NEET UG 2025: Will NTA remove optional questions in NEET too? Expert panel to suggest reforms soon
Anu Parthiban | October 29, 2024 | 01:34 PM IST | 2 mins read
NEET UG exam date 2025 is expected to be announced soon by the NTA. The NTA recently removed the optional questions from JEE which was introduced during COVID as a one-time measure.
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Download EBookNEW DELHI: After the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced the JEE Main 2025 exam dates for engineering entrance exam, medical aspirants are eagerly awaiting the NEET UG exam date 2025 and paper pattern for the upcoming academic year. The NEET UG exam 2025 details are expected to be announced along with the NTA exam calendar.
Meanwhile, speculations about possible changes in the exam pattern continues as the Supreme Court has given an additional two weeks time period to the seven-member expert committee to file its report on exam reforms after reviewing the NTA's functioning in conducting NEET 2025. The decision was announced by the apex court on October 21 and the expert panel is expected to submit the report by November first week.
The NTA was in a spotlight this year after several allegations of paper leak, irregularities, and other malpractices affected lakhs of students who appeared in competitive exams such as NEET UG, UGC NET.
Despite the allegations of NEET UG paper leak and malpractices, the Supreme Court on August 2 dismissed the plea to cancel the exam stating that the there was no sufficient material on record to indicate a systemic leak or malpractice compromising the integrity of the exam beyond the areas of Hazaribagh and Patna.
Following this, a seven-member expert committee headed by former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief K Radhakrishnan was constituted to review the functioning of the NTA and suggest reforms in NEET UG to curb paper leak and malpractices. Other members of the panel include Randeep Guleria, B J Rao, Ramamurthy K, Pankaj Bansal, Aditya Mittal and Govind Jaiswal.
NEET UG exam pattern 2025
NEET UG question paper will have four subjects and each subject will consist of two sections - Section A will have 35 questions and section B will have 15 questions. Out of the 15 questions in section B, candidates will be given an option to attempt any 10 questions.
However, after the NTA removed the optional questions for JEE Main 2025 , aspirants are expecting that it will drop the section B options and reduce the number of questions in NEET UG exam as well.
|
Subjects |
Section |
Number of questions |
Marks |
|
Physics |
Section A |
35 |
140 |
|
|
Section B |
15 |
40 |
|
Chemistry |
Section A |
35 |
140 |
|
|
Section B |
15 |
40 |
|
Botany |
Section A |
35 |
140 |
|
|
Section B |
15 |
40 |
|
Zoology |
Section A |
35 |
140 |
|
|
Section B |
15 |
40 |
|
Total |
|
|
720 |
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