Over 13L students to compete for NEET
MUMBAI: Competition for seats in undergraduate medical and dental
courses across India is set to get tougher with the total registrations
for the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) increasing by
almost two lakh.
According to figures revealed by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE),
over 13.36 lakh hopefuls have registered for NEET 2018, up from 11.5
lakh who had registered in 2017. Total number of seats in MBBS and BDS
institutes across the country stands at 60,000. Experts have attributed
this increase in registrations to a number of reasons, including more
states opting for NEET scores instead of their Common Entrance Tests
(CETs) to fill seats for all health science courses.
They also attribute
the rise to an overall increase in number of students clearing Class 12
exams every year.
“Various policies and scholarships made available by the Central
government as well as state governments have encouraged higher number of
students clearing secondary and higher secondary education across the
country. We anticipate an increase on the basis of this reason every
year,” said Dr Pravin Shingare, director, Directorate of Medical
Education and Research (DMER). Registrations stood at 7.5 lakh in 2016
when NEET was held in two phases.-
LANGUAGE MATTERS
National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) (UG) 2018 will be
conducted in 11 languages across the country While originally the
Central Board of Secondary Examinations (CBSE)
made it clear that NEET 2017 will be held in eight languages including
English, in the last week of January 2017, they added two more languages
to this list NEET 2017 was held in English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati,
Tamil, Telugu, Assamese, Bengali, Kannada and Oriya but despite repeated
requests by Student Islamic Organisation (SIO) as well as several other
state government officials, Urdu was not included in this list The
matter was dragged to court and the Supreme Court finally ordered CBSE to conduct NEET 2018 in eleven languages, including Urdu.
Source: Source : http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
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