Deshmukh Dental College and Research Centre, Nagpur

    All three will not participate in the first admission round. They join a later round once the formalities for their private universities are complete. We checked the revised seat matrix against the notice, and all three are indeed absent from it.

    What changes once they become private universities

    This is the part that outlasts the round. Under Clause 9.3 of the NEET UG 2026 Information Brochure, three provisions then apply to these colleges:

    1. 40 per cent of institutional seats are reserved for candidates holding a Maharashtra Domicile Certificate.
    2. Fees are set by the Fee Fixation Committee constituted by the private university itself, rather than the arrangement that governs them today.
    3. Candidates admitted to these colleges are not eligible for any government scholarship or fee reimbursement scheme.

    The third point is the one to weigh carefully. If you were counting on a state scholarship or fee reimbursement to make a private seat affordable, that support does not follow you to a college once it converts. Work out the cost without it before you rank one of these three in a later round.

    The revised seat matrix

    The Group A matrix published the same day covers 11,675 seats across 93 colleges. Its own printed totals reconcile exactly with the college-by-college figures, which is a good sign for a document revised mid-counselling.

    Course and college type Colleges Intake capacity
    MBBS, government and aided 42 5,950
    MBBS, private 23 3,149
    BDS, private 23 2,200
    BDS, government 5 376

    That is 9,099 MBBS seats and 2,576 BDS seats. Of the government MBBS intake, 950 seats go to the All India Quota and are allotted by the MCC rather than the state.

    Note that intake capacity is not the same as the number of seats the state will allot to you. The AIQ share, and the institutional and minority quotas at private colleges, come out of these figures.

    The final merit list is due on 26 August

    The CET Cell website carries a notice that the final merit list for MBBS and BDS will be published on 26 August 2026. That is the list the first round allotment runs from.

    Our Maharashtra cutoff pages carry closing ranks by college, category and seat type, and the predictor shows which seats your rank reaches.

    Sources: State Common Entrance Test Cell, Maharashtra, Notice No. 11, ref. MED-1026/CR.No.83/NEET-UG-2026, dated 25/08/2026, signed by the Commissioner; and the Provisional Seat Matrix for MBBS/BDS Courses, Group A, printed 25/08/2026. Seat figures were computed by parsing all 93 college blocks of the matrix and reconcile exactly with its printed section totals. The 26 August merit list date is from the notice carried on the CET Cell website.

  • Jharkhand adds Awadh Dental College back to BDS counselling, with a warning attached

    The Jharkhand Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board has issued a public notice about one specific college, and candidates filling BDS choices should read it before locking anything.

    Seats at Awadh Dental College and Hospital, Jamshedpur are being included in the counselling process, following a judgment of the Jharkhand High Court. JCECEB is not presenting this as a clean restoration, and the notice is unusually direct about why.

    What the court decided, and what it left open

    The High Court, by its judgment dated 13 August 2026, set aside the earlier decision that had stopped and debarred admissions at the college. That is why the seats are back in the counselling pool.

    But the court did not settle everything. It expressly left open the question of the legality and regularity of the admission of 68 BDS students, for determination by the National Dental Commission through an independent inquiry, after giving the college an opportunity of hearing.

    So the college can take admissions again, while a regulator examines whether a previous batch of 68 admissions was valid.

    What JCECEB is telling candidates

    The board asks candidates to consider the regulatory and legal position, and its possible implications, before filling or locking a choice for this college. It advises them to satisfy themselves about the latest status of the college, including its recognition or permission for the relevant academic session, and to keep checking official communications from the competent regulatory authorities.

    Then comes the sentence that matters most:

    “Once a candidate exercises and locks a choice and is allotted a seat, the consequences applicable under the counselling rules shall follow.”

    In plain terms, the counselling rules bind you once you are allotted. If you list this college and get it, you are subject to the usual consequences of holding that allotment, and the regulatory question does not become the board problem. JCECEB says it is issuing the advisory in the interest of transparency so that candidates are fully informed before choosing.

