It’s official. There will be no Eamcet medical entrance test for admission to MBBS and BDS courses from next year.
Andhra Pradesh students have to appear for the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (Neet) to be conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education for the first time on May 12, 2013, for admission to MBBS and BDS courses.
This follows the state government agreeing to adopt Neet, a “one nation-one test” proposal mooted by Union HRD ministry for admission to UG medical courses.
However, the test will be held only in Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Vizag and Tirupati. The CBSE will provide questions in Telugu for the convenience of Telugu medium students, besides English and Hindi.
There will be no change in the method of admissions and all the seats available in medical and dental colleges in the state will be allotted only to AP students based on merit secured in Neet.
The CBSE has agreed to release a state-wise merit list for the purpose and the NTR University of Health Sciences will conduct counselling for admissions as usual by implementing reservations for students belonging to BC, SC, ST, minority, PHC and special category students.
Notification for Neet to be issued in Dec.
Speaking on the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test to be held from 2013, T. Venugopala Rao, registrar of NTR University of Health Sciences said, “The first Neet notification will be issued in December. Applications will be available online. The syllabus too will be posted online.”
Dr Rao, who took part in the meeting conducted by the CBSE in Delhi, said the state will appoint a nodal officer to coordinate with CBSE for conducting Neet.
The state had earlier requested the Centre to implement Neet from 2014 to enable a new batch of students to prepare for it. However, the Centre did not oblige, citing SC order.