LATEST NEWS
Common MBBS entrance test on May 13: MCI
The Medical Council of India (MCI) today said it would conduct the common medical MBBS entrance test on May 13 next year. The core syllabus has been finalised. The MCI announced date for the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET-UG) even though the Ministry of Health is yet to issue a notification.
The notification has been pending in the ministry for long, with some states like West Bengal, Gujarat, Goa and Andhra Pradesh seeking that the test be held in the local vernacular languages as well. However, Medical Council of India sources said today that the CBSE had the wherewithal to conduct test in Hindi and English only. Efforts were being made to see if the request of the four states could be met.
Unless Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad signs the notification for NEET-UG, the future of the test would remain uncertain. Meanwhile, the Medical Council of India decided the date in pursuance of the commitment it made to hold the test, in an ongoing case in the Supreme Court.
Final syllabus can be viewed on the Medical Council of India website.
MCI announced the exam pattern of NEET, consisting of 180 multiple choice questions having the 4 sections biology, chemistry, zoology and physics, each section having 45 questions. No negative marks for wrong answers and final score will be calculated in percentile.
|
Attention Coaching Institutes
|
Contact us for
NEET Study Pacakage in Physics, Chemistry & Biology |
|
NEET Medical Entrance Exam
The Medical Council of India will hold a National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for MBBS admissions from 2012-13, and the core syllabus for NEET-UG (undergraduation) is out and can be downloaded from the following links :
1. Physics Syllabus for NEET
2. Chemistry Syllabus for NEET
3. Biology Syllabus for NEET
The syllabus may be modified by MCI based on feedback received from stakeholders.
- The NEET for undergraduate courses would be held on 12 May 2012, if everything goes fine. A single merit list will be created for close to 35,000 MBBS seats across the country, which will show state, minorities and SC/ST quotas.
- The entrance examination would cover all medical colleges except the Armed Forces Medical College, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi and the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh which will be outside the NEET’s purview as these institutes were set up by separate laws
The Common Entrance Exam will be held for MBBS courses offered by all 271 medical colleges — 138 run by governments and 133 under private management. List of MBBS colleges under the purview of NEET
NEET format and types of questions
As per information available, all the questions in the examination will be objective questions of the Multiple Choice type. It will consist of one question paper of 3 hours’ duration, comprising 75 questions of Physics, 75 of Chemistry and 100 of Biology.
The examination papers will be prepared by CBSE, who have been conducting the CBSE PM / PD examination since 1988.
Merits of the single NEET Medical Entrance Exam :
- This single system for medical entrance will solve the stress problem among students due to the complexities of numerous entrance tests.
- It will save time, energy and money of the students. The students were earlier spending a lot every time, while applying for the entrance exams to various colleges; such costs will be saved from now onwards.
- This system is certainly a positive growth towards improvement in the quality of medical education in India. In fact, the MCI has designed the system very strictly that all the admissions would be made merit based and it is even insisting the same standard be followed for management quota seats too.
Demerits of the single NEET Medical Entrance Exam :
- When the entrance exam is implemented nationwide, the State Board syllabus for classes XI & XII will not be taken care of. The states will need to change their syllabus to cover the NEET exam syllabus.
- The system does not include the management quota seats, which is a big hole in the system.
- Earlier, the students had many opportunities of writing the entrance tests; on an average, a student writes around 10 entrance tests to finally get admitted in his/her desired medical college. So, the chances of getting a seat were high. Here it is a single medical entrance exam system and so the chance is only one. Hence, if a student loses in this exam, he / she may end up losing one year.
- Since it is a single medical entrance system for around 35,000 medical seats, the consistent quality and implementation of an error-free system is still to be seen
|
|
|
|
