National Board of examination conducts NEET MDS exam admission to various MDS programmes. NEET-MDS is an eligibility-cum-ranking examination prescribed as the single entrance examination to various post graduate MDS Courses under Dentists Act, 1948.
NEET MDS is a single window entrance examination for Dental PG courses. No other entrance examination, either at state or institution level, shall be valid for entry to MDS Courses as per Dentists Act, 1948
Scope OF NEET MDS
NEET MDS will be the single eligibility cum entrance examination namely -National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test - for admission to Postgraduate Dental Courses for the academic session which will include the following:
All India 50% quota seats for MDS courses (all states except Andhra Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Telangana)
State quota seats for MDS courses for all States/Union territories of India (including the states of Andhra Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Telangana)
MDS Diploma courses at all Private Dental Colleges, Institutions & Universities all across the country
MDS courses at Armed Forces Medical Services Institutions.
Note: No state government or private dental college/universities including the states of Jammu & Kashmir, Telangana & Andhra Pradesh shall be conducting any separate entrance exam for admission to their MDS Courses for admission
The following Institution is not covered by centralized admissions for MDS seats through NEET MDS
i. AIIMS, New Delhi