Most government MBBS seats (and some private ones) come with a bond: serve at a government facility for a fixed period after you graduate, or pay a penalty. It's a real financial commitment on top of the fee — plan for both.

MCC and your state each charge a separate security deposit. Round 1 exit is free everywhere. From Round 2, walking away forfeits the deposit — and a Stray-round no-show forfeits it and debars you from next year's NEET.

State deposits stack on top: Karnataka escalates ₹10,000 → ₹1,00,000 round to round; Rajasthan's NRI deposit runs to ₹5,00,000, the highest in the country. Checking "Apply for Deemed Universities" alone moves your MCC deposit from ₹10,000 to ₹2,00,000 — a ₹1,90,000 decision most tick without noticing.

Government fees look tiny on their own — Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi runs ₹2,400/yr; RG Kar, Kolkata ₹6,000/yr. A comparable private seat in Karnataka's state quota is ₹12,00,117/yr, and management quota there can reach ₹44,00,000/yr. The bond changes the calculation on the low-fee seat, and the fee changes it on the high-fee one — Formity shows both, for every option, before you decide.

Your data leaks — name, phone, rank, score — and someone calls with a "confirmed" government seat for a large sum, bypassing MCC. In one recent NEET-PG breach, a database of 200+ aspirants reportedly sold for as little as ₹3,599.

The tell: they contacted you. Real counselling is something you apply to — no one calls you with a deal.

A high-ranker's documents hold a seat through counselling; the seat is parked to mop-up, shown as an exit, then resold. Documented in Bihar (Madhubani, complaint to NMC/DME), Telangana (ED asset attachment), and Maharashtra — 152 aspirants flagged in Round 3 of NEET UG 2025 for inauthentic documents.

NRI seats are real and legal — but need a genuine first/second-degree relative, embassy verified. Anyone offering to "arrange" one is describing document fraud, not a service. ED raids have found large-scale NRI-quota seat-selling.

MCC has repeatedly warned about counterfeit allotment letters and fake websites mimicking the official portal. Anyone offering to "handle your registration" is asking for your MCC login.

NEET is mandatory for every MBBS seat in India, upheld by the Supreme Court. Management seats are real — but filled through counselling, on merit, at published fees. No middleman can offer around that.

In 2025–26, nine colleges were debarred from counselling and the seat matrix revised. Verify every college name on the National Medical Commission list before paying anything.

Every MD/MS group differs sharply in how many super-speciality seats actually exist downstream. Some branches are a real on-ramp to DM/MCh; others barely have one.

Orthopaedics: 17 seats total across just 2 specialities (Hand Surgery, Paediatric Ortho) — the branch this table shows needing super-speciality least; most MS Ortho grads never need one. Surgical (2,034 seats, 11 specialities — Urology, Neuro, GI, Plastic, Onco, CVTS…) and Medical (2,331 seats, 10 specialities — Cardiology, Gastro, Nephro, Neuro…) are the two real super-speciality pipelines.

Among Rank 1–100 from the Medicine group, Gastroenterology is the clear #1 choice (31%), not Cardiology (20%). The surprise: Rheumatology — a branch most students don't consider — is #2 (22%), and the most competitive by median rank (264) since only 86 seats exist nationally. Cardiology has the most seats (651) but ranks only #4 in competitiveness — toppers chase speciality value, not seat count.

DM (1,374 seats, govt medical colleges): 59% share, median rank 1,192. DrNB (957 seats, private hospitals + some govt): 41% share, median rank 2,131 — roughly half as competitive on average. Gastroenterology DM is 2.9x harder to get than DrNB Gastro; the gap narrows to 1.2x in Endocrinology. One exception: DrNB Haematology (median 1,801, centres like Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute) is actually harder than DM Clinical Haematology (median 2,598).