MBSS aspirant? ALERT! Here is important National Entrance Test (NEET) update

NEET for MBBS Admission: From the academic year 2020, admissions to MBBS courses in medical colleges across the country, including JIPMER and at all AIIMS, will be conducted through a common national entrance test National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), which replaced the All India Pre Medical Test (AIPMT) in the year 2013.

Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan has announced that the NEET will come to force from the academic year 2020, as the only entrance test for medical admission. Till the academic year 2019-20, other two entrance examinations have taken place nationally-- AIIMS MBBS entrance test and JIPMER MBBS entrance test. The announcement to this effect has been made following the enactment of National Medical Commission Act.

Dr. Vardhan said, "The common national entrance test -- NEET -- applicable to institutes of national importance like AIIMS and JIPMER and common counselling for MBBS, as per the National Medical Commission Act, will come into force from the next academic year (2020)," adding "This will help set common standards in medical education sector in the country."

With the single entrance test for all the undergraduate MBBS admissions, medical aspirants will get the single counselling window facility for all the all India admission, which would come under the new National Medical Commission. The counselling for seats, under various states quota, will be managed by the state-level counselling committees.

Admissions to all medical colleges except All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) and JIPMER (Jawaharlal Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research) are done through the NEET.

The online application process for NEET will begin on December 2, 2019 and conclude on December 31, 2019. The National Testing Agency (NTA), which came into form in 2017, will conduct the NEET test.

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The students will be able to download their admit cards for NEET 2020 from March 27, 2020, as the NEET exam is scheduled on May 3, 2020. The result for NEET UG will be released on June 4 next year.