Hyderabad, Aug. 7 -- Twenty candidates who scored between one and 99 marks out of 800 in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test for Postgraduate (NEET-PG) have been allotted postgraduate medical seats across Telangana, counselling data released by the Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS) shows, reviving concerns over the sharply lowered qualifying cut-offs this year.

The most striking case: a candidate with an All India Rank of 2,29,981, who scored just one mark, was allotted an MS Orthopaedics seat at Kamineni Academy of Medical Sciences in Hyderabad under the ST category. The seat came through the Competent Authority Quota mop-up round for the 2025-26 session, per KNRUHS documents dated February 9.

Of the 20 ...