The HRD Minister will talk about the exam dates for the national level competitive exams tests – JEE Main and NEET.
Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on Tuesday announced the dates for JEE Main and NEET exams. JEE Main will be held from July 18 to July 23 while medical entrance test will be conducted on July 26. JEE Advanced is expected to be held in August, dates of which are not decided yet.
The syllabus for JEE Main and NEET 2021 have been curtailed. Pokhriyal urged students to self-study and take the help of digital modes including SWAYAM, Diksha to prepare for entrance exams. With low-connectivity areas, the content will be telecast through SWAYAM Prabha TV, he informed.
Over 9 lakh students have registered to appear for JEE Main and over 15.93 lakh have applied for NEET 2020, as per the National Testing Agency (NTA) – the exam conducting body.
Pokhriyal also said that the dates for CBSE class 10 and 12 exams will be announced soon.
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The central government had announced in March that the JEE and NEET entrance exams would be postponed to the last week of May keeping in mind the nationwide lockdown.
The JEE (Main) this year will be from July 18-23 while NEET will be held on July 26, HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank announced on Tuesday, ending days of uncertainty for about 25 lakh candidates.
The National Testing Agency (NTA) had earlier deferred JEE Main 2020, which was to be conducted on April 5,7,8, and 11, to the last week of May.
A decision will soon be taken on the pending CBSE Class 10, 12 board exams, he added.
Universities and schools across the country have been closed since March 16 when the Union government announced a countrywide classroom shutdown as one of the measures to contain the outbreak. Later, a nationwide lockdown was announced on March 24. The NEET and JEE exams were also postponed as the lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic was extended.
“The plan is to conduct entrance examinations like NEET and JEE in June. But it is extremely important to keep reviewing the Covid-19 situation,” a UGC official told PTI on April 25.
The NTA had earlier extended the date for correction of application of both the examinations till May 3.
The central government had taken this key decision on March 27 and had said that the JEE and NEET entrance exams would be postponed to the last week of May keeping in mind the nationwide lockdown. “Since parents and students have to travel to different examination centres, to avoid any inconvenience to them, I have directed the National Testing Agency to postpone NEET (UG) 2020 and JEE (Main) till last week of May,” Pokhriyal had said in a tweet.
