NEET 2023 Counselling Round 2 Choice Filling and Locking Process Ends Today at 11.55 PM
NEET 2023 counselling Round 2 choice filling and locking process is scheduled to conclude today, August 15. The choice filling process had started on August 10. The choice locking has to be done today, between 3 PM and 11.55 PM. The Round 2 registration process for NEET 2023 counselling was conducted from August 9 to August 14. Know the details here.
NEET 2023 Counselling Round 2 Choice Filling and Locking to End Today
The NEET 2023 counselling Round 2 choice filling and locking process is ending today, August 15 at 11.55 PM. The choice filling process commenced on August 10. The choice locking process has to be completed today, between 3 PM and 11.55 PM. MCC released the seat matrix for the second round.
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Q: What is the schedule for NEET counselling?
The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) released the complete schedule for NEET UG counselling 2024 on July 29, 2024. The process began on August 14, 2024. On September 13, 2024, MCC revised the NEET 2024 counselling dates for Round 2 onwards on account of the change in the seat matrix. The dates for NEET 2024 counselling for the first four rounds, namely, Round 1, Round 2, Round 3 and Stray Vacancy Round have been announced, which concluded November 5, 2024. Later, the NEET 2024 counselling Special Round schedule was announced on November 16, 2024, which is scheduled from Novemver 20 to November 30, 2024.
Each round involves the following stages:
- Registration
- Choice filling and locking
- Result
- Institute reporting
Q: When did NEET 2024 counselling process begin?
NEET 2024 counselling dates were announced by the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) on July 29, 2024. The counselling process started on August 14, 2024, and will conclude on December 30, 2024. NEET 2024 counselling Round 4 was conducted from October 22 to November 5, 2024. The Round 3 was conducted from October 2 to October 19, 2024. The Round 2 registration process began on September 5, 2024 and reopened from September 13 to September 16, 2024. The Round 1 was conducted from August 14 to August 31, 2024. MCC revised the dates on September 13, 2024, with the reopening of the registration process of Round 2 due to the change in seat matrix. As per the revised dates, the last date of the counselling is November 5, 2024. The number of rounds may get extended depending on the number of vacant seats. The state medical authorities will conduct the counselling process for the 85 per cent state quota seats. The dates for counselling were different for the national level and state level admission processes. There will be four to six rounds of NEET counselling, which is the gateway for admission to medical and allied courses such as MBBS, BDS, BAMS, BUMS, BHMS, BSMS and BSc Nursing.
Q: What is the process to register for NEET UG counselling?
The registration process for NEET UG counselling is completely online. The step by step process to register for NEET UG counselling is as follows:
- Visit the official website of MCC – mcc.nic.in
- Click on the ‘New Registration’ tab under the Candidate Activity Board section
- Click on the New Candidate Registration tab
- Read the instructions and click on 'I Agree' check box
- Enter the mandatory details such as NEET UG roll number, NEET UG application number, mother’s name, date of birth and security pin
- Click on 'Submit'
- The credentials will be generated and sent to the registered email address
- Complete the registration form by entering personal, educational, NEET result and other details and uploading of scanned photograph and signature
- Pay the registration fee and take a printout of the registration confirmation page
Candidates must ensure that they have completed the registration process. Otherwise, they would not be able to proceed towards choice filling, which will ultimately result in the non allotment of seats.
How to Fill Choices for NEET Counselling 2023
Candidates will have to follow the below steps to fill choices for NEET UG counselling 2023:
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Visit the official website of MCC – mcc.nic.in.
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Click on the ‘New Registration’ tab and click on ‘Sign in’
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Enter the NEET UG 2023 Roll Number, Password and Security Pin
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Click on the link ‘Available Choices’.
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On clicking the “Choice Filling” icon, the choices as per individual criteria of eligibility would be displayed to the candidate on the left side basket and on clicking the button for the required choice, it will be selected. The choice chosen will be removed from the left basket and gets added to right basket.
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Candidates will have to click on the ‘Save & Continue’ tab.
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Candidates may change the order of preference of choices by clicking on the Upper Arrow/button to move up, Down Arrow button to move down and the Delete button to delete the pre-selected choice of institutes.
