Detailed Analysis of NEET

1. What is NEET
   • NEET stands for National Eligibility - Cum Entrance Test
   • NEET has been introduced by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) Govt, of India and Medical Council of India (MCI)
   • NEET has been intorduced for:
     • Undergraduate (NEET-UG) Medical Course like MBBS, BDS etc.
     • Post Graduate (NEET-PG) Medical Courses like M.S, M.D etc.
   • NEET-UG will be the common entrance test for MBBS course across the country for 355 government and private medical Colleges / Universities with 43,740 seats & 300 Dental Colleges with 24,840 seats



2. NEET Pattern (Proposed)
   • NEET is proposed to be conducted on 5^th May 2013
   • The application forms shall be available in 2^nd week of November 2012.
   • A student will be able to apply offline or online, based on his/her convenience
   • Exam Pattern Physics: 45Qs.; Chemistry: 45Qs; Botany: 45Qs.; Zoology: 45Qs.; Total Time: 3 hours (180 minute).
   • Exam Language / Medium: English and Hindi



3. NEET Merit List & Rankings (Proposed)
   • National as well as State level ranking or merit list will be prepared for all the appearing candidates
   • Rank Usage for NEET qualified students:
   • National Rank: A student can use National Rank to take admission in any of the NEET affiliated MBBS colleges in India
   • State Rank: A student can use State Rank to take admission in any of the affiliated colleges in the state from here he / she has done class XI & XII or holds a domicile



4. Eligibility criteria for NEET (Proposed)
   • XII Academic Eligibility  (Minimum percentage):
     • 50% for General category students & 40% for SC / ST / OBC category students in Physics, Chemistry and Biology taken together (i.e. aggregate).
     • Student must pass Physics, Chemistry, Biology and English subject in individually
   • Entrance Qualifying Criteria: Qualifying criterion has been changed from 50% of absolute marks in NEET to 50 percentile in NEET to ensure that no seat remains unfilled
   • Age Eligibility (Minimum percentage):
     • Minimum 17 years at the time of admission
     • Upper age limit relaxed by 5 years for SC / ST / OBC
   • Number of Attempts: A maximum of three attempts



5. NEET participating MBBS Colleges
   • A total of 355 MBBS & 300 Dental colleges have been listed by MCI, which will fall under the aegis of NEET 2013
   • These colleges shall offer a total of 43,740 MBBS seats & 24,840 Dental seats across India



6. NEET Controllers & Syllabus
   • The NEET has been recommended by HRD
   • Medical Council of India (MCI) has accepted the recommendation and notified final syllabus for the upcoming NEET on its website
   • The notified syllabus for NEET-UG has been achieved after reviews of various State syllabus as well as those prepared by CBSE, NCERT, and COBSE
   • The new syllabus will establish uniformity across the country keeping in view the relevance of different areas in medical education.
   • NEET will be conducted by CBSE
   • For detailed syllabus of NEET, kindly visit: http://www.mciindia.org/tools/announcement/2011_FinalCoreSyllabus_NEET-UG/FinalCoreSyllabus_NEET-UG.pdf



7. Impact of NEET: NEET shall replace-
   • All India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT - the national level medical entrance test for MBBS courses), which till 2012 was being used for admissions for 15% seats of all government medical colleges except that of in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir
   • All individual MBBS entrance exams, which are being organized individually by state or colleges themselves (e.g. MHT-CET, AFMC, OJEE, EAMCET, Delhi-PMT, UP-CPMT, UT-PMT, R-PMT, HR-PMT, WB-JEE, JK-CET etc.)



8. Benefit of NEET
   • One common examination for admission into almost all of the MBBS colleges in India
   • No need to apply for several entrance examinations
   • The students will be free and relaxed after appearing in only one exam
   • Stress-level will be considerably reduced which otherwise used to be there due to various entrance examinations spread over a period of three months (April-May-June)
   • Substantial financial savings for parents



9. NEET-Reservation Policy
   • The Union health ministry has confirmed the state government that:
   • Their existing reservation policies would not be disturbed under the proposed scheme
   • State wise eligibility merit lists will be prepared for the respective state authorities to admit students for admission in accordance with theiry admission criteria in the institutions located in the respective states



10. Why NEET?
    • To create an umbrella or single entrance exam for all medical aspirants in India
    • Till now admission to the se seats was done through national state level entrance exams. There were over 25 such different Medical Entrance Examinations in India for admission into various Govt. & Pvt. Medical Colleges
    • On an average a student appeared in 7-9 entrance exams, thereby causing unnecessary stress on them as well as on parents
    • Moreover, giving so many exams creates lot of financial burden for the parents since each examinations involves expenses like Application Fee & commuting to appear for the entrance test in various cities / at various test centres. So NEET will avoid unnecessary wastage of time, effort & money
    • Moreover, multiple exams also pose the challenge of preparing for different syllabi and patterns for students. This further increases the stress among students