NEW DELHI: The National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences has declared the allotment result of the Final (Mop-up) Round of online centralised merit-based counselling for FNB courses of the 2025 admission session. A bilingual notice dated 25 September 2026 says the result can be viewed through the link on the notice and at https://counseling.nbe.edu.in.
Candidates allotted seats in the Final (Mop-up) Round must join the allotted institute and course within the time fixed in the counselling schedule. After allotment, they must download the Seat Allotment Letter from the NBEMS Counselling Portal and report to the allotted institute by 1 October 2026. Documents required for joining and other details are in the Handbook for Centralized Merit-based Online Counselling for Admission to FNB Seats - 2025 Admission Session.
What happens if a candidate does not join
If a candidate fails to join the allotted institute within the stipulated time, fails to produce original documents for verification, or fails to fulfil the eligibility criteria during verification, admission to that seat will be cancelled. The amount deposited as course fee will also be forfeited, the notice says. The notice makes no provision for joining after 1 October.
Seat allotment is provisional. It remains subject to fulfilment of eligibility criteria, verification of original documents at the time of joining, and final checks before NBEMS issues a Final Registration Number. If any deficiency or ineligibility is found at any stage before the Final Registration Number is issued, both the candidature and the provisionally allotted seat are liable to be cancelled.
Where to read the result and handbook
Open https://counseling.nbe.edu.in for the mop-up allotment list and download the Seat Allotment Letter from the candidate login after checking the published result. The list of documents needed at joining is in the FNB 2025 counselling handbook linked from the notice. Queries should go through the NBEMS Communication Web Portal at https://exam.natboard.edu.in/communication.php?page=main.
How the mop-up round was run
NBEMS announced the Final (Mop-up) Round in a notice dated 15 September, under Chapter 3 of the FNB counselling handbook. Eligible candidates filled choices from 18 to 21 September up to 5:00 PM, allotment was processed from 22 to 24 September, the result came on 25 September, and physical joining at the allotted hospital runs from 25 September to 1 October. Only candidates already registered for counselling who had not been allotted a seat in the first or second round could take part.
The indicative seat matrix for the round, dated 18 September, lists about 250 seats across 163 hospital and specialty entries. Interventional Cardiology and Minimal Access Surgery carry the most seats, followed by Head and Neck Oncology, Cardiac Electrophysiology, Onco-Anaesthesia and Paediatric Anaesthesia. Most of the seats are in private hospitals, with a smaller number in state government institutions such as Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar.
The 15 September notice also told hospitals to keep joining and resignation status current on the NBEMS counselling portal, and to record any resignation by 5:00 PM on 17 September so the vacated seat could go into the mop-up pool. It repeated that a candidate who does not join by 1 October loses the FNB seat and forfeits the first-year course fee.
The full details are in the NBEMS mop-up allotment notice.
