Since the breakout of the final NEET 2019 schedule, it is now official that NEET 2019 will be conducted once a year and in pen and paper mode only. On August 23, 2018, the official website of National Testing Agency (NTA) hosted the press release of NTA held 5 exams – JEE Main 2019, NEET 2019, UGC NET 2019, CMAT and GPAT, which says that NEET will not be conducted twice a year and neither it will be conducted in the Computer-based mode.
This has thrown the NEET 2019 aspirants in quite a dissatisfied zone. They are are demanding reasons on why NEET like JEE Main 2019 is not being conducted twice a year.
Earlier, Ministry of Health has given reasons to MHRD and requested to rill back the decision of NEET 2019 in online mode and twice a year stating several valid reasons. The reasons being, first, if NEET 2019 is held in online mode than the rural candidates will be at a disadvantage. Second, they said twice a year schedule of the exam will add a lot of pressure on NEET 2019 aspirants. Many will appear for their class 12th boards and many will also opt for the JEE Main 2019 exam. This will mean a continuous 4 months of examinations.
However valid the above reasons are, candidates feel this is an unfair move, as this reasons hold true for the JEE main 2019 aspirants too, but JEE Main 2019 is being conducted twice a year. NEET 2019 aspirants feel this to be unfair stating that the situations and reasons stated for NEET 2019 not being held twice a year are valid for JEE Main 2019 aspirants too.
In our earlier reports, many aspirants have commented voicing their dissatisfaction on this move bt the NTA.
The above are few of the many comments that we have received. The decision of conducting NEET 2019 once a year and JEE Main 2019 twice a year is yet not clear. However, candidates are clearly not happy with this move of NTA.
The government surely have some reasons to differentiate NEET 2019 conduct from other 4 exams that NTA will be conducting from 2019 onwards. NEET being the only medical entrance exam has always been surrounded with controversies and has remained the center attraction. Thus, to conduct NEET 2019 with such big changes requires more thought. This might be one of the reasons to conduct NEET as it was being conducted with no changes.
NEET 2019 will now be conducted on May 05, 2019 and the registrations for the same will start from November 01, 2018. JEE Main 2019, on the other hand, will be conducted first on January 06-20, 2019 and then on April 06-20, 2019 in 8 sittings. The registrations of JEE Main 1 2019 exam will start from September 01, 2018 and the JEE Main 2 2019 registrations are scheduled on February 08, 2019.
Do let us know what are your opinions on NEET not being conducted twice a year like JEE Main in 2019. Comment below!
Rolling back the NEET decision is unfortunate and reflects the confused and muddled thinking of the HRD Ministry. There is absolutely no academic, logistic or infrastructural basis to discriminate between NEET and JEE MAINS aspirants.
Very clearly, the only sensible explanation for this regressive roll back decision is Tamilnadu politics. The Union Govt senses an opportunity for BJP in TN due to the political vacuum there and NEET is a political issue there. Govt is apprehensive of changing the status quo as regards NEET for the fear of losing votes.
Unfortunately, politics trumps student’s interests yet again. Holding NEET twice would have reduced stress of students and rural kids have smartphones and are all over social media. They can jolly well give the Test online just like they would give JEE MAINS now.
Please conduct medical entrance exam in state wise as it was conducted in previous. PLEASE CONSIDER MY OPINION.
Neet should also be conducted twice a year as jee…..
Neet should be conducted twice too….not at all satisfied with NTA’s decision.
NTA should reconsider their decision and neet should be held in February as well..
Neet must be conducted twice in online mode. It help a lot of student who has appeared neet in previous years but was unsuccessful. Online mode is also very helpful as it saves time and have no chance of bubble error. If jee main can be conducted twice , thn why not neet ? HRD’s reason seems to be baseless. Running student, if the feel pressure, may opt the Neet of May , not of Feb.
NEET also should be held twice in a year.
I still can’t understand what’s the problem to conduct neet twice.. if being a student of 12th bipc I don’t have any problem, it’s not only me I think none of us is having a problem writing neet twice as well as 12th board… then why this health ministry having a problem to conduct it twice?
I am so so so happy with NTA’s decision
The decision of NTA of conducting NEET only ONCE a year and in a pen and paper mode is very unsatisfactory for all the NEET aspirants as they will get only one opportunity to show their abilities and the mode of conducting exam is not as good as CBT, as in CBT it saves the candidate’s time by not filling the bubbles as it is in pen & paper mode. The reasons for not conducting NEET twice a year given by NTA are not satisfactory(res.1 no facilities for rural people for giving the exam, res.2 it will increase pressure on the students. ) as their reasons should also be applicable to the JEE aspirants. We want a more satisfactory answer from NTA. It seems like that govt. only wants to develop the indian technology and it doesn’t want to supply medical facilities to the country.
I am not satisfied by the decision of nta. I support the online mode of neet 2019 and to be conducted twice. hope that nta reconsider its decision and look for it to change
I think that it is not good decision for future’s Doctors
Govt has failed in this matter….Very worst condition and you are telling that we have exams,,the jee mains are not giving exams or what…..There is need of doctor in country and Lol Engineers
Neet2019 should be held in both CBT as well as pen and paper
I am requesting. To NTA Take NEET for medical and jee for engineering twice in year .
Here no problem with rural areas students. And one more request to NATA exam should be in only English and not the other language s
Thanks
Indian government and their decisions.
If you’re conducting JEE main twice a year then why not NEET man.
Please reconsider your decision and make a revolutionary pattern which would hold for at least 5-6 years.
Pattern keeps changing every 1-2 years which means you can not make a clear decision for the future of us.