NMC draft takeaway regarding NEXT exam

A draft containing information regarding the December 28, 2022 NExT examination has been made available by the NMC. The beginning of the NExT examinations does not have a particular date, year, or batch. It has two sections called “Steps.”

NEXT 1

Step 1 of NEXT 1 will be a: licensing exam The post-graduation entrance exam NExT will be offered to all IMGs and FMGEs. If the need arises, the NEET-PG and NExT may operate concurrently. If not, NEET will be discontinued and NExT will be organized instead.

NExT 1 will be a three-day, online, MCQ-based theoretical exam with one or more MCQ types. There will be two sessions per day for each of the six papers. Over the course of three days, there will be 120 questions in the pre-lunch session, which lasts three hours and covers subjects such as medicine and related fields, surgery and related fields, obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatrics, ENT, and ophthalmology. The exam will also cover applied aspects of subjects taught in the first, second, and third years.

Eligibility: The exam is open to students who have completed an accredited medical school’s third and fourth MBBS courses.

After the regular NEXT 1, there will be a second NEXT 1. Both will be held one time each year. A student must take the regular NEXT 1 exam the following year if they fail both.

If a student has passed both the NEXT 1 and NEXT 2 exams within ten years of enrolling in the MBBS course, the number of attempts is not limited.

The number of times an applicant may attempt to improve their scores on the NEXT 1 Regular Examination is unrestricted, provided that the examinations are taken at least one year after the completion of NExT 2.

The university’s final professional year exam will be replaced by NEXT 1.

NEXT 2

NExT Step 2 will continue to be a practical/clinical/viva-voce exam with a pass or fail format and no scoring system for third- and fourth-year university students. Obstetrics and gynecology, ENT, ophthalmology, pediatrics, orthopedics, preventive medicine, and PMR (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation) are among the subjects covered.

The objectively structured, clinical case-based, simulated cases/patients of the NExT 2 exam are intended to assess the practical/clinical, clinical decision-making, and communication abilities expected of an Indian medical graduate.

The state’s Health Commission/University will conduct a live examination.

An additional NExT 2 exam will be given after the regular NExT 2 exam.

If a student fails more than three subjects, they won’t be able to take the NExT 2 supplementary exam and will have to take the NExT regular exam again the next year.

There is no limit on how many times you can try.

NExT scoring system The grades for NExT 1 will be based on a whole-number system. The format of NExT 2 will be pass or fail.

Passing score minimum:

At least half is expected to pronounce the understudy as pass. Each subject should be covered separately. The scores do not add up.

A total raw score from all passed subjects will be used as the final score and ranked accordingly when the score is used for post-graduation admission.

The score of the supplementary exam will be considered in the event of a subject failure.

The final score for a candidate who has attempted multiple times will be the average or mean of the last three scores. The validity of NExT scores is three years.

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Schedule

Although the exact schedule of the examination is not clear, the proposed schedule is as follow:

Particular	Date
NExT 1 regular examination	2nd week of December
NExT 1 Supplementary	Not mentioned
Final professional university practicals	1st week of January
Internship	1st February
NExT 2 regular examination	2nd week of March
NExT 2 supplementary	Not mentioned
Post graduate admission	May to June
Post graduate course commences	1st July