National Exit Test (NExT) To Replace NEET PG For Medical PG Admissions

The NEET PG 2023 exams, which are scheduled for April to May 2023, might be the final ones for admissions to postgraduate medical programmes. According to recent updates, the National Exit Test will now be held for medical students who want to continue their education at the graduate level in their final year. Read the article to know more details.

The National Medical Commission recently informed the Union Health Ministry that it intends to hold the National Exit Test (NExt) for PG Admissions in December 2023. The MBBS students from the 2019-20 batch will take the exam, assuming it is held in December 2023. The outcomes will be applied to admissions to the PG programmes available for the academic year 2024-2025.

The government requested the NMC Acts' pertinent sections in September to prolong the deadline for holding NExT until September 2024. The commission was required by law to administer a Common Final-Year Undergraduate Medical Examination following the regulations three years after it went into effect.

NExT: New Qualifying Exam For Post-Graduate Medical Programmes (Instead of NEET PG)

The National Exit Test will reportedly serve as a standard qualifying exam for students in their last year of MBBS, a licencing exam to practise medicine, merit-based admissions to PG programmes, and a screening exam for foreign medical graduates who seek to continue practising in India. The difficulty of Foreign Medical Graduates will be resolved, and mutual recognition will result from the NExT exam being the same for final-year MBBS students who studied in India and those who finished their studies elsewhere.

Conducting Authority

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, will likely administer the test rather than the National Board of Examination in Medical Sciences since the Act was enacted in September 2020. The subject has yet to be decided.
The NExT exam must be administered with enough planning, a suitable syllabus, an appropriate exam format, and enough preparation time for the candidates. To help the students become accustomed to the exam format, mock tests will also be provided aligned with the final exam pattern.

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