NEET PG 2025 Transparency Hearing: The Supreme Court will today (September 12) take up all pending petitions over the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for Postgraduate (NEET PG) 2025 transparency issue. According to reports, a total of 11 pleas have been filed concerning the answer key transparency case.
At the centre of the dispute is the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences’ (NBEMS) abrupt rollback of its August 21 decision to release the full set of NEET PG questions with the answer key and candidates’ response sheets. Days later, it issued a “corrective notice”, restricting disclosure to question IDs, triggering accusations of opacity from doctors and aspirants.
What happened at the last hearing?
“Why do you think there is no transparency? Is it because you got less marks?” the SC asked petitioners during the September 4 hearing. The matter, originally listed for October, was advanced and briefly heard early September. During the proceedings, the court observed that Article 32 petitions often challenge exam processes but sometimes risk being misused rather than serving systemic improvements.
However, petitioners countered that the new format makes the results “non-verifiable”, as most candidates cannot map answers to a master set without seeing the full paper.
The hearing coincides with the Medical Counselling Committee’s (MCC) preparations to release the counselling schedule for 50 per cent All India Quota (AIQ) seats in MD, MS and postgraduate diploma programmes for 2025–26.
How many candidates appeared for NEET PG?
This year’s NEET PG was held on August 3 in a single shift across 1,052 centres in 301 cities, with more than 2.42 lakh candidates appearing.