    How to treat this

    This is not a direction to avoid the college, and we are not making one either. It is a disclosure that the college carries an unresolved regulatory question that other colleges on your list do not.

    The practical approach is ordering. A choice list is ranked, so a college you are uncertain about belongs below the ones you are not uncertain about, rather than being included or excluded outright. Check the recognition status for the current session yourself before you lock, and read the court order rather than a summary of it, including this one.

    Our Jharkhand cutoff pages carry closing ranks by college and category, and the predictor works from your state rank or your All India Rank. We covered the round 1 extension and the round 1 merit list earlier this month.

    Source: Jharkhand Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board, letter no. J.C.E.C.E.B/46/26-1004, Ranchi, dated 24.08.2026, “Important advisory to candidates regarding choice of Awadh Dental College and Hospital, Jamshedpur”, issued by order of the Controller of Examination.

  • Punjab moves its round 1 allotment to 27 August, and objections must be filed in person at Faridkot

    Baba Farid University of Health Sciences has revised the entire first-round schedule for MBBS and BDS admission under NEET UG 2026. Every stage has moved, most by about five days.

    The new dates

    Stage Old Revised
    Online choice filling 16 to 19 Aug, 5 pm 16 to 23 Aug, 5 pm
    Provisional seat allotment result 22 Aug 27 Aug
    Last date for objections 23 Aug, 3 pm 28 Aug
    Revised provisional allotment, after objections 24 Aug 29 Aug
    Physical reporting to colleges 25 to 28 Aug 30 Aug to 5 Sep

    Choice filling has already closed under the revised schedule. What remains live is the allotment on 27 August and everything after it.

    Objections cannot be emailed

    This is the part worth planning around. The notice states that objections to the provisional allotment are accepted only through personal appearance in the Admission Branch, BFUHS, Faridkot, along with supporting documents, and that objections submitted by email or any other electronic mode will not be entertained.

    You get one day. The allotment appears on 27 August and objections close on 28 August, so if you think something is wrong with your allotment you need to be physically in Faridkot with your documents inside that window. Candidates elsewhere in the state, or outside it, should work out the travel now rather than after seeing the result.

    That is a stricter rule than most states run this season. Kerala, by contrast, takes complaints on its first-phase allotment by email.

    Reporting comes with a fee payment

    Physical reporting runs from 30 August to 5 September at the allotted college, and covers verification of original documents, medical examination where applicable, and completion of admission formalities. It also requires payment of six months of tuition fee through the University Online Payment Gateway in the candidate login.

    Six months rather than a full year is the figure to budget against for this stage.

    Our Punjab cutoff pages carry closing ranks by college, category and seat type, and the predictor shows which seats your rank reaches. We covered the round 1 merit list and the original admission schedule earlier.

    Source: Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot, Admission Branch, “Revised schedule for first round of online counselling under NEET UG-2026 for admission to MBBS/BDS course”, dated 25.08.2026, signed by the Registrar.

  • Kerala’s final first phase allotment moves exactly one seat, and government MBBS still closes at state rank 721

    The Commissioner for Entrance Examinations published the final first phase allotment for MBBS and BDS on 27 August, replacing the provisional list of 24 August. It covers state quota seats in government colleges and seats in private self-financing colleges. NRI quota seats are not part of this allotment.

    Two documents went up together: the allotment list and a college-wise last rank table, which is the more useful of the two if you are deciding what to do next. We parsed both in full, all 5,893 allotments and all 58 colleges, and the two files agree on every figure.

    The final list moved exactly one seat

    We compared the 27 August final list against the 24 August provisional list row by row, matched on application number. One row was added and not a single existing row changed. No candidate lost a seat, moved college, changed category or changed option number.

    The added seat is an MBBS seat at Government Medical College Manjeri, allotted in the physically disabled pool. It is the only movement anywhere in the last rank table: Manjeri’s PD last rank went from 30,168 to 32,565. Every other last rank in all 58 colleges is unchanged.

