After NEET....| NEET, 2022 Counselling

NEET, 2022 counselling

Results of NEET, 2022 has been declared by NTA on 7 September, 2022. Now all candidates are waiting for admission into their desired courses like MBBS, BDS, veterinary medicine etc. For this you need to know about the counseling process. In this blog, you will learn about all details of NEET counselling process. 

NEET UG examination (National Eligibility cum entrance test) was conducted on 17 July, 2022. NEET UG is common entrance examination for admission in medical and dental colleges in India for Undergraduate course. Approximately 17.6 lac students had appeared for this examination. Results of NEET 2022 were declared recently on 7 September, 2022. Approximately 9.9 lac candidates were declared qualified in this result. Cut-offs for different categories and All India rank was also declared along with it. We discussed about all these, in our another blog.

Counselling process

The next step in this process, is the counselling process. NEET, 2022 counselling process is expected to begin at the end of September, 2022. Before that, lets get some idea how is the process happening and what a candidate should do. 

Counselling for NEET is handled by another agency called as Medical counseling Committee aka MCC. They provide the counselling process for all NEET candidates. So first lets see how many courses are covered under NEET counselling

MBBS

BDS

B.Sc. Nursing

Veterinary

Homeopathy

Ayurveda

Yunani

Yogic & Naturopathy

Siddha

For admission into all these courses, MCC is responsible. Admission are done through the course of counselling. There are 3 types of counselling according to the type of course.

1. MBBS, BDS and B.Sc. nursing

2. Veterinary

3. Ayush - Ayurveda medicine, homeopathy, yunani, yogic & naturopathy, Siddha

In this also there are two types of counselling, one is All India counselling and another is state-wise counselling. This is because all colleges and institutions have seat quota reserved for its state students. In all government medical colleges, state quota is 85% whereas, All India quota is 15%. This means that for example if a college has 100 MBBS seats, 85 seats are reserved for students of that state and the remaining 15 seats can be allotted to any other candidate. 

MCC conducts counselling for particular seats and colleges based on NEET scores. The colleges for which MCC holds counselling are as follows:

For the information of state quota counselling, you need to check respective website of state committee for Medical counselling. The process for which will be almost similar to that of MCC.

Seat matrix

The seat matrix of colleges pan India is an important aspetc. Because the number of seats available in medical colleges will decide how many chances are there to secure a seat in that college. MCC is yet to declare the seat matrix, but it can be expected from last year’s seat matrix. The expected seat matrix is tabulated below.

Apart from this 52,720 seats for AYUSH are open for application. For government B.Sc. Nursing, 487 seats will be open for NEET UG counselling.

After understanding the seat matrix and seat allotment procedure, let's get into the steps required for getting into these colleges. 

Steps to get into counselling

• All the counselling process will be conducted online on the MCC website. Till now you all have been dealing with NTA websites for registration for NEET,2022 and then to check results. But now you have to redirect yourself to MCC website. It is https://mcc.nic.in/ . You need to keep an eye on this website to see if the counselling process has started or not. Once MCC begins the process, you will get a notification on the homepage of the official website. Go through it, to know the whole process.

• You will find a tab ‘NEET UG medical counselling' on the website. Click on it to register. You need to add all your personal information that was required in NEET registration as well as NEET seat number. As you complete your registration, a password will be generated. Save the name and password. It will be needed for further processing.

• After registration, next step is to pay the counselling fees. MCC takes counselling fees. Some part of this fee is refundable and some is non refundable. Refundable fee is taken as security, if you get admission this fee will be settled of in the admission procedure. The non refundable part is the actual counselling fee, which will not be refunded even after admission.

• For candidates of general or unreserved category, 11,000 ruoees are to be paid. In these, 10,000 are refundable and 1000 is the non refundable amount. Candidates from SC and ST cast have to pay 5500 rupees, here 500 are non refundable amount and 5000 are refundable. Similarly different amounts will be there for physical handicapped candidates as well students who have selected deemed university or private colleges.

• For the payment of counselling fees, log into the MCC website using your name and password. Pay the applicable amount using NetBanking, Credit card or Debit card.

• Next step is of choice filling. This is a very crucial step. Here you have to select Colleges you are willing to take admission in, and give them preference number. Admission will be given on the basis of colleges selected and the order. You have to be very thoughtful while making this selection. Certain points should be kept in mind during this step.

1. Your All India Rank

2. Your percentile

3. Previous year cut-off percentile of the college of your choice.

• After selecting the college or university of your choice, next you have to lock your choices. This will freeze the choices you made. After this step you cannot change any college selected. So be very mindful during this step.

• This step is the final step. MCC will declare the seat allotment result on its official website. This will be in the form of a data sheet where you can check your all India rank and the college allotted. The data is kept open so that no student feel any problem with the allotment process.

• After this you’ll be called to the college with your original documents for personal counselling. Here you’ll be paying the admission fees of your course if you want to take admission to the allotted college.

Counselling rounds

NEET UG counselling is done in 4 rounds. 

Round 1: If in this round you get admission to selected college, you can take the admission and take exit from the counselling rounds. If you expect better college then the allotted one, then you can also choose to upgrade. So that you might get admission to the college you want in following round.

Round 2 : if you don’t select the admission in this round to your allotted seat, then you are supposed to make a fresh registration to join in the further rounds.

Mop up round

Stray vacancy round : earlier the seats remaining during round one and two were declared back to the state quota but now they’re used up in the mop-up round and stray vacancy round.

The details of the process is yet to be declared by MCC on its official website. This is the approximate process based on the events of last year admission process after NEET,2021. 

The whole process of getting admission into the college of your choice cannot be very easy, so don’t lose hope and stay strong during this. Take advice from your parents and teachers during choice filling. We hope after reading this article, your doubts about NEET UG counselling are solved. If you still have any queries, please contact us in the comment box below. We are happy to help.

Stay happy and stay healthy!

Thank you for reading!

Urvashi Bhanushali
M.Sc, Microbiology