In a landmark development for medical aspirants, the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) will, for the first time, publish the official answer keys, individual responses, and the normalisation formula for NEET PG 2025. The move follows a Supreme Court directive aimed at bolstering transparency and accountability in large-scale competitive examinations.

The results of NEET PG 2025 were declared on August 19, but this year’s cycle stands apart: never before has NBEMS opened its evaluation process to such scrutiny. Until now, the Board had resisted releasing answer keys, citing risks of exam content misuse.

Transparency in focus

This year, more than 2.42 lakh candidates appeared for NEET PG, held on August 3 across 301 cities and 1,052 centres. With the exam’s vast scale, the Supreme Court emphasized that fairness and clarity in evaluation were non-negotiable.

NBEMS has confirmed that the official answer key, along with candidates’ individual responses, will be hosted on a new online portal. Aspirants will need to log in using their application credentials to access the information. Importantly, the published data will align with a master question set, ensuring that even with randomized question orders and shuffled options, candidates can verify their performance against a uniform benchmark.

Reinforcing trust in evaluation

Alongside the answer keys, NBEMS will also disclose the raw scores and the normalisation method used to standardize results across candidates. The Board said this measure directly addresses longstanding concerns about fairness in evaluation and will strengthen trust in the examination system.

Candidates will be able to download their detailed scorecards from August 29. According to the Supreme Court’s April 29 order in SLP No. 9298 of 2018, NBEMS is now legally bound to make the answer keys, scores, and evaluation methodology public.

By opening up its scoring system for scrutiny, NBEMS is setting a precedent for greater transparency in national-level examinations — a shift many education experts say was long overdue.