India, June 3 -- The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Postgraduate 2025 (NEET-PG 2025), which will be previously scheduled to be held in two shifts on June 15, will now be conducted in a single shift on August 3, the National Board of Examination in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) told in the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

The board's decision comes days after a bench headed by justice Vikram Nath on May 30 set aside its decision to hold the examination in two shifts, ruling that the two-shift model was "arbitrary" since any two question papers could never be said to be have an "identical level of difficulty or ease". The bench gave NBEMS two weeks to identify more centres for this purpose.

The board, which sought the top court's approval to ...