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AFMC has reservation is only for SC/ST category candidates. Ten seats out of 130 are reserved for SC/ST candidates. The following procedure is followed for admission of SC/ST candidates against the reserved seats subject to fulfilling the following criteria: -
(a) The SC/ST candidates must have applied to AFMC Pune and also qualified in the NEET7 written examination and should have come within the zone to be called up for interview.
(b) If shortlisted and called for the screening at AFMC, they must come within the first 500 in the final combined merit list of boys and girls.
(c) They must fulfill all other conditions/standards, as applicable to non-SC/ST candidates, like age eligibility, academic qualification, medical fitness, etc.
(d) These reserved seats are in addition to any vacancies secured by SC/ST candidates on the basis of their position in the merit lists.
(e) In case of any SC/ST girl/boy, admitted against reserved vacancies the number of girls/boys to be admitted against the general seats is reduced correspondingly.
(f) All such candidates have to sign a surety bond on the same lines and on the same conditions as non-SC/ST candidates.

NEET (National Eligibility cum entrance test): NEET is the single entrance examination in the country for admissions to MBBS and BDS programmes, as per Supreme Court's directive in 2016.
Candidates can check below eligibility criteria for NEET 2017:
Earlier, CBSE had said that the number of attempts a candidate can avail at NEET is limited to three and candidates who had already exhausted their three attempts will not be eligible to appear in NEET 2017. However, as per a new notification released on February 3, 2017, CBSE has rolled back a limitation of three attempts and the examination taken in 2017 will be treated as the first attempt irrespective of previous attempts
The candidate must have completed the age of 17 years at the time of admission or will complete the age on or before 31st December 2017 i.e. the year of his/her admission to the 1st year MBBS/BDS.
Indian Nationals, Non-Resident Indians (NRIs), Overseas Citizen of India (OCIs), Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs) & Foreign Nationals are eligible for appearing in the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (UG), 2017.
There will be no maximum age limit for NEET 2017 as per the SC order passed on March 31, 2017.
The candidate must have passed Physics, Chemistry, Biology/Biotechnology and English individually and must have obtained a minimum of 50% taken together in Physics, Chemistry and Biology/ Biotechnology at the qualifying examination. For candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribes or Other Backward Classes, the marks obtained in Physics, Chemistry and Biology/Biotechnology taken together in qualifying examination must be minimum 40% instead of 50% for General candidates. Further, for persons with locomotor disability of lower limbs, the minimum of 45% marks for General-PH and 40% marks for SC-PH/ST-PH/OBC-PH are required.
The candidates appearing for Class XII examination in 2017 can also appear for the entrance test provisionally subject to their fulfilling the conditions later.
Minimum Percentage required in 10+2 for candidates:
General-50%
SC/ST/OBC-40%
PH/PWD-45%