NEET
The number of test takers in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET-2019) for admission to courses like MBBS, BDS in medical colleges has increased by more than 2.5 lakhs this time.
About 15 lakhs 76 thousand students have registered this time, whereas NEET 2018 has 13 lakh candidates.
Dr SP Singh, Director of Neutral Expert and New Light Coaching, points out that competition has increased due to the increase in the number of examiners. According to Dr Singh, this time the Supreme Court has allowed more than 25 years old to sit in the examination. This is the reason that the tremendous increase in the number of examiners is being seen.
Another major reason is that many states have decided to enrol themselves as qualified candidates in AYUSH course only. In the previous year, there were separate entrance examinations for the AYUSH course in the states. Dr Singh added that due to errors in the registration and dummy candidates, there may be some reduction in the number of students.
Exam on May 5, error correction from January 14
According to Dr Singh, 2019 will be organized jointly by the National Testing Agency on May 5, across the country. The process for online application has been completed by December 6. Now, if any candidate has made an error in the application form, he will get an error correction from January 14 to January 31. After the examination, results will be issued on June 5. Students can obtain another exam related information at http://nta.ac.in.
This will be the question paper format
- A total of 180 questions will be asked in the question paper. The papers will be available in English, Hindi, Oriya, Tamil, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Assamese and Urdu also in Hindi.
- There will be three topics in the paper, Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Two subsections in biology will be Zoology and Botany.
- There will be 45-45 questions in the Physics and Chemistry section.
- The biology section will contain a total of 90 questions, which will be connected to 45 Botany and 45 Zoology.
- In both exams, four points of each question will be given, which will be the total number of 720.
- There is also provision for negative marking in the exam.
- On each wrong answer, a point will be deducted.
