NEET PG 2026 Round 1: SC Radiology AIQ seats closed at 5,780, GEN at 792

In NEET PG 2026 Round 1, the typical All India Quota (AIQ) MD Radio Diagnosis seat in the GEN category closed at rank 792. The typical SC seat in the same branch closed at 5,780, about 7.3 times later. For OBC the figure was 1,282, for EWS 1,618 and for ST 12,024.

A later closing rank means a seat was easier to get. Every rank in this article is the NEET PG All India Rank, the same scale for all categories, so the numbers can be compared directly.

How we compared

We used the Round 1 closing ranks in our seat data, which come from MCC's Round 1 allotment result.

• Seats: AIQ seats only, in the five main categories: GEN, EWS, OBC, SC and ST. PwD seats are left out; they are few and need their own look.
• Per branch: for each category we took the median closing rank, so half the listings closed earlier and half later. A listing is one college, branch and category with its own closing rank.
• Which branches: only branches with at least 40 GEN listings and at least 10 listings in each of the other four categories. That leaves 19 MD/MS branches.

Across all AIQ seats, the median closing rank was 11,655 for GEN, 14,751 for EWS, 15,972 for OBC, 32,547 for SC and 51,793 for ST.

The gap, branch by branch

The "x" columns show how many times later the median category seat closed than the median GEN seat.

Branch	GEN	OBC	EWS	SC	ST	OBC x	EWS x	SC x	ST x
Radio Diagnosis	792	1,282	1,618	5,780	12,024	1.6	2.0	7.3	15.2
Dermatology	1,378	2,304	3,216	8,471	18,078	1.7	2.3	6.1	13.1
General Medicine	1,494	2,597	2,563	11,045	20,633	1.7	1.7	7.4	13.8
Paediatrics	4,812	7,142	7,190	20,324	34,518	1.5	1.5	4.2	7.2
OBG	6,456	9,266	9,160	23,926	34,139	1.4	1.4	3.7	5.3
General Surgery	6,951	9,917	10,461	27,235	49,788	1.4	1.5	3.9	7.2
TB and Respiratory Medicine	7,397	10,460	14,385	24,282	45,792	1.4	1.9	3.3	6.2
Orthopaedics	8,145	11,412	12,279	28,141	49,264	1.4	1.5	3.5	6.0
Psychiatry	9,147	13,337	18,454	23,900	50,882	1.5	2.0	2.6	5.6
Radiation Oncology	9,234	12,044	16,308	29,918	46,138	1.3	1.8	3.2	5.0
Ophthalmology	11,766	16,709	18,672	35,022	56,516	1.4	1.6	3.0	4.8
ENT	12,656	16,819	20,681	35,438	57,841	1.3	1.6	2.8	4.6
Anaesthesiology	16,990	21,300	22,050	40,884	63,735	1.3	1.3	2.4	3.8
Pathology	30,944	39,342	49,644	59,394	88,182	1.3	1.6	1.9	2.8
Community Medicine (SPM)	49,066	57,980	67,314	81,485	122,277	1.2	1.4	1.7	2.5
Pharmacology	51,085	63,108	68,940	81,768	131,669	1.2	1.3	1.6	2.6
Forensic Medicine	53,904	66,705	82,000	86,864	116,846	1.2	1.5	1.6	2.2
Microbiology	56,292	69,929	91,705	92,973	138,109	1.2	1.6	1.7	2.5
Biochemistry	68,338	83,550	104,762	99,129	145,390	1.2	1.5	1.5	2.1

The pattern is clear. In the branches where GEN seats closed earliest, the category gaps are largest. In Radiology the median ST seat closed more than 15 times later than the GEN seat. In Biochemistry, where GEN seats closed late anyway, the ST seat closed about twice as late.

The multiples shrink partly because GEN seats in these branches already close late: the GEN median was between 49,066 and 68,338 in Community Medicine, Pharmacology, Forensic Medicine, Microbiology and Biochemistry.

OBC and EWS: close, but EWS usually later

OBC and EWS seats sit close to GEN in every branch. The OBC median closed 1.2 to 1.7 times later than GEN, and the EWS median 1.3 to 2.3 times later.

EWS seats closed later than OBC seats in 17 of the 19 branches. The two exceptions were General Medicine (OBC 2,597, EWS 2,563) and OBG (OBC 9,266, EWS 9,160), where the medians were almost the same. In Dermatology, Psychiatry and the non-clinical branches, the EWS median was well behind OBC.

Same college, same branch

Medians mix different colleges. To check the pattern seat by seat, we matched each category listing with the GEN listing at the same college and branch.

• OBC: 1,843 pairs. The OBC seat closed later in all of them, typically 3,445 ranks later (1.38 times).
• EWS: 889 pairs. Later in all of them, typically 4,254 ranks later (1.64 times).
• SC: 1,213 pairs. Later in all of them, typically 19,511 ranks later (3.47 times).
• ST: 625 pairs. Later in all of them, typically 36,251 ranks later (6.76 times).

So at no college in Round 1 did a category seat close earlier than the GEN seat in the same branch. In Radiology, the last AIQ GEN seat closed at 3,058, while SC seats closed anywhere from 539 to 12,511.

You can see these seats sorted by closing rank, here for SC:

What this means for Round 2

These are Round 1 numbers. Round 2 includes newly added seats and seats left vacant after Round 1, so the closing ranks can change. MCC's Round 2 seat matrix changes are covered in our News section.

Keep in mind that the median hides a wide range. A category candidate should look at the actual college list for their branch, not only the typical rank. The category cutoff pages list every college, and the rank checker below shows which 2026 Round 1 seats closed at or after your rank.