How the INI-CET predictor works

What it does

You enter your INI-CET rank, category and a few details. FindMyBranch then shows which seats at the 19 AIIMS, JIPMER, PGIMER, NIMHANS and SCTIMST are very likely, possible or hard for you. Every answer comes from the official INI-CET seat allocation results published by AIIMS New Delhi, 12 sessions from January 2021 to July 2026, not from guesses.

How it works, in 3 steps

1. Enter your overall INI-CET rank, your category and whether you are a PwBD candidate.
2. Tick any seats kept for candidates like you, then pick the branches you want in your order of liking and the institutes (both optional).
3. See your seats sorted into very likely, possible and hard, each with its closing rank (the INI-CET rank of the last person who got that seat).

The six questions

• Rank. Your overall (All India) rank from the INI-CET result, not your category rank.
• Category. General (UR), OBC, SC, ST or EWS, as on your application. A reserved candidate can also get an open (UR) seat on merit, so the tool checks both.
• PwBD. A PwBD candidate is counted for the open (UR) PwBD seats and their own category's PwBD seats.
• Seats kept for some candidates (optional): AIIMS preference seats for that AIIMS’s own MBBS graduates, JIPMER “Institute” seats for JIPMER graduates, Karnataka domicile seats at NIMHANS, North-East domicile seats, and PGIMER’s Rural Area seats. They count only if you tick them.
• Branches (optional), in the order you like them. With two or more, your results follow that order.
• Institutes (optional). Leave it on “Any institute” to see them all.

Which closing rank a card uses

For each branch at each institute, the tool looks at every seat type you are allowed to take, finds the newest session in which one of them was allotted, and uses the one that closed at the latest rank in that session. The card names the session, the round and the seat type, so you always see a figure you could actually have used. That figure is the worst rank that got the seat in that session, in any of its rounds.

Very likely, possible and hard

The tool compares your rank with that closing rank:

• Very likely: your rank is at least 5% better than the closing rank. For a closing rank of 1,000, that is rank 950 or better.
• Possible: less than 5% better, or up to just under 15% worse (951 to 1,149 in the same example).
• Hard, but has happened: 15% worse or more (1,150 or later).

Inside each group, your branch order comes first (when you picked two or more). Then very likely seats run from the hardest one you still clear, and the others from the closest call.

Two more rules apply to every seat:

• Old figures are held at possible. If a seat you can take was last allotted more than 2 years before the newest session (with the current data, before 2024), it is shown as possible at best, never very likely. The card says the last year it was allotted.
• Seats far out of reach are left out. A seat that closed at under a third of your rank (under half for a rank of 5,000 or later) is not listed. The results only say how many such seats there were.

What is on each card

• The closing rank, with its session, round and seat type, and “your room”: the closing rank minus your rank.
• The fee, bond, penalty for leaving the seat and stipend, only where we found them in the institute’s own prospectus or AIIMS’s notices. A missing line means we do not have it, not that there is none.
• A trend: one bar for each session in which a seat you can take was allotted.
• What residents say about the institute, where we have reports or approved comments.

You can show one group at a time, sort by best seats first, by closing rank or by branch, set a highest fee per year, and show only seats with or without a bond on record.

What it leaves out

• Open-round converted seats (OCS): who may take them is set by each open round’s brochure, so they are not counted as a seat anyone can plan on.
• Sponsored and foreign national seats.
• Any closing rank it would have to guess or borrow from a seat type you cannot take.
• Your age. NIMHANS and SCTIMST have an upper age limit: NIMHANS MD 32 years (OBC 35, SC/ST 37) and MCh 32 years; SCTIMST 40 years. This tool does not check your age.
• The Open Round of July 2022: that session has Round 1 and Round 2 only in our data.

What is free, and what the ₹499 unlock adds

Free: how many seats fall in each group for your answers, and three seats in full: your best seats, with one stretch seat whenever one is in reach. The one-time ₹499 INI-CET unlock shows every seat in every group, and each round’s closing rank in the session a card was judged on. It is a separate purchase: it does not unlock the NEET-PG report, and the NEET-PG report does not unlock it.

Look at the figures yourself

The latest session’s open-category figures are free to browse: INI-CET closing ranks by branch, by institute and by rank. The stipend, bond and penalty for leaving a seat are on INI-CET stipend and bond. New to the process? Read how INI-CET counselling works and how to get the most out of the INI-CET tool.

Questions people ask

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