February 7, 2017 by Prakash
Malankar
The National Eligibility cum
Entrance Test (NEET -UG) 2017 for admission to medical colleges across the
country will be considered as the first out of three available attempts for all
the candidates, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) clarified on
Friday.
“It has been clarified by Medical
Council of India that the attempts made by candidates for AIPMT/NEET prior to
2017 should not be counted and accordingly appearance in NEET-2017 will be
counted as the first attempt for all the candidates, irrespective of their
previous attempts in AIPMT/NEET,” CBSE stated in a statement.
The confusion mounted after CBSE
released NEET 2017 notification, on Tuesday, saying that aspirants who had
already given AIPMT and NEET 2016 over three times are ineligible to appear for
NEET.
“All candidates who could not fill
up the application form due to the condition of three attempts at AIPMT/NEET
will now be able to fill up their application form,” the CBSE said. This year
admission to MBBS/BDS course in medical/ dental colleges, which operate with
the approval of Medical Council of India/ Dental Council of India, will be made
through NEET.
The registration process began on
Tuesday, 30 January, and will go on until 1 March. The exam will be conducted
in 10 different languages on 7 May. In its notification released, on Tuesday,
the CBSE had put an upper age limit cap for the candidates to 25 years,
however, five-year relaxation has been given to the reserved category
candidates.
Ever since the notification
released, students across the countries are protesting demanding roll back of the
age-limit and three-attempts criteria. The board had also made Aadhaar Number
compulsory to fill up the online application of NEET 2017 for the candidates of
all states except Jammu and Kashmir, Assam and Meghalaya.
Source: PTI
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