NEET PG 2025: FAIMA Urges Union Minister to Uphold Single Shift Exam; Calls Normalisation Futile

The association highlighted that NEET PG in multiple shifts have different difficulty level and subject-wise question distribution and asked Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare J P Nadda to uphold examination in single shift. 

NEET PG 2025 is witnessing increasing demand for the examination to be conducted in a single shift. In light of these concerns, the Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA) has urged the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, J. P. Nadda, to ensure that the NEET PG exam is held in a single shift to uphold fairness and uniformity in the entrance process.

The association has written a formal letter to the Union Minister highlighting the drawbacks of conducting the entrance examination in two shifts. The association mentioned that the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare discontinued conducting the entrance examination in multiple shifts in 2017 in order to protect the interest of applicants and stakeholders. Further, the association mentioned that conducting NEET PG 2025 in single shift would increase the fairness, transparancy and uniformity of the entrance examination. 

NEET PG 2025: Drawbacks of Multiple Shift 

FAIMA highlighted that the major drawback of conducting NEET PG in multiple shift is candidates will receive diffrent papers and creating an inequitable platform for aspiritng doctors. The examination in multiple shifts introduces variability in level of difficulty and subject-wise question distribution. 

The association further called normalisation process a topic of debate concerning the reliability and fairness of the entrance examination. The association mentioned that difference in type of questions in the entrance examination leads to anxiety, dissatisfaction for the applicants in the entrance examiantion. 

Further, the association urged that since the examination determines the future of laks of young doctors, this national-level entrance test shall be conducted in uniform and transparent manner. 

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