National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET)

There will be only one common entrance test each for over 30,000 MBBS seats in all government and medical colleges in India from 2012.

Medical Council of India Said that an entrance Test for Undergraduate courses by the name of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) ( a single entrance Exam for admission to MBBS Courses) is going to be held in 2012 instead of various approximately seventeen MBBS Entrance Exams in India


The confusion caused by multiple entrance tests and counselling saw hundreds of students rush to the Supreme Court every year complaining about the system where they were left high and dry even for making a single mistake in their choices.

Earlier, students wanting to take up courses in medicine had to worry about attendant problems like clash of exam dates as well as travel to distant places for counselling for allotment of seats.

But from 2012, there will be just one entrance test each for MBBS course offered by all 271 medical colleges, 138 government-run and 133 under private management. These colleges together offer over 31,000 seats for MBBS courses.

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