Merit cut-off of medical admissions in Gujarat sure to dip by 100 marks

The provisional merit list for medical, dental, ayurvedic, and homeopathic courses was released by the Gujarat admission committee of professional medical educational courses (ACPUGMEC) on Thursday, providing relief to aspiring medical students from across Gujarat.

This year's merit cut-off will probably fall by a minimum of 100 marks compared to the previous year. Even though last year's admission was finally finalized at 430 marks in 2024, this year's cut-off will probably reduce to at least 330 marks, allowing lower-ranked students to secure MBBS seats.

Most of the decline in cut-off scores is observed in the overall candidate performance. The top scorer for last year's NEET test was the state's top scorer at 720 marks, while this year's state's highest merit level stands at only 657 marks — a decline of 63 marks in the highest. This can be observed at colleges such as BJ Medical College, where last year's final open category admission was at 699 marks.

For this year, 25,188 PINs were issued for NEET-based admissions and 24,117 candidates registered. Out of these, 24,845 were subject to the document verification and 736 candidates were disqualified due to other reasons. The final merit list contains 24,374 eligible candidates competing for 15,988 seats in various medical courses.

These 15,988 seats are shared in 6,700 MBBS (medicine), 1,255 BDS (dentistry), 3,473 BAMS (ayurveda) and 8,033 BHMS (homeopathy) seats in a total number of 187 institutions — 38 medical, 13 dental, 44 ayurveda and 92 homeopathy.

As the first round of all-India quota admissions has to be over by Aug 11, choice-filling for Gujarat state quota admissions will commence after Aug 7. Seat allotment under the state quota will probably be conducted after Aug 11.

The merit list reflects mixed representation under different categories like 4,652 candidates from EWS category (2,726 females and 1,926 males), 5,364 from the open category (3,313 females and 2,051 males), and numerous others from SC, ST and SEBC categories, putting together 24,374 eligible candidates.