Delhi: Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will conduct National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for admission into medical courses on May 7.
CBSE conducts the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) exam and on the basis of it the students are chosen for admission to various colleges.
Earlier, it had been decided that candidates could appear in the NEET thrice till they are 25 years old.
The decision was taken during a University Grants Commission (UGC) meeting in Delhi some time back.
The minimum age to appear for NEET is 17 years, however, the maximum age is 30 years for the reserved category students.
NEET will be held in eight languages - Hindi, English, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu - for the academic year 2017-18.
Also, the candidate qualifying NEET will be eligible for all India quota and other quotas under the state governments and institutes irrespective of the medium taken by candidates, subject to other eligibility criteria, the Union Health Ministry had said in a statement in December last year.
Joint Secretary, Medical Education, AK Singhal had said then, "The collaborative efforts of Central Health Ministry with the state health ministries have lead to this decision so as to bring parity for the students who have taken the state board exams."
NEET has replaced AIPMT and has been made mandatory for admissions in all-India medical/dental colleges which means no other state can conduct its separate medical entrance.
(With PTI inputs)
