Refuses to allow separate medical entrance exams
PTI
NEW DELHI
The apex court put to rest all confusion by refusing to modify its April 28 order by which it had allowed Centre and CBSE to conduct a single common entrance test for admission to MBBS and BDS courses through National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET).
The top court had approved the schedule put before it by the Centre, CBSE and Medical Medical Council of India (MCI) for treating All India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT) fixed for May 1 as NEET-1. Those who have not applied for AIPMT will be given opportunity to appear in NEET-II on July 24 and the combined result would be declared on August 17 so that the admission process can be completed by September 30.
Around 6.5 lakh students took up the NEET-I test held on May 1.
The apex court rejected the contentions of the state governments, private medical colleges and also the minority institutions like Christian Medical College Vellore and Ludhiana that they have the legislative competence to hold separate entrance tests.
“Prima facie, we do not find any infirmity in the NEET
GOA PLEA NOT TO SKIP GCET
PANAJI: The Supreme Court order which reiterated that only the results of the National Entrance cum Eligibility Test will be considered for admissions to medical colleges across the country will apply for Goa Medical College as well. The Goa Common Entrance Test, which is a common entrance test to all professional colleges in the state will go ahead as planned, but those only seeking to pursue a career in medicine or dentistry could skip the exam.
However, officials have warned against the risk of skipping the GCET on grounds that answering only NEET will not make one eligible for engineering or any other professional courses.
“Answering GCET helps expand your options, besides there is no harm in answering GCET. If you skip GCET there isn’t a second GCET and it carries a risk of not making it through NEET and having no options left,” an official of the Goa Directorate of Technical Education has said.
