India Lowers NEET-PG Cut-Offs to Fill Vacant Postgraduate Medical Seats

India's National Board of Examinations lowered the NEET-PG 2025 qualifying cut-off marks significantly to fill over 18,000 vacant postgraduate medical and dental seats. The General EWS cut-off dropped from the 50th to the 7th percentile, and SC/ST/OBC from the 40th to the 0th percentile, allowing candidates with very low scores to be eligible for counselling. While the government and Indian Medical Association support this to optimize seat utilization, resident doctors' groups criticize the move as arbitrary and harmful to medical training quality and profession credibility.