The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) published the final seat allotment for Round 1 of NEET UG 2026 counselling on 24 August. The document runs to 1,272 pages and lists 29,602 allotments, 25,635 of them MBBS and 3,967 BDS. Its own file properties record that it was generated at 9:24 am on 24 August.
MCC had already published this round twice: a provisional list on 20 August, then a revised provisional list on 21 August after it found an error in how PwD certificates had been uploaded. We compared the final list against that 21 August revision, row by row, matching candidates on their All India Rank.
What changed
Very little moved, but what moved was concentrated in one place. Thirty-three candidates appear in both lists and were given a different allotment in the final one. Every single one of them holds a PwD category: 18 in Open PwD, 13 in OBC PwD and 2 in EWS PwD. All 33 are MBBS candidates. Not one BDS allotment changed, and no candidate outside the PwD pools was touched.
That distribution matches the reason MCC gave for reopening the result in the first place. A certificate upload problem in the PwD stream would be expected to change PwD allotments and leave everything else alone, and that is exactly what the two files show.
Alongside those 33, six candidates who had a seat in the provisional list do not appear in the final one, and seven who were absent now hold a seat. The list therefore grew by a single row.
Who gained and who lost
The seven candidates added to the final list are better ranked than the six who dropped out. The additions sit between All India Rank 157,599 and 651,991; the removals run from 693,568 to 885,241. Read together, the two groups describe one event: candidates whose PwD certificates were accepted on review entered the merit list, and because they ranked higher, the six candidates at the very bottom of the PwD order were pushed out of Round 1.
Between those two ends, the correction travelled down the list one seat at a time. The candidate at rank 189,475 moved from Bangalore Medical College to Mysore Medical College. The candidate at 271,663, who had held that Mysore seat, moved to Belagavi Institute of Medical Sciences. The Belagavi seat had belonged to rank 362,709, who moved to Vijayanagar Institute of Medical Sciences, whose earlier holder at 416,535 moved on to Raichur Institute of Medical Sciences. Four candidates, one chain, each displacing the next.
Some candidates changed category as well as college. The candidate at 189,475 was allotted under OBC PwD in the provisional list and under Open PwD in the final one. Seven candidates saw a category change of this kind, and one saw a change of quota.
The affected candidates are spread from rank 189,475 to 993,428, with a median of 559,929. Almost every change sits deep in the rank order, which is where the PwD pools fill.
What candidates should do
The final list supersedes both provisional lists. Any candidate who checked their result on 20 or 21 August should check it again, because the allotment they saw then is no longer the one that counts. This applies most directly to PwD candidates, but the safest course for everyone is to open the final list rather than rely on a screenshot from earlier in the week.
Candidates who have been allotted a seat must report to the allotted college within the reporting window for Round 1, which runs to 31 August under MCC’s revised schedule of 19 August. A candidate who does not report in time forfeits the seat.
The six candidates who lost a Round 1 seat remain in the process. Round 2 registration follows Round 1 reporting, and seats left vacant after reporting are added to the Round 2 matrix.
Our All India Quota cutoff pages carry closing ranks by college, category and quota, and the predictor shows what your rank reaches across AIQ and state counselling together. We covered the provisional result and the discrepancy window when it was published on 20 August.
How we compared the two lists
Both documents were downloaded from MCC’s website, stored, and checksummed on the day they were published, so neither has been overwritten by the other. We extracted every row from each file, matched candidates on All India Rank and course, and compared the allotted institute, course, category and quota for each match. The counts above are from that comparison. The 21 August file is 4,592,581 bytes and the 24 August file is 4,592,896 bytes, a difference of 315 bytes across 1,272 pages, which is consistent with a change of this size.
Source: Medical Counselling Committee, DGHS, NEET UG 2026 Round 1 final seat allotment (published 24.08.2026) compared against the revised provisional allotment of 21.08.2026, both downloaded from mcc.nic.in and stored with checksums.