With just 24 hours left for the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET) PG 2024, the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences or NBEMS issued a notification on Saturday, August 10, explaining the standardized procedure for the preparation of the results.
In the official notice, NBEMS said it has “adopted the process currently used by AIIMS-New Delhi for its various examinations conducted in multiple shifts, including but not limited to INI-CET, in preparation for the result for NEET-PG 2024.”
The NBEMS also referred to the AIIMS Delhi notification dated January 20, 2023, which mentioned that “percentile score is the normalized score for the examination.”
What is percentile score?
According to AIIMS Delhi warningPercentile score is the percentage of candidates who scored AT OR BELOW (raw scores at or below) that particular percentile on that exam.
In other words, the first (highest score) of each group (shift) will get the same percentile out of 100, which is desirable. The marks obtained between the highest and lowest scores are converted into appropriate percentiles.
In addition, percentile scores will be calculated to seven decimal places to avoid clustering and reduce ties, the notice said.
“Under this scoring method, the HIGHEST SCORE on each exam (regardless of raw scores/percentage obtained) will be the 100th percentile, indicating that 100% of candidates obtained a score equal to or lower than the highest scoring/first-ranked candidate in that round,” he added.
Meanwhile, the lowest score would be given a percentile based on the total number of candidates who have appeared for the exam.
Notably, the latest notice from the NBEMS comes just a day after the Supreme Court on Friday rejected the petition seeking postponement of NEET PG 2024. Apart from citing issues related to travel arrangements to the allotted seats, the petitioners had also sought disclosure to the candidates of the standardisation formula of the four sets of question papers to keep at bay any possibility of arbitrariness in the process.
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The apex court, in its verdict, said it could not jeopardise the careers of over 200,000 candidates, adding that the interests of a few petitioners could not prevail over the broader concerns of the vast majority of students and their families.
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