NORCET 11 Stage 2 Result: Choice Filling from 30 Oct

10,613 candidates clear Stage II — and the real contest starts on 30 October

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi has declared the Stage II (Mains) result of the Nursing Officer Recruitment Common Eligibility Test, NORCET-11, through Result Notification No. 287/2026 dated 9 October 2026, with the result published on the AIIMS examinations portal on 10 October 2026. The Stage II examination was held on 30 September 2026. 10,613 candidates have provisionally qualified.

Read that number with the right calibration. NORCET is a common eligibility test feeding Nursing Officer recruitment across AIIMS institutions and other participating institutes, and the number of posts on offer in this cycle — under Advertisement No. 103/2026 — is reported at roughly 2,216 to 2,218 posts. Reporting on the exact total varies by a post or two between sources, and this article will not pretend otherwise: the advertisement's institute-wise vacancy table is the document that counts, and you should work from it when the allocation round opens. What the arithmetic already tells you is the shape of the competition: roughly five qualified candidates for every post. The examination phase is over; from here, rank and choices decide outcomes.

What "provisionally qualified" means — and what it does not

NORCET results are declared in stages, and the language matters. Qualifying Stage II means your performance crossed the prescribed threshold and your roll number appears in the result PDF. It does not mean a seat, an institute, or an appointment. Allocation happens afterwards, through the choice-filling and seat-allocation procedure AIIMS is yet to publish in detail for this cycle, and final appointment remains subject to document verification and the eligibility conditions of the advertisement.

The qualifying thresholds applied at this stage are category-wise percentages of the Stage II score:

• UR / EWS: 50%
• OBC: 45%
• SC / ST: 40%

If your percentage sits at or above your category's line and your roll number is in the PDF, you are in the qualified pool of 10,613. Where exactly you stand inside that pool is a separate question, answered by your individual result.

How to check your result: the PDF and your MyPage

AIIMS publishes the Stage II result in two forms, and you need both:

1. The roll-number-wise result PDFon aiimsexams.ac.in. This is the public declaration — search it for your roll number to confirm you are on the qualified list. No login is needed for this step, and it is the fastest first check.
2. Your individual result on MyPage.Log in to your candidate account on the AIIMS portal to see your own rank and percentage. The PDF tells you that you qualified; only your MyPage login tells you your rank and your exact percentage — and rank is the number that will drive every decision you make in the choice-filling round.

Do both checks now, not on 30 October. If your roll number is missing from the PDF but you believe you crossed the threshold, or if your MyPage shows a discrepancy, the time to raise it with AIIMS is while the allocation procedure is still being prepared — not after choices lock.

The dates that now matter: 30 October to 6 November

AIIMS has set out the next phase clearly:

• 30 October 2026: AIIMS will publish the final seat position and the detailed allocation procedure for NORCET-11. This document — the actual institute-wise, category-wise seat matrix — replaces every estimated vacancy figure in circulation, including the range quoted above.
• 30 October to 6 November 2026 (till 5:00 PM): the online choice-filling window. Qualified candidates submit their preferences for institutes in this window.

Two features of that schedule deserve emphasis. First, choice filling opens the same day the seat position is published — there is no separate study period built in, so your preparation has to happen before 30 October, using the advertisement's vacancy structure as your draft map. Second, the window closes at 5:00 PM on 6 November, not at midnight. Treat 5 November as your working deadline and keep the final day for verification, not for first submission.

How to prepare your choice list before the seat matrix lands

Choice filling in a multi-institute allocation is where qualified candidates most often lose ground they earned in the examination hall. Work through this checklist in the days before 30 October:

• Know your rank band. Your MyPage rank, read against roughly 2,216–2,218 posts and 10,613 qualified candidates, tells you whether you are choosing from strength (top ranks), contesting the middle, or depending on vacancies reaching deep into the list. Each position calls for a different list strategy.
• Draft your institute order now. List the participating institutes in your genuine order of preference — location, institute, and your own circumstances — before the seat matrix appears. When it does appear, adjust the draft; do not start from a blank page under time pressure.
• Fill more choices than you think you need. In preference-based allocation, an unfilled choice can never be allotted to you. Candidates who list only a handful of "dream" institutes and stop are the ones left unallocated despite qualifying.
• Order honestly, not tactically. Allocation systems process your list from the top down against availability at your rank. Put the institute you most want first; guessing games with the order do not improve outcomes.
• Keep documents ready. Appointment after allocation runs through document verification against the eligibility conditions of Advt 103/2026 — educational qualifications, registration, category certificates where claimed. Assemble the set now so a document problem does not surface for the first time at verification.

Where this leaves the NORCET-11 cycle

With Stage II declared, NORCET-11 has moved from examination to allocation. The remaining official milestones are the seat position and allocation procedure on 30 October, choice filling from 30 October to 6 November (till 5:00 PM), and the allocation that follows. Everything else about this cycle — joining, verification, institute-level formalities — flows from what you submit in that window. Candidates who treat choice filling as an administrative afterthought routinely end up at institutes they never seriously considered; candidates who prepare it like a second examination paper protect the rank they earned.

One honest closing note on sourcing: the AIIMS portal is JavaScript-rendered, and the notice body could not be read directly in this check — the notification number, date and headline figures above are as recorded from the AIIMS result listing. Before you act on any date in this article, open the result notification and the 30 October allocation notice on aiimsexams.ac.in yourself and confirm them there. That thirty-second verification is part of the process, not a lack of trust in this page.

Official links

• AIIMS Examinations portal (NORCET-11 result, MyPage login, allocation notices): https://www.aiimsexams.ac.in/

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