Rajasthan NEET UG 2026 Round 1: Choices Auto-Lock at 11:55 PM — Jaipur Dental College Given Zero BDS Seats

The Office of the Chairman, NEET UG Medical & Dental Admission/Counselling Board (based at SMS Medical College, Jaipur) has posted an urgent alert on the Rajasthan NEET UG counselling website: choices saved during Round 1 choice filling will be automatically locked at 11:55 PM, and no further changes will be possible after that. This is a reminder notice, not a new deadline announcement — it was posted late in the evening to push candidates to double-check and save their preference list before the system freezes it. Alongside this, the board has issued a separate high-priority alert saying the National Dental Commission (NDC) has reduced Jaipur Dental College's BDS seats to zero for 2026-27, and anyone who has picked this college in their choice list must remove or reorder it before the lock happens. Both notices are live on the counselling portal at the same time, so candidates logging in now need to act on both.

What "auto-lock at 11:55 PM" actually means

In Rajasthan's NEET UG counselling, choice filling is the step where you arrange, in order of preference, every MBBS or BDS college-course combination you are willing to accept. The system does not wait for you to click a final "lock" button — at the stated cut-off time, it automatically freezes whatever list is saved in your account at that moment.

This means an incomplete or wrongly ordered list gets locked exactly as it stands. There is no grace period mentioned in the notice, and no manual override once the lock happens. If you are mid-edit when the clock strikes 11:55 PM, your last saved version — not your unsaved edits — is what counts.

• Log in immediately and check your saved choice list.
• Make sure every choice you actually want is present, and in the correct order of preference.
• Do not wait until the last few minutes — the notice explicitly warns candidates to save choices carefully well before the deadline.

Urgent: Jaipur Dental College — BDS seats reduced to zero

A separate high-priority notice states that, as per an NDC (National Dental Commission) order dated 24 August 2026, no seats will be allotted at Jaipur Dental College this year. The board has explicitly advised candidates who had already selected Jaipur Dental College as one of their choices to amend their choice list before the auto-lock under the Revised Schedule for Round 1.

In practical terms: if Jaipur Dental College is anywhere in your saved list, it is now a dead choice. It cannot result in a seat allotment because the college has zero seats this admission year. Leaving it in your list wastes a slot in your preference order but does not cause rejection — however, removing it and re-arranging your remaining genuine choices gives you a cleaner, more useful list for the actual allotment run.

• Check your saved Round 1 choice list for "Jaipur Dental College" entries.
• If found, remove it (or move genuinely preferred colleges above/into that space) before the auto-lock.
• This applies to BDS aspirants only — MBBS choices are unaffected by this specific order.

Context: what has been happening in Round 1 so far

The counselling board's notice board shows a fast-moving Round 1 process over the past two weeks, with several schedule revisions, verification rounds and provisional merit lists. Candidates should be aware of this sequence so they understand where things stand right now.

Other recent notices candidates should know about

A few smaller notices on the same board are worth noting because they affect eligibility or documentation, even though they are not the main subject of this alert.

• Domicile certificate date relaxed: following grievances, the date of issue of the domicile certificate is no longer a mandatory field in the application.
• OBC-NCL certificate validity: an OBC-NCL (Other Backward Class — Non-Creamy Layer) certificate has been clarified as valid for claiming reservation benefit under the MBC-NCL (Most Backward Class — Non-Creamy Layer) category.
• Fee structures published: separate fee notices are out for MBBS at private medical colleges, ESIC Medical College, government/RUHS-CMS/RAJMES colleges, and BDS at private dental colleges and the government dental college (RUHS-CDS, Jodhpur).
• Seat matrix and college profiles: the Round 1 seat matrix and detailed MBBS/BDS college profile documents have been uploaded for candidates to reference while filling choices.
• Surety/service bond orders: candidates taking government, RUHS-CMS or RAJMES seats should check the surety bond and service bond order (Annexure-3 of the Information Bulletin) attached to the notices.

What to do right now, step by step

Given the auto-lock warning, treat this as time-sensitive. Follow these steps in order.

• 1. Log in to the Rajasthan NEET UG counselling portal using your registered credentials.
• 2. Open your Round 1 choice list and review it top to bottom.
• 3. Remove Jaipur Dental College from the list if it appears anywhere — it has zero BDS seats this year and cannot result in an allotment.
• 4. Re-check the order of your remaining choices — the sequence matters because allotment follows your preference order strictly against your merit rank.
• 5. Click Save after every change; do not assume the system auto-saves your edits.
• 6. Do this well before the stated lock time — do not wait for the last few minutes, since the notice itself warns of exactly this risk.

Frequently asked questions

Do not treat this as a routine reminder — log in now, remove Jaipur Dental College from your choice list if it's there, verify your full preference order, and save it well ahead of the 11:55 PM lock. Keep checking the official Rajasthan NEET UG counselling notice board for the exact revised Round 1 schedule and any further updates.