    So the totals now read 5,893 allotments, 4,422 MBBS and 1,471 BDS. If you read this article when the provisional list came out, nothing you noted then has moved.

    One thing worth flagging for anyone comparing the two PDFs themselves: the Commissioner reordered the category columns between the two publications. BH sits seventh in the final table where it sat fourth in the provisional. A quick visual diff of the two files will look like dozens of changed numbers. It is the column order moving, not the ranks.

    These are Kerala ranks, not All India Ranks

    Every number below is a Kerala state rank from the KEAM medical list, running from 2 to 33,544. They are not NEET All India Ranks, and comparing them against an AIR will mislead you badly. Check your Kerala rank before reading the table.

    Where the seats went

    Course and college type Allotments
    MBBS, self-financing 2,928
    MBBS, government 1,493
    BDS, self-financing 1,233
    BDS, government 238

    Government colleges account for about a third of MBBS allotments. The self-financing sector carries most of the state’s intake, which is worth absorbing before you decide how far down your option list to look.

    State Merit last ranks

    State Merit, or SM, is the open pool. Any candidate can be allotted an SM seat regardless of community, so these are the numbers most people want.

    Segment Best last rank Deepest last rank
    MBBS, government 144, Kozhikode 721, Manjeri
    MBBS, self-financing 1,753, Jubilee Mission Thrissur 9,716, Palakkad Institute of Medical Sciences
    BDS, government 2,277, Kozhikode 3,245, Alappuzha
    BDS, self-financing 9,944, Pushpagiri Thiruvalla 21,259, Sri Sankara Varkala

    The government MBBS band is remarkably tight. Nine colleges took State Merit candidates and the whole range spans 144 to 721, so a few hundred ranks separate the top government college in the state from the last one to fill.

    Five government colleges show no State Merit rank at all

    Idukki, Kasaragod, Palakkad, Konni and Wayanad government medical colleges recorded no State Merit allotment in this phase, despite taking 329 allotments between them in community and reserved categories.

    Read the dash in those cells as “nothing allotted here yet”, not as “closed at a very deep rank”. That still holds in the final list. If you are an SM candidate, these five are the ones to watch in the second phase.

    Only 7 per cent got their first choice

    The allotment list records which option number each candidate was allotted against, and the distribution is stark:

    • 433 candidates, about 7 per cent, got their first option
    • 512 got options 2 or 3
    • 1,220 got options 4 to 10
    • 3,728, roughly 63 per cent, got option 11 or deeper

    That is the single most useful thing in this data. Most candidates are sitting on a seat well below what they asked for, which is exactly the situation later phases exist to correct. Do not treat a deep first-phase allotment as your final outcome.

    Reading the community columns

    The last rank table breaks each college down by SM, EZ, MU, BH, LA, DV, VK, BX, KN, KU, SC, ST and EW, with further codes for management and community quotas at self-financing colleges. A closing rank in a community column is deeper than the SM figure at the same college because the pool competing for those seats is smaller. Compare within your own column, never across.

    Our Kerala cutoff pages carry closing ranks by college and category from earlier years, and the predictor works from your Kerala rank. We covered the option registration extension and the round 1 option process earlier this month.

    Source: Office of the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations, Thiruvananthapuram. First phase allotment list and last rank table dated 27.08.2026, published at cee.kerala.gov.in, and the provisional versions of both dated 24.08.2026. Figures here were computed by parsing all 5,893 rows of the allotment list and all 58 rows of the last rank table, and by diffing the two publications on application number. Updated 28 August 2026.

  • Madhya Pradesh round 1 allotment is out: 6,169 seats, government MBBS closes near 55,600

    The Directorate of Medical Education has published the first-round allotment for MP State Combined NEET UG counselling, alongside a college-wise opening and closing rank list. The allotment was originally scheduled for 20 August and was postponed after the MCC revised its counselling schedule.

    We parsed the full rank file, all 541 college-and-category rows, to work out where things actually closed.

