Entrance Tests

NEET 2013 on 5th May for MBBS and BDS Admissions

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The National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET) 2013 for admission to MBBS and BDS Courses for the academic year 2013-14 will be held on 5th May 2013. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will conduct the examination across the country. This is first common entrance examination for admission to medical courses in all types of medical and dental colleges in India.

There have been long discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of the examination. Finally, Medical Council of India (MCI) has released the syllabus of NEET and invited the opinions and comments from students, educationists, parents etc.

It is estimated that about 10 lakhs candidates are likely to appear for NEET 2013 examination. MBBS and BDS seats in all Government, Aided and Private Unaided medical and dental colleges will be filled through this examination.

There are about 355 recognized medical colleges in the country. Reservations will be implemented in all the colleges as per the existing norms. MCI will not interfere with the process of reservations for various categories in MBBS and BDS admissions. More details of the examination and updates may be available on the CBSE website www.cbse.nic.in.

IIT JEE Advanced 2013-14 Dates and Exam Structure

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Joint Admission Board (JAB) of IIT Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) 2013 has announced the dates for JEE Advanced 2013. The JAB has met on August 27, 2012 at IIT Delhi to discuss the admission procedure for the coming academic year 2013-14. The admission to the undergraduate programmes (B.Tech / B.E) at the IITs and ISMU, Dhanbad for the year 2013-14 will be based on a new two-tier test. Following are details of dates and scheduled of JEE Main and JEE Advanced 2013-14:

1) The first test of the new pattern examination is called the JEE (Main). It will be held during the month of April, 2013 (both offline and online). This examination will be conducted by CBSE.

2) The second test, JEE (Advanced) will be held on June 2, 2013. This will be in offline mode. only. Only 1,50,000 of the top rankers in JEE (Main) will be eligible to appear for JEE Advanced. The top rankers include students from all categories such as General, OBC(NCL), SC and ST.

Here is the question paper pattern of the JEE (Advanced) – 2013. This will have two objective type papers. Each question paper will consist of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. Duration of each question paper will be 3 hours. Question papers will be given in both English and Hindi.

Admissions to all IITs (Bombay, Bhubaneswar, Delhi, Guwahati, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Kanpur, Indore, Kharagpur, Madras, Patna, Roorkee, Mandi, Rajasthan, Ropar, IT – BHU Varanasi and ISM Dhanbad) will be based only on category wise All India Rank (AIR) in JEE (Advanced). These candidates should have also secured marks of top 20 percentile in their Boards in concerned categories. For more details, see http://jee.iitd.ac.in .