SC stumps students with major last minute changes in medical entrance exam structure

It seems like a bad time for Medical aspirants prepared for the Common Entrance Test (CET) of their states. Supreme court on Thursday, approved the proposal to conduct only the NEET examination for entrance into the government medical colleges, effective from 2016, merely days before the CET exams were scheduled; throwing students everywhere into panic mode.

The central government has decided to conduct the AIPMT (All India Pre-medical Test) as the first phase of the NEET which will take place on 1^st May, 2016. For those students who had not applied for the AIPMT examination, they can give the examination on July 24^th, 2016, as the NEET phase-2. The results of these two examinations will be declared on August 17 2016, after which the admission process would complete by September.

The call has been received with widespread discomfort, as a large number of students had been aiming at only appearing for MH-CET and it is very difficult to prepare for such a complex exam in such a short notice. However, in good news Members of various parties in Lok Sabha on Friday opposed holding of the first phase of common entrance test for MBBS and BDS on May 1. The state of Andhra Pradesh also went ahead with their AMCET as per schedule, on 29^th April, and The Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER) announced on Thursday that the MH-CET examination would take place as per the schedule on 5^th May.

Dr. Pravin Shinde of DMER said, “There are over four lakh students who have registered for admission to medical and professional courses. Out of these 1.5 lakh students opt for medical and dental courses. Following the SC order, we will now file a review petition in the SC to allow admissions to medical courses via the MHT-CET”.

Assam government has also said that they would petition for a review of the SC decision while the Tamil Nadu government has strongly opposed this decision as there has been no practice of an entrance exam in the state since 2007.

– by Anushka Jain with inputs from various agencies.

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