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The choice Interchange (Swapping) could be carried out by selecting appropriate choices as source and destination to enable their swapping and reorder all the choices.
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If a candidate desires to delete a specific or a group of choices, the candidate can click the appropriate box, for deletion of the one choice. Further, if the candidate, desires to delete multiple choices, in one go, he/she can click the appropriate boxes for deletion and confirm the same, so that all unwanted choices could be deleted by this operation.
How to Do Choice Locking Process for NEET Counselling 2023
Candidates have to follow the steps given below to complete the choice locking process:
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Visit the official website of MCC – mcc.nic.in
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Click on the tab ‘Online Registration’ at the bottom of the page
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Log in with the registration credentials
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Click on the tab indicating Choice Filling
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Check the entered choices carefully and submit
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Click on the lock button
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If a candidate does not lock the choice submitted by him/her, it will be automatically locked as per schedule
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Take a printout of the locked choices
The Round 2 registration process for NEET 2023 counselling was conducted from August 9 to August 14. MCC will process the seats from August 16 to August 17 and the Round 1 seat allotment result will be declared on August 18. The institute reporting process for this round will be held from August 20 to August 28.
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Q: Who conducts NEET counselling?
The NEET counselling is segregated into two categories, central or national, and state counselling. The central counselling for NEET is conducted by the Medical Counselling Committee or MCC. The NEET counselling process conducted by MCC is for the admission to the 15 per cent All India Quota (AIQ) seats. On the other hand, State Authorities or the Education Department of various states conduct NEET state counselling for the 85 per cent state quota seats. MCC conducts the NEET counselling for MBBS BDS and B.Sc. Nursing courses. On the other hand, the State Counselling Authorities conduct the admission process for MBBS BDS BAMS, BHMS, and other medical or allied courses.
Q: What is the procedure of counselling in NEET?
Q: What is the current scenario of NEET UG Counselling 2024?
The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) is conducting the NEET 2024 counselling Special Stray Vacancy Round 3 from December 23 to December 30, 2024. The provisional and final results were declared on December 24 and December 25. The institute reporting process is being conducted from December 25 to December 30, 2024. There were three MBBS seats for allotment in this round.
The NEET 2024 counselling Special Stray Vacancy Round 2 was conducted from December 9 to December 16, 2024. While the payment and choice filling could be done from December 9 to December 10, the seat allotment result was declared on December 12, 2024. The institute reporting process is being conducted from December 12 to December 16, 2024.
The NEET 2024 Special Stray Vacancy Round 1 counselling was conducted from November 20 to November 30, 2024. The payment process was conducted from November 20 to November 21, 2024. The choice filling and locking rounds were held from November 20 to November 22, 2024. The provisional seat allotment result was declared on November 22, 2024, and the final result was declared on November 23, 2024, followed by the institute reporting process from November 25 to November 30, 2024.
MCC conducted the NEET 2024 counselling Round 4 from October 22 to November 5, 2024. The registration and choice filling process started on October 22 and October 23 respectively. The last dates of registration and choice filling and locking were extended till October 27 from October 25 and October 26 respectively. The provisional and final result was released on October 29 and October 30, 2024, respectively.
The Round 3 was conducted from October 3 to October 19, 2024.
The NEET 2024 counselling Round 2 concluded on September 27, 2024. The round started on September 13, 2024.
The Round 1 of NEET 2024 counselling was conducted from August 14 to August 31, 2024.
MCC had announced that the NEET 2024 counselling dates on July 29, 2024. As of now, four rounds of counselling has been announced, which will conclue on November 5, 2024. The total number of rounds may vary based on the number of vacant seats. Ahead of the commencement of the NEET 2024 counselling process,
Q: What is the eligibility criteria to participate in the NEET counselling process?
The eligibility criteria to participate in the NEET counselling process is given below:
a. They must qualify for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) by securing the cutoff marks as per their category
b. They must be registered on the official website of MCC
c. All candidates, including candidates from the UT of J&K, can participate in the counselling for AIQ seats and deemed universities.
Q: Is it necessary to join allotted Medical/Dental College of Round 1 to get chance to participate in Round 2 of NEET counselling?
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