Follow NEET UG 2025 exam timings to complete mandatory frisking; NTA rules, procedure

NEW DELHI: The National Testing Agency (NTA) will conduct the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET UG) 2025 in a single shift from 2 pm to 5 pm. Candidates are advised to reach the examination centre as mentioned in their NEET UG admit card 2025, according to the NEET UG exam timings 2025, and follow the exam-day instructions. NEET UG 2025 Live.

Examinees are required to reach the NEET UG exam centre 2025 at least one hour before the commencement of the medical entrance exam to complete the verification formalities. Every candidate will undergo mandatory frisking before entry to the exam hall through highly sensitive metal detectors.

In order to ensure smooth and transparent conduct of NEET 2025 following last year's fiasco over NEET paper leak resulting in Supreme Court's intervention and formation of high-level committee for reforms, the education ministry met district magistrates and police superintendents to enforce strict security measures including multi-layered security checks, frisking of candidates by local police and dedicated staff.

NTA will be making special arrangements for the frisking of NEET UG 2025 female candidates. This comes in the backdrop of a row over NEET aspirants in Kerala’s Kollam district being allegedly asked to remove undergarments to be allowed to take the exam in the past. A protest on the incident had NTA form a fact-finding committee to ascertain the facts, with orders from the Ministry of Education. Police had registered a case and five women were arrested.

NEET UG 2025 exam timings

Here's the timeline for conduct of NEET UG exam 2025:

NEET UG 2025 frisking rules

Here’s what MBBS aspirants can expect at the examination centre along with NEET UG 2025 frisking procedure:

• Candidates wearing articles or objects of faith (customary/cultural/ religious) should report at the examination centre at least two hours before the last reporting time so that there is sufficient time for proper frisking without any inconvenience to the candidate while maintaining the sanctity of the examination.
• If during screening, it is discovered that any candidate is actually carrying a suspected device within such an item of faith, he or she may be asked not to take it into the examination hall.
• In case, candidates arrive in cultural or customary dress at the exam centre, they should report at least an hour before the last reporting time, at 12.30 pm, to have enough time for undergoing proper frisking.
• The frisking of female candidates will be done inside a closed enclosure by female staff only. NTA will issue comprehensive instructions to the staff and other officials present at the exam centre.
• Candidates are requested to cooperate with the staff at the exam centre during frisking.