🩺 At a glance:
The Supreme Court just slammed the two-shift schedule for NEET PG 2025, calling it “arbitrary and unfair”. Why? Because your future as a doctor shouldn’t depend on whether your MCQ paper was held at 9AM or 2PM. With AIIMS-level pressure and railway-platform-level crowd management, India’s medical dream factory might just need an urgent surgery itself.

🧠 What’s the issue, doc?

Here’s the situation, scalpel-sharp:

• NEET PG 2025 is scheduled in two shifts.
• One candidate writes their paper in the morning.
• Another writes in the afternoon.
• Both compete for the same rank list.

Result?

👉 Paper difficulty may vary.
👉 Normalization process = mystery.
👉 Anxiety = 12/10.
👉 Justice = 🤷

Even the Supreme Court seems to be asking: “Is this MBBS or lottery ticket distribution?”

🧑‍⚖️ What did the Supreme Court say?

In classic courtroom sarcasm (they’re catching on to the EduInvesting tone), Justice Vikram Nath remarked:

“Why have two shifts? It creates arbitrariness. You’re comparing two different papers and evaluating them on the same scale.”

Translation: You can’t have two players bowling on two different pitches and then compare strike rates.

And here’s the punchline:

“We want to understand the rationale behind holding two shifts in the same exam on the same day.”

Spoiler: There probably isn’t one. Except, of course, logistical jugaad.

🧪 NBE’s defense: “We do normalization”

The National Board of Examinations (NBE), the same folks who brought you:

• Technical glitches
• Server crashes
• Heart attacks in coaching hostels

…told the court that they “normalize scores” between the two shifts.

Ah, yes. The good old “normalization” trick.

🎯 Problem?
They refused to disclose the formula.

So it’s basically like saying:

“Trust me bro, we’re totally fair. You wouldn’t understand the maths anyway.”

Mathematical gaslighting? 100%.

🎓 Why it matters

Because this isn’t just an exam. It’s THE exam.

• NEET PG decides medical postgraduate admissions in India.
• Your rank can make or break your entire career.
• One extra mark can mean AIIMS Delhi or no seat at all.
• Candidates spend ₹10L+ on coaching, live away from home, and survive on caffeine and existential dread.

So yeah. Shift bias isn’t a minor glitch. It’s a potential career accident.

🧑‍⚕️ Meet the Petitioners

A group of aggrieved candidates dragged the issue to court saying:

• Different shift papers have different levels of difficulty.
• The NBE refuses to share answer keys, which makes transparency a joke.
• Unlike UPSC or IIT-JEE, NEET PG is conducted like a black-box lottery.

Their demand?

👉 Hold exam in one shift.
👉 If not, disclose question papers, answer keys, and normalization logic.

Seems fair, right?

Except NBE’s response is basically: “You’ll take what we give you. Be grateful.”

📊 How many people are affected?

NEET PG is no small side hustle. It’s a full-blown national gladiator battle:

• ~2 lakh candidates appear every year.
• Compete for just 40,000 PG medical seats.
• Of which ~15,000 are government quota.

Which means:

🩻 85% of candidates are doomed anyway.
Now you want to add arbitrary shift bias too?

That’s like pushing someone off a cliff and then arguing over the angle of impact.

🔎 Comparison: How do other exams do it?

Let’s do a quick table breakdown:

Only NEET PG says:
“Trust the system. Also, don’t ask what the system is.”

📉 What are the consequences?

If you’re still wondering why this matters, let’s break it down:

• Psychological impact: Shift anxiety = lower performance
• Legal mess: Potential re-exam orders? Petitions? Delays?
• Loss of faith: Medical aspirants already have enough pressure — do we need this added chaos?

In fact, NEET PG aspirants often trend on Twitter with hashtags like:

• #ScrapNEETPG
• #NEETPGNormalizationScam
• #JusticeForDoctors

🧨 Will the exam be delayed or changed?

As of now:

• NEET PG 2025 is scheduled to be held on 23 June 2025.
• Admit cards? Not yet out.
• Legal hearing? Ongoing.

Depending on how spicy the Supreme Court gets, we could see:

✅ A forced change in schedule
✅ Mandatory release of question sets and keys
✅ (Least likely) Postponement of the exam

The Court has not yet ordered a stay — but that could change fast if NBE’s logic doesn’t check out.

🏥 EduInvesting Take: This is not a test, it’s a circus

Let’s be honest:

• You can’t run a doctor selection process like it’s a slot machine.
• If a shift difference can ruin a student’s chance at becoming a surgeon, the system is the disease.
• Normalization is NOT an excuse to hide transparency.

If NBE believes their formula works, they should publish it.

After all, if future doctors are being selected using AI-style black-box algorithms, we might as well say:

“Congratulations! You’ve cleared NEET PG 2025. Your speciality will be decided by ChatGPT’s mood.”

🧠 What students want

Let’s list their demands clearly:

• ✍️ Single-shift exam (like UPSC)
• 🧾 Release of answer keys
• 📊 Public normalization formula
• 🧑‍⚖️ Independent oversight panel

And most importantly:

🫱 Transparency over tyranny.

Because the last thing India needs is good doctors being filtered by bad management.

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