NEET-PG counselling FAQ
What is a closing rank, exactly?
It is the rank of the last candidate allotted that seat in one particular round, in one particular category, under one particular quota. It records what happened; it is not a cutoff announced in advance. Treat it as a floor: if a seat went to someone ranked worse than you last year, that is useful evidence, not a guarantee you will get it this year.
Is a good NEET-PG rank enough, or does the round matter too?
The round matters enormously. The same seat routinely closes at one rank in Round 1 and at a far worse rank in a stray vacancy round of the same year, because by then only scattered seats remain and most candidates have settled. Late-round numbers are real allotments but depend on a particular seat being vacant at a particular moment, so they are not something to plan around.
Can I work out my category's closing rank from the general one?
No, and any tool that does is inventing numbers. Each category runs its own queue and the gap between them is wildly inconsistent across programmes: sometimes close, sometimes an order of magnitude apart, occasionally reversed. FindMyBranch only ever shows a recorded allotment for your own category, and shows nothing where none exists.
Do I register separately for All India Quota and state counselling?
Yes. MCC runs the All India Quota, central institutions, deemed universities and DNB seats. Your state authority runs the state quota. They are separate registrations on separate calendars, and registering for one does not enter you for the other. Candidates lose seats every year to this assumption.
Is a DNB seat worse than an MD or MS?
For most specialties the qualification is treated as equivalent for practice and for teaching eligibility. The real differences are in where you train and what the case mix looks like: DNB seats sit in hospitals rather than colleges, some in large public hospitals with heavy volume, some in smaller private ones. Judge the individual hospital, not the letters.
Why does a Tamil Nadu cutoff look nothing like an All India cutoff?
Because Tamil Nadu does not rank candidates by All India Rank. Its Selection Committee publishes its own merit rank, usually called the GRANK, which is a position within the pool that applied to Tamil Nadu. A Tamil Nadu closing rank and an MCC closing rank are different scales and cannot be compared. Puducherry's CENTAC, by contrast, does use the All India Rank.
Why do some Tamil Nadu seats look reachable at ranks nobody gets them at?
Tamil Nadu's government quota lists include in-service candidates, who are allotted through a service reservation at much worse ranks and appear in the same published list. In some years they are a third to a half of the rows. Pool them in and a seat looks far softer than it is for a fresh graduate. FindMyBranch excludes them.
What is the difference between quota and college ownership?
They are independent. An All India Quota seat at a private college is a merit seat at government-like fees. A management seat at that same college is institution-priced. So 'private college' does not mean expensive by itself, and 'government quota' does not mean government college: several states, Tamil Nadu included, put state quota seats inside self-financing colleges.
Why can't I find some Puducherry colleges in CENTAC data?
Because they are deemed universities, and deemed university seats are filled entirely by MCC rather than by any state or union territory authority. They are still Puducherry colleges you may be choosing between, so FindMyBranch shows them as a separate section on the Puducherry results, scored from MCC records against your All India Rank.
How far back does FindMyBranch's data go, and where is it from?
It is built from official allotment result documents: every MCC result from 2020 to 2025, the Tamil Nadu Selection Committee lists, and CENTAC's Puducherry lists. Nothing is scraped from other predictor sites and nothing is modelled. Coverage is not uniform: some older state years exist only as a single combined final list, and where that is the case the result card says so rather than implying it is a Round 1 number.
Can a rank predictor tell me what I will get?
No, and be wary of one that claims otherwise. Nobody knows this year's seat matrix, this year's candidate preferences or who will withdraw. What historical allotments can tell you is which options are realistic enough to put high on a choice list and which are fantasy, which is the decision actually in front of you during choice filling.
What does FindMyBranch cost?
The preview is free. A one-time payment of ₹499 unlocks the complete ranked list for your rank, with the year and round behind every number, and the Check your college page. There is no subscription and no renewal.
Still the same question: what can my rank actually get? That is the one the tool answers, from the real allotment records.
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