National Eligibility cum Entrance Test – Post Graduate
The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test – Post Graduate (NEET-PG) is the entrance exam for postgraduate medical and dental degrees and post-graduate diploma courses in India. The test was introduced in 2012 and a computer-based format is used.
History[edit]
The first NEET-PG was conducted by the National Board Of Examinations from 23 November – 6 December 2012, which was referred to as the testing window (with 24, 25, 28 November and 2 December as non-testing days). The test was a computer-based test unlike the traditional paper and pen based test AIIMS had been conducting over years for admission to 50% all India quota Post graduate courses in the country.
The new test pattern and schedule was conducted five weeks earlier than its predecessor the annual All India Post Graduate Entrance Examination, which is scheduled around January. The candidates complained about difficulty in the registration process for the test with long queues at banks where activation coupons were being sold. More than 38000 registrations were recorded on the neet pg servers within first few hours of launch. The organisers reported that the exam process ran smoothly.[1]
On 13 May 2013, the Supreme Court issued an interim order and allowed NEET to declare the results pending final verdict on the ongoing litigation. Accordingly the results were declared and nearly 49,000 out of 90,000 candidates were declared as qualified on the basis of ‘percentile’ (not percentage) as strictly prescribed by the NEET and approved by the government.Intriguingly, once the NEET PG results were declared following the Supreme Court interim order, the government in the first week of this month ordered an amendment. It issued orders, which in effect amounted to making a departure from ‘percentile system’ to ‘percentage system’. Consequently the number of qualified candidates suddenly swelled from approximately 49,000 to 70,000.[2] Result of NEETPG 2016-17 was declared on 13 January 2017 and counselling process is yet to start
See also[edit]
- Compulsory Rotatory Residential Internship
- Medical Council of India
- The National Council for Human Resource in Health in India
- Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates
- Medical Council of India Screening Test
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