INI-CET Cutoff — Qualifying Percentile and Last Allotted Ranks

Last verified: 30 September 2026 against the AIIMS INI-CET Prospectus Part A (January 2027 session) and AIIMS Result Notification No. 205/2026 and Result Notification No. 216/2026.

What is the INI-CET qualifying percentile?

Source: AIIMS New Delhi, Prospectus Part A, January 2027 session, Section X B — aiimsexams.ac.in. AIIMS can revise any of this by notice, so check the site before you act on it.

The rule is the same every session; only the marks behind it change. Because the qualifying line is a percentile of the candidates who sat that paper, there is no fixed pass mark to aim for, and a "cutoff in marks" quoted for one session does not carry over to the next.

At what rank did seats run out last session?

AIIMS ends its Round 1 and Round 2 seat-allocation results with a "Last Allocated Candidate Rank" table. It gives, for each category, the overall INI-CET rank of the last candidate of that category who was allotted a seat in that round — at any institute, in any subject. These are the July 2026 session (INICET May 2026) figures:

Source: AIIMS New Delhi, July 2026 session seat allocation results — Result Notification No. 205/2026 and Result Notification No. 216/2026, section 1.5 — aiimsexams.ac.in. AIIMS can revise any of this by notice, so check the site before you act on it.

How should you read these ranks?

• They are the outer edge, not your target. The number is the last allotment anywhere. A seat at AIIMS New Delhi, PGIMER or JIPMER in a sought-after clinical subject closes at a much better rank; the full round result lists every allotment by rank, institute and subject if you want a specific one.
• Reserved-category candidates also win UR seats. Seats go in merit order, and a reserved-category candidate with a high rank can take an unreserved seat, so category columns are not independent queues.
• Ranks usually move outward in later rounds. Seats vacated by upgrades in Round 2 go further down the list, which is why the main MD/MS category figures are higher in Round 2 — but not every figure moves that way (the PwBD and several MDS figures did not). The open round has its own vacancies and no summary table.
• Every session is different. Seat numbers change each session and so does the number of candidates, so treat these as a benchmark from one session. The January 2027 session seat list is on the counselling page.

How do you find the closing rank for one institute or subject?

Each round's result notification is a rank-wise list of every allotment. A row shows the roll number, overall rank, category, PwBD status, the allotted subject, the allotted institute and the seat category it was filled under — for example UR-2 or OBC-3 (a roster point), IP (AIIMS institutional preference) or INST (JIPMER institutional seat). Two abbreviations matter: FCNA/NSA means none of the candidate's filled choices was available at that rank, and NR/NP means the candidate did not register or fill choices.

To find how far a particular seat went, search the PDF for the institute and subject together and look at the highest rank allotted under the seat category you would compete for. Do this for Round 2 and the open round too, because upgrades free seats that go to lower ranks.

How do you move your rank?

With +1 / −1/3 marking and ties broken first by fewer negative marks, INI-CET rewards accuracy as much as coverage. Candidates near a closing rank are usually separated by a handful of questions, most of them clinical vignettes and image-based items. Practise INI-CET previous-year questions by subject on Kinase, track the questions you got wrong while feeling sure, and fix those first.