How our comparison works

A plain-language explanation of what the Doctors Academy NEET PG Speciality Predictor does, what it does not do, and where its limits are.

What the tool does

You enter your NEET PG All-India Rank (AIR), your category and a few preferences. The tool finds past counselling allotments that match, groups them by college, course, quota, round and seat category, and shows how each group’s closing rank compares with your rank.

It is a historical comparison. It is not a prediction of where you will be admitted and it does not produce a probability or percentage chance.

Data sources

Every row comes from published counselling allotment lists: MCC for the All-India quota, and the Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana counselling authorities for their state lists. See the Data Sources page for the list and links.

Years and rounds covered

Currently one counselling cycle (2025; Telangana is 2024-25). Because there is only one year, the tool does not show year-on-year trends, and it will not claim one. When more official years are added, trends will only be shown where enough years exist to support them.

MCC results are included for Round 3 and Stray Vacancy, plus Round 1 and 2 management (deemed) and NRI seats. The state lists include all of their published rounds. Kerala’s “Third Phase” is Kerala’s own counselling event, not MCC Round 3.

Category and quota logic

A closing rank is only meaningful within one seat category, so you are compared against seats of the categories you can contest: open seats for everyone, plus the reserved category you belong to (EWS, OBC, SC or ST). An open seat that was taken by a reserved-category candidate still counts as an open seat.

Seats with no category information in the source are left out of the comparison rather than guessed. PwD seats are kept as a separate pool. Institutional quotas (for example DU, IP, AMU, BHU, minority and Armed Forces seats) are labelled separately so they do not inflate the open All-India cutoffs.

State counselling

All-India (MCC) and state counselling are different processes with different rules, so they are kept apart and labelled. Karnataka seats are placed in the state bucket on a best-effort basis, because the source columns do not say whether a seat is state or All-India quota. This is flagged in the report.

Comparison bands

Each group is labelled by the ratio of its closing rank to your rank: “Well below” when the last seat there went to a rank clearly worse than yours, “Near” when it went to a rank close to yours, and “Above” when it went to a better rank than yours. The boundaries are a heuristic. They have not been backtested, which is why no probability or confidence percentage is shown.

Missing data and outliers

If there is no matching historical record, the report says so instead of showing a guess. Cancelled and withdrawn allotments are excluded, and re-listed allotments are not counted twice. The closing rank is the worst rank admitted in that exact pool, so a single unusual allotment can widen it.

Seat matrix and fees

The tool does not adjust for seat-matrix changes between years, and it does not filter by fee: there is no verified per-college fee dataset. Your budget is passed to the counselling team only. Where a deemed university’s fee table was supplied, the fee is shown as printed and marked unverified.

Limitations

One counselling year only. College ownership and state are estimated from names for institutes without verified metadata, and are marked “estimated”. Some Karnataka and Kerala seat codes are not decoded, so those rows are left out. Future counselling can behave differently from past counselling.

How data is updated

Data is parsed from the official published PDFs by a scripted pipeline, validated for duplicates and impossible values, and then published with the app. The last-updated date and coverage are shown on this site. New cycles are added only from official sources.