    The headline numbers

    6,169 seats allotted across 47 institutions, 21 government and 26 private.

    Course and college type Seats allotted
    MBBS, private 2,706
    MBBS, government 2,440
    BDS, private 937
    BDS, government 86

    Note the first two lines. In this round Madhya Pradesh allotted more private MBBS seats than government ones, which is worth knowing if you are ranking on the assumption that government seats dominate the state’s intake.

    Open category, no horizontal claim

    These are the numbers most candidates are looking for. “Open” here means the UR category with no additional claim such as PwD, government school or freedom fighter.

    Seats Opening AIR Closing AIR Score range
    MBBS, government 848 987 55,593 658 to 530
    MBBS, private 1,145 24,601 1,37,487 568 to 467
    BDS, government 31 55,745 81,863 530 to 506
    BDS, private 428 81,212 4,18,443 507 to 349

    The private MBBS opening rank is the interesting one

    Private MBBS opens at AIR 24,601, comfortably better than the 55,593 at which government MBBS closed. Candidates with ranks good enough for a government seat took private ones instead.

    That is a preference signal, not an anomaly. Some candidates rank a particular private college in a particular city above a government college elsewhere in the state, and the allotment follows the order they filled. If you are ordering your own list, it is a reminder that the government-versus-private line is not automatically the first thing to sort on.

    Reserved categories, government MBBS

    Category Seats Opening AIR Closing AIR
    EWS 212 8,097 62,845
    OBC 297 8,241 56,090
    SC 339 16,445 1,63,840
    ST 423 34,887 3,24,519

    A closing rank of 3,24,519 for ST does not mean a weaker college. It reflects a smaller candidate pool competing for a reserved block of seats, which is how reservation is designed to work. Compare within your own category, never across categories.

    NRI seats

    319 NRI seats were allotted, 285 of them MBBS, running from AIR 1,48,914 all the way to 9,92,621 with scores from 460 down to 213. That spread is the clearest illustration in this data of what an NRI seat buys: entry at a rank that would not reach a state-quota seat anywhere.

    Two things to keep in mind

    This allotment is provisional. The document is titled a provisional first-round allotment list, so seats can still move.

    Every row in the rank file is MP domicile. These figures describe the state-quota round for Madhya Pradesh domicile candidates, not the All India Quota seats at the same colleges, which the MCC allots separately.

    Our Madhya Pradesh cutoff pages carry closing ranks by college and category from previous years, and the predictor shows which of these seats your rank reaches. We covered the postponement when it was announced.

    Source: Directorate of Medical Education, MP State Combined NEET UG Counselling 2026, first round allotment list (provisional) and first round allotment opening/closing rank list, both dated 24.08.2026. Figures here were computed by parsing all 541 rows of the opening/closing file.

  • Karnataka will re-run its round 1 medical allotment, and some candidates will be upgraded

    The Karnataka Examinations Authority has set out what happens next for the first round of UG medical and dental admission, and it changes the status of the result published on 23 August. That result was provisional. KEA will now re-run the allotment and publish a revised final result.

    If you have an MCC seat you want, act on 25 or 26 August

    Candidates who were allotted a seat in the MCC first round and intend to take it must exit KEA counselling by logging in to the KEA website on 25 or 26 August 2026 and selecting Choice-4 (Exit).

    That is a two-day window, and it is the only action this notification asks any candidate to take.

    Everyone else may be upgraded without doing anything

    The point of collecting those exits is to reuse the seats they vacate. In KEA’s words, in order to make use of the medical seats cancelled through Choice-4 by candidates taking MCC seats, and to make such seats available to eligible first-round candidates as per recent orders of the High Courts, KEA will re-run the first-round allotment for medical and dental courses.

    Two things follow from that, and both matter:

    The re-run uses the options you already entered. KEA states plainly that no changes to existing options will be permitted. There is nothing to edit and nothing to re-submit.

