NEET, JEE to be held twice a year from 2019

The Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Prakash Javadekar has announced that the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test and Joint Entrance Exam will be conducted twice in a year from 2019.

Both these exams will be held in Online mode and will be conducted by National Testing Agency.

Besides these two exam NTA will also conduct UGC NET and CMAT exams from now on.

JEE 2019 will be conducted in Jan & Apr & NEET will be conducted in Feb and May on multiple dates. Meanwhile, JEE Advanced would continue to be conducted by IITs themselves

However the syllabus and other formalities of the examinations will remain same.

More about NTA

It is said that the establishment of NTA will benefit about four million students appearing in various entrance examinations. It will, over time, relieve the CBSE, AICTE, IITs, IIMs and other agencies from the responsibility of conducting these entrance tests, thus enabling them to focus more on their core mandate

Also, NTA will also bring in high reliability, standardised difficulty level to assess the aptitude, intelligence and problem-solving abilities of the students

The NTA will comprise a chairman (an eminent educationist appointed by the ministry of human resource development); a CEO who will be the director general and appointed by the Centre; and a board of governors comprising members from user institutions. The director general will be assisted by nine verticals headed by academicians and experts.

The NTA will receive a one-time grant of Rs 25 crore from the Centre to start its operation. Thereafter, it will function on a self-sustaining model.