National Eligibility-Cum-Entrance Test (NEET)
1. NEET stands for National Eligibility-Cum-Entrance Test which
has been proposed by Ministry of Human Resource Development(MHRD), Govt. of
India and Medical Council of India (MCI) for Undergraduate (NEET-UG)(MBBS/BDS ) and
Post Graduate(NEET-PG) (MD,MS) Medical Courses and will be a common entrance
test for Health Science courses across
the country for almost all Government and private medical Colleges/Universities
and is going to conducted for the first
time in the year 2013 for academic session 2013-14.
2. NEET is being replaced by All India Pre-Medical Test ( AIPMT
) which till 2012 was used for admissions into 15% seats of all government
medical colleges except that of Andhra Pradesh and Jammu&Kashmir and all
individual entrance exams organized by individual state or colleges/Universities
like AFMC,OJEE,EAMCET,Delhi-PMT,GUJCET,MHTCET,UP-PMT,UT-PMT,R-PMT,HR-PMT,WE-JEE,JK-CET
etc.
3. NEET will be used to get admissions into some 161 Government
Medical colleges for 19,985 seats and some
194 Private Colleges for 23,755 MBBS seats.
The number of seats and colleges may
vary depending upon their participation in NEET for the academic year 2013-14.
4. Date of examination : 05-05-2012. (Sunday 9.00AM)
5. NEET Exam Patterm:
The exam is objective type (MCQs).
Total number
Questions – 180MCQs x4 Marks = 720 Marks
1. Physics - 45 MCQs
2. Chemistry - 45 MCQs
3. Botany - 45 MCQs
4. Zooloy -45 MCQs
Each correct answer will carry 4 marks and for a wrong answer 5 marks will be deducted.
Total Exam Time 3 hours (180
Minutes)
Exam Language/Medium : English,Hindi and Regional languages.
6. National as well as State Level Merit list will be prepared for all the
candidates taking NEET.
a)A student can use National Rank to take admission in
any NEET affiliated Medical colleges
in India
b)A student can use State Rank to take admissions
in any of the affiliated colleges in the state from
where one has completed X and XII std or holds a domicile.