    You may move up. The revised first-round result will be published “with candidates being considered for possible upgradation to higher-order options seats, subject to seat availability and applicable allotment rules”. If a seat you ranked higher gets vacated, the re-run can give it to you.

    The order of events

    1. Provisional first-round result — published 23 August 2026
    2. MCC seat holders exit via Choice-4 — 25 and 26 August 2026
    3. KEA re-runs the first-round allotment on existing options
    4. Revised first-round final result published, with upgradations applied
    5. The choice-selection portal for medical and dental first round is then opened

    Note the order of the last two steps. The portal where you pick Choice-1, 2, 3 or 4 against your allotted seat opens after the revised result, not before. So do not wait for a choice window to appear against the 23 August allotment; the seat you are choosing on may still change.

    What not to do

    If you do not hold an MCC seat, you have no action here. Selecting Choice-4 means exiting KEA counselling altogether, so it is not a way to signal interest in an upgrade. The upgrade happens automatically in the re-run.

    The same notification also carries the UGCET second-round final result for engineering and allied courses, which runs on a separate track with its own Choice-1 rules and a Rs. 5,000 penalty for cancelling a Choice-1 seat. Those rules do not apply to the medical and dental first round described here.

    Our Karnataka cutoff pages carry closing ranks by college, category and seat type, and the predictor shows which seats your rank reaches. We also covered the round 1 mock allotment and the 2026-27 college-wise fee structure.

    Source: Karnataka Examinations Authority, Note No. ED/KEA/UGCET-UGNEET/2026 dated 24-08-2026, issued in Kannada and English. Quotations above are from the English text of the same notification.

  • Odisha publishes round 1 provisional allotment: 2,002 seats, open MBBS closes near 95,000

    The Odisha Joint Entrance Examination board has published the provisional round 1 allotment for MBBS and BDS state quota seats, covering 2,002 candidates across 19 colleges. We read the full list and worked out what it says about where ranks actually closed.

    Act today if something is wrong

    Per the OJEE schedule, the window to raise a query on the provisional allotment opens at 2 pm on 25 August 2026. The final allotment and allotment-letter download follow at 11.30 am on 26 August. Provisional admission, by paying the fee and reporting at the OJEE Cell in Gandamunda with originals and a signed bond, runs from 28 August to 6 September.

    This is a provisional list. Seats can move before the final result.

    What the numbers show

    Course and college type Allotments NEET rank range
    MBBS, government colleges 1,548 80 to 10,95,255
    MBBS, private colleges 326 28,127 to 10,77,898
    BDS, government colleges 53 11,286 to 10,75,420
    BDS, private colleges 75 41,697 to 11,86,129

    Read those wide ranges carefully

    A rank of 10 or 11 lakh appearing against a government college does not mean an open seat went that deep. Those are reserved-category and sub-category allotments, where the candidate pool is far smaller and closing ranks are naturally much deeper.

    The number most candidates are actually looking for is narrower: MBBS at government colleges in the open category, with no sub-category claim, ran from AIR 80 to about 95,204 across 648 allotments. Everything deeper than that in the government-college column belongs to SC, ST, EWS, SEBC, PwD, Green Card or ex-servicemen pools.

    BDS runs deeper than MBBS throughout, which is the usual pattern.

    Three seat pools, not one

    Odisha allots from three distinct pools, and the list marks each one:

    • HS, home state — 1,694 allotments, the bulk of the round
    • SGS, government school — 290 allotments, reserved for candidates from government schools
    • NR, NRI — 18 allotments, paid seats

    Mixing these together is what makes published Odisha cutoffs look strange, so it is worth checking which pool a quoted closing rank belongs to before comparing it with your own.

    Where the seats went

    The three largest allotments are SCB Medical College Cuttack and VIMSAR Burla with 211 each, and MKCG Berhampur with 208. Among private colleges, HITECH Bhubaneswar took 124 and DRIEMS 123. On the dental side, HITECH Dental College received 75 and SCB Dental College Cuttack 53.

