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The Kinase Glossary defines 37+ terms across NEET-PG and INICET — exam terminology, NBEMS and AIIMS rules, common abbreviations, high-yield subjects and Kinase platform features. Each entry is short, sourced from official NBEMS / NMC documents where applicable, and cross-linked to the topic or exam page it relates to.
Exam Terminology
- All India Rank (AIR)
- A candidate's position among everyone who took NEET-PG, used in counselling. Every NEET-PG rank is unique: candidates with the same score are separated by tie-breaking rules, so one score covers a range of ranks.
- CBT
- Computer-Based Test — the format of both NEET-PG and INICET. Candidates answer every question on a computer at a designated test centre; there is no paper-based option.
- Cut-off
- Either the qualifying cut-off — the minimum score to be eligible for counselling, set by percentile — or the counselling cut-off, the closing rank for a particular branch and college. The counselling cut-off for sought-after branches is far above the qualifying line.
- INICET
- Institute of National Importance Combined Entrance Test — conducted twice a year (May and November) by AIIMS New Delhi for postgraduate seats at AIIMS institutions, JIPMER, NIMHANS, PGIMER and SCTIMST. It has 200 MCQs in 4 sections of 50, marked +1 / −1/3, over 3 hours.
- Memory-Based Recall Paper
- A reconstructed NEET-PG or INICET question paper compiled from candidate recollections after the exam. Because the official papers are not released, recalls are the main source for analysing exam patterns and building previous-year question banks.
- NEET-PG
- National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test for Postgraduate medical admissions — conducted once a year by NBEMS for most MD, MS and PG diploma seats in India. The 2026 paper had 180 MCQs in 5 timed sections of 36, marked +4 / −1, for 720 marks.
- Negative Marking
- A scoring rule where wrong answers reduce the total. NEET-PG deducts 1 mark per wrong answer (+4 for correct); INICET deducts 1/3 mark (+1 for correct). A blind guess among four options is worth +0.25 marks on average in NEET-PG and exactly zero in INICET.
- Percentile
- The share of candidates scoring below a given mark. The NEET-PG 50th-percentile score is the median — 262 out of 720 in 2026 — so a candidate at the 50th percentile outscored half of the field.
- Qualifying Percentile
- The minimum percentile needed to be eligible for counselling. NEET-PG uses the 50th percentile for General / EWS, 45th for General-PwBD and 40th for SC / ST / OBC; in 2026 these were 262, 244 and 226 out of 720. INICET uses the 50th and 45th percentiles.
- Section Locking
- The NEET-PG rule that each timed section closes when its time ends — 42 minutes per section in 2026 — and cannot be reopened. Questions flagged for review must be answered before the section closes. INICET also times each of its 4 sections separately.
Organisations
- AIIMS New Delhi
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi — conducts INICET for postgraduate admission to AIIMS institutions, JIPMER, NIMHANS, PGIMER and SCTIMST, and publishes INICET schedules, prospectuses and results on aiimsexams.ac.in.
- MCC
- Medical Counselling Committee — conducts All India Quota counselling for NEET-PG on mcc.nic.in, typically in several rounds (Round 1, Round 2, Round 3 and a stray-vacancy round). States run their own counselling for state-quota seats.
- NBEMS
- National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences — the autonomous body under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare that conducts NEET-PG and other national medical examinations, and publishes NEET-PG results and scorecards on natboard.edu.in.
- NMC
- National Medical Commission — the statutory body that regulates medical education and practice in India, including the postgraduate curriculum that NEET-PG and INICET test.
Process & Pathway
- Counselling
- The seat-allotment process after NEET-PG results: qualified candidates register, fill choices of branches and colleges, and are allotted seats by rank. All India Quota counselling is run by MCC; state-quota seats are allotted by each state.
- Repeater
- A candidate re-attempting NEET-PG or INICET to improve their rank. Repeaters usually do best by starting from a baseline test, working their weakest subjects through previous-year questions and taking full-length timed mocks in the final months.
