NEET 2021 exam date to be announced this week: Report

NEW DELHI: The National Testing Agency (NTA) will soon announce the schedule for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET). In a major relief for NEET aspirants, Vineet Joshi, Director General, NTA in an interview with NDTV and India TV, said that the NEET 2021 exam date will be announced by this week. Aspirants have been requesting Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ to release the NEET exam date 2021 for over a month now.
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The delay in the announcement of the exam date of NEET 2021 has created a lot of confusion among students. Students preparing for NEET 2021 also requested the NTA and education minister for conducting the exam twice a year. However, Joshi also confirmed that NEET 2021 will be conducted only once, according to the NDTV report.

NEET 2021 exam date to be announced this week

After much delay, there is an update on the NEET schedule. As per the report, Joshi said that the NEET 2021 exam date will be announced by the authorities this week. It is expected that the release of the NEET application form will be announced along with the notification at ntaneet.nic.in.

NEET 2021 schedule was expected to be released by the end of February 2021. Usually, the NEET schedule is released in the month of November - December and the exam is conducted on the first Sunday of May. For this academic session, no official announcement on NEET 2021 has been made yet. However, NEET-UG 2021 is likely to be conducted in June/ July after the conclusion of Class 12 board exams.

NEET 2021 will be conducted only once

As per the reports, the ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) had given a nod to conduct NEET 2021 exam two times a year, after a meeting was reportedly held by education and health ministries on January 25, 2021. However, the NTA director-general has clarified that the exam will be held only once, as per the NDTV report.

Latest updates on NEET 2021

In addition to the release date of the NEET 2021 schedule, there have been updates on the exam pattern and syllabus of the NEET exam.

• NEET exam pattern 2021: As per a report, the exam pattern of NEET 2021 will not be changed. Amit Khare, Secretary, Higher Education, said that like the previous year, NEET 2021 will be conducted in a pen-paper mode.

• NEET syllabus 2021: Ministry of Education released a notification stating that the NEET 2021 syllabus will remain the same as the previous year.

• NEET question paper: In January, the ministry of education said that the NEET (UG) 2021 question paper will have options on the lines of JEE, where students had to answer 75 questions out of 90. The medical exam contains 180 questions from physics, chemistry and biology, which may increase this year and aspirants can answer only 180 questions.
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