    By category, the 2,002 allotments break down as 626 SEBC, 528 general, 421 ST, 323 SC and 104 EWS. State ranks run from 1 to 6,217.

    Our Odisha cutoff pages carry closing ranks by college, category and seat type from previous years, and the predictor works from either your state rank or your All India Rank. We covered the revised round 1 schedule when choice filling was extended.

    Source: OJEE-2026 provisional allotment of candidates (common state rank wise) among those who have filled choices, MBBS/BDS 1st round, No. OJEE/0441 dated 24-08-2026. Figures in this article were computed by parsing all 2,002 rows of that list.

  • JIPMER Puducherry gives round 1 candidates a 90-minute reporting window each day

    JIPMER has published its admission brochure for candidates allotted an MBBS seat at JIPMER Puducherry after the first round of MCC allotment. It applies to freeze candidates, in both the open All India and Puducherry UT domicile categories.

    The window is 90 minutes, not a working day

    Entry to the JIPMER Academic Centre opens at 9 am on each reporting date, and candidates arriving after 10.30 am will not be allowed in. They have to return the following day for the admission process. JIPMER states it will not be responsible for delays in a candidate’s arrival.

    Reporting dates are 25, 27, 28, 29 and 31 August 2026. There is no reporting on 26 August, which is a public holiday.

    The venue is the Mini Auditorium, fourth floor, JIPMER Academic Centre, Puducherry.

    Two scheduling traps

    29 August is a half working day. Candidates who report on the 29th have to come back on 31 August to complete the medical examination. Reporting late in the window therefore means two trips, not one.

    JIPMER also advises candidates not to leave it to the final dates, so that the admission formalities can be finished in time.

    Finish three things before you travel

    1. Fill the online e-form. It is hosted on digialm and needs a recent passport-sized photograph uploaded. Give separate email addresses and mobile numbers for the candidate and the parent, and check both are accurate. Print the submitted form.

    2. Pay the academic fee through SBI Collect. On State Bank Collect, choose Educational Institutions, search JIPMER, Pondicherry, then the “Academic fee – PHD MSC MPH MBBS BSC BASLP” option, and pay per the split given in the prospectus. The fee split is on page 16 of the JIPMER MBBS Puducherry prospectus 2026; ST candidates should read page 12 on exemption from the upfront admission-fee component.

    Two warnings attached to this. Fees once paid are not refunded under any circumstances, and admission cannot be claimed on the basis of fee payment alone. Paying does not secure the seat; completing verification does.

    3. Print and carry the forms. The submitted e-form, the fee payment receipt, the ID card form in block letters (Annexure 3), the hostel application form if applicable (Annexure 2, printed back to back), the honour code (printed back to back), and a copy of the anti-ragging undertaking from antiragging.in along with the linked Google form.

    On the day

    Show the allotment letter to security at the entrance. Carry a valid photo ID and the seat allotment order at all times. Only candidates are allowed inside the Academic Centre, with a separate waiting area for parents, so plan for a family member to wait outside.

    Our All India Quota cutoff pages carry closing ranks by college and category, and we covered the round 1 final result when it was published.

    Source: JIPMER Academic Section, No. JIP/MBBS/Admi./2026, information brochure for MBBS admission 2026-27, first round, JIPMER Puducherry.

  • AIIMS New Delhi sets NEET UG 2026 reporting for 25 to 31 August, closed on two of those days

    AIIMS New Delhi has issued revised reporting instructions for candidates allotted a seat there in the first round of MCC counselling. Reporting, verification and submission of original documents run from 25 to 31 August 2026, 9.30 am to 4.00 pm, at the Academic Section, Undergraduate Cell.

    Two of those days are not working days

    The admission procedure remains closed on 26 and 30 August 2026, being a holiday and a Sunday. A “25 to 31 August” window is really five working days, not seven. If you were planning to travel for the 26th or the 30th, you would arrive to a closed counter.