- Scorecard
- The individual NEET-PG result document showing a candidate's score and rank. For NEET-PG 2026, scorecards were released on 1 October 2026 on natboard.edu.in and remain downloadable for six months.
Kinase Features
- AI Exam Countdown Planner
- Kinase's adaptive study planner that builds a day-by-day schedule from the exam date, current performance and remaining question pool, and redistributes missed practice across the days that remain.
- Bookmarks
- A Kinase feature for saving questions to a personal collection for later review, organised by subject.
- Custom Test
- A Kinase practice test the student builds by choosing the exam, subjects, topics and number of questions, with an option for previous-year questions only. Useful for targeted work on weak areas.
- Daily Practice (DPP)
- Daily Practice Problems — a set of MCQs Kinase provides each day so students keep a consistent routine and study streak.
- Fix My Weakness
- A Kinase feature that identifies a student's weakest subjects and topics from their performance history and serves a practice set targeting only those areas.
- Grand Test
- A full-length Kinase mock test — 200 questions in 5 timed sections over 3 hours 30 minutes — that rehearses section locking and exam-day pacing, followed by a performance analysis.
- Image Bank
- A dedicated Kinase module of 2,000+ image-based questions — ECGs, X-rays, CT and MRI scans, fundoscopy, histopathology and dermatology images — for practising visual diagnosis.
- Mini Test
- A short Kinase practice test covering a focused topic or subject, designed for daily revision and quick reinforcement between full-length Grand Tests.
- QBank
- Kinase's subject-wise question bank of 17,000+ verified previous-year questions across all 19 MBBS subjects. Each question includes an explanation covering the concept and why the other options are wrong.
- Question of the Day (QOTD)
- A single high-yield MCQ Kinase publishes every day, free for all users including non-subscribers.
- Sticky Notes
- A Kinase feature for attaching personal notes to any question. Notes are saved to the student's account and reappear when the question comes up again.
Subjects & Topics
- Drug of Choice (DOC)
- The first-line medication for a given condition — a common Pharmacology question type in NEET-PG and INICET. Examples: metronidazole for amoebiasis, magnesium sulfate for eclampsia, vancomycin for serious MRSA infection.
- High-Yield Topic
- A topic that appears repeatedly in NEET-PG and INICET previous-year questions — for example ECG interpretation, drug-of-choice lists, the immunisation schedule and national health programmes. Prioritising these gives the most marks per hour of revision.
- Medicine
- The largest clinical subject in NEET-PG and INICET. High-yield areas include cardiology (ECG interpretation, acute coronary syndromes), endocrinology (diabetes, thyroid) and infectious diseases (TB, malaria, HIV).
- NTEP
- National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (formerly RNTCP) — India's national TB programme and a frequent PSM topic. The standard regimen for drug-sensitive TB is 2 months of HRZE followed by 4 months of HRE, given daily.
- OBG
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology — a heavily protocol-based clinical subject in NEET-PG and INICET. High-yield areas include magnesium sulfate in eclampsia, partograph interpretation, antepartum and postpartum haemorrhage, and the PALM-COEIN classification of abnormal uterine bleeding.
- Pediatrics
- A clinical subject in NEET-PG and INICET with a large recall component — immunisation schedule, developmental milestones and vaccine contraindications — which makes it fast to revise and reliable to score.
- PSM
- Preventive and Social Medicine, also called Community Medicine — a para-clinical subject in NEET-PG and INICET focused on epidemiology, biostatistics and Indian national health programmes such as NTEP, NHM, UIP and ICDS.
- Surgery
- A major clinical subject in NEET-PG and INICET that focuses on diagnosis and first-line management rather than operative technique. High-yield areas include trauma, the acute abdomen, and breast and thyroid disease.
- UIP
- Universal Immunisation Programme — India's national vaccination schedule for children and pregnant women, and a recurring topic in NEET-PG and INICET Pediatrics and PSM questions.
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