"This notice is FAKE": the forged MCC notice cutting the NEET eligibility percentile that circulated on 13 October 2026, and why agents wanted candidates to believe it

In the last days of NEET UG 2026 counselling a document began circulating on social media that looked like an official notice from the Medical Counselling Committee. It said the eligibility percentile had been reduced. It had not.

On 13 October 2026 the MCC published a notice, reference U-11011/07/2026-MEC, on its own website stating in capital letters that the circulating notice was FAKE. The committee reminded candidates that it does not operate any website other than mcc.nic.in, and warned, as summarised by Physics Wallah and Bodmas Education, that unknown agents might use the forged notice to make false admission claims, and that candidates should not pay anyone promising an MBBS or BDS seat on the strength of it. The National Medical Commission has in earlier years filed an FIR over forged allotment letters circulating in its name, as Medical Dialogues reported.

A fake cut-off notice is not a fraud in itself; it earns nothing. Its purpose is to manufacture a pool of hopeful candidates just below the real cut-off, who can then be told by an agent that they have become eligible and that a seat can be arranged for a fee before the "new" rule is withdrawn. The forged notice is the bait, the stray-round deadline is the pressure, and the fee is the fraud. The MCC's warning named the mechanism exactly.

For candidates and parents, the check is as simple as the committee said: anything about NEET counselling that does not appear on mcc.nic.in, or your state authority's own site, does not exist. Screenshots forwarded on WhatsApp, PDFs with the right letterhead and documents shown to you on an agent's phone are not notices. The eligibility percentile is set by the NMC and published once, and seats in the stray round are allotted by rank through the portal; nobody can move a candidate above the line for money.