    The full schedule

    Activity Date Time
    Reporting, verification and submission of original documents 25 to 31 August 2026 (closed 26 and 30) 9.30 am to 4.00 pm
    Medical examination and submission of academic fees 1 September 2026 report at 8.45 am, Conference Hall
    Hostel accommodation and hostel fees 1 September 2026 after declaration of medical fitness
    General orientation with the Director and Dean 2 September 2026 Conference Hall
    CREST orientation programme (compulsory) 3 to 8 September 2026 Conference Hall / CMETi
    Regular classes begin 9 September 2026

    AIIMS notes that candidates should be prepared for an additional day’s stay, since joining and the medical examination may spill over to the next day. Academic fees are paid only after medical fitness is declared, and hostel allocation happens immediately after the hostel fee is deposited.

    What to carry

    Exam and counselling documents: the NEET application form or confirmation page, the original printed NTA scorecard and admit card, the provisional seat allotment letter from MCC, five passport photographs and a government photo ID.

    Eligibility documents: the class 10 certificate showing date of birth, and the 10+2 certificate and marksheet showing 60% or more in aggregate across English, Physics, Chemistry and Biology (50% for SC/ST, 45% for persons with benchmark disability), plus a migration certificate.

    Category documents, where applicable: an SC/ST certificate naming the community; an OBC-NCL certificate whose sub-caste tallies with the central list, in the prescribed format, with both the OBC and NCL certificates carried; an EWS certificate; and a disability certificate with the MCC medical assessment. OBC-NCL and EWS certificates issued from 1 April 2025 onward are valid for this admission.

    Bring two sets of copies of everything. And note this: original certificates of candidates who join are retained by AIIMS and are not returned before the course is completed.

    Our All India Quota cutoff pages carry closing ranks by college and category, and we covered the round 1 final result when it was published.

    Source: All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Academic Section (UG Cell), revised instructions for reporting dated 24.08.2026 and the revised schedule of activities dated 22.08.2026, signed by the Registrar and Nodal Officer, MBBS Admission (NEET-UG 2026).

  • Gujarat opens NEET UG 2026 round 1 choice filling on 24 August, publishes 7,500-seat matrix

    The Admission Committee for Professional Undergraduate Medical Education Courses has opened the first round of online choice filling for MBBS and BDS, and published the round 1 seat matrix for medical and dental courses.

    The schedule

    Activity From To
    Round 1 choice filling 24.08.2026 27.08.2026, 1.00 pm
    Display of choices filled by candidates 27.08.2026, up to 4.00 pm

    It is open to every candidate on the ACPUGMEC merit list, and covers government, management and NRI seats across government, grant-in-aid and self-financed colleges.

    What the seat matrix shows

    Gujarat’s MBBS intake for 2026-27 is 7,500 seats, split as:

    Quota Seats
    Government quota (state counselling) 5,891
    NRI 862
    Management 430
    All India Quota (filled by MCC) 317

    Within the 5,891 government-quota seats the category split is 2,415 open, 1,591 SEBC, 884 ST, 589 EWS and 412 SC.

    The matrix is published per college with an intake figure and the full quota and category breakdown, which is more detail than most states give at this stage. Two colleges appear as two rows each: Smt. NHL Municipal Medical College (182 + 68) and SMIMER Surat (180 + 70), because both carry a separate local-quota stream on top of their general intake. Each still totals 250.

    One number worth checking before you rank

    NRI seats at 862 are twice the management count of 430. If an NRI seat is part of your plan, Gujarat has an unusually large share of them, and they sit in the same choice-filling exercise rather than a separate process.

    The committee also asks candidates to visit medadmgujarat.org frequently, since admission information is updated there.

    Our Gujarat cutoff pages carry closing ranks by college, category and seat type, and the predictor shows which of those 7,500 seats your rank actually reaches before you commit to an order.

    Source: ACPUGMEC, Government of Gujarat, advertisement for the 1st round of online choice filling for MBBS and BDS courses, and the round 1 medical and dental seat matrices for 2026-27, published on medadmgujarat.ncode.in.