Medical and Engineering aspirants preparing for NEET and JEE Mains examination will now be able to appear twice from 2019. Only the best score out of the two examinations will be taken into consideration.
Bringing in major reforms in the education sector, the announcements were made in Delhi by Union Human and Resource Minister, Prakash Javadekar. The new changes are described as more ‘student-friendly’ as it now gives options to the aspirants on how they want to appear for these examinations.
Key announcements:
- National Test Agency (NTA) will be conducting JEE Main and NEET examinations in the country from 2019.
- Earlier, the Central Board of Second Education (CBSE) conducted these examinations.
- NTA will also be conducting CMAT and UGC-NET examinations across the country. Tests will be conducted for 4 to 5 days, twice a year. The new system will allow aspirants to choose the date of examinations.
- JEE Advance will be still conducted by the IIT.
- There are no changes in the syllabus. The difficulty of the paper will remain the same.
- All examinations under NTA will be computer-based.
JEE Mains will be conducted from January and April, while NEET will be organised in the months of February and May. A full timetable will be updated on the NTA website by the end of this month.Prakash Javadekar, HRD Minister
In December 2018, the Union Cabinet approved the formation of National Test Agency, an autonomous testing organisation formed to conduct higher education examinations in the country. NTA will be chaired by former CBSE chairman, Vineet Joshi.
Under the new system, examination will be more transparent. Due to the computer based examination, the entrance tests will be leak proof.Prakash Javadekar, HRD Minister
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