Information on NEET
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) has been put on its website.
( http://www.mciindia.org/tools/announcement/CoreSyllabus_NEET-UG.pdf )
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. 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 is given below:
http://www.mciindia.org/InformationDesk/MedicalCollege
Hospitals/ListofCollegesTeachingMBBS.aspx
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.
Pros and Cons of NEET
Pros:
- 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.
Cons:
- 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
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