The National Testing Agency announced on Friday that the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET-UG) for 2025 will be conducted on May 4.
Earlier, the NTA had confirmed that there would be no changes to the format of the NEET-UG 2025 exam. It was decided that the exam would continue to be held in the traditional pen-and-paper mode, in a single shift and on a single day, as per a decision made by the National Medical Commission (NMC).
This announcement followed extensive discussions between the education ministry, NTA, health ministry, and NMC over the past few months. These talks had explored the possibility of restructuring the exam and potentially transitioning to a computer-based format.
The decision to retain the current format came nearly a year after the controversy surrounding alleged leaks during the NEET-UG 2024 exam. In response, a high-level committee under former ISRO chairman K. Radhakrishnan was set up to recommend reforms in the exam process.
The committee, which submitted its report in November, had suggested a multi-stage testing model for NEET-UG. It had been widely expected that this year’s exam would introduce reforms, including a switch to a hybrid or computer-based format, aimed at ensuring a 'zero-error' exam experience.
This move reflected the health ministry and NMC's longstanding resistance to changes in the NEET-UG format. In 2018, the education ministry and NTA had proposed a JEE-like, two-stage computer-based exam for NEET-UG, but concerns raised by the health ministry led to the scrapping of that idea.
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This announcement followed extensive discussions between the education ministry, NTA, health ministry, and NMC over the past few months. These talks had explored the possibility of restructuring the exam and potentially transitioning to a computer-based format.
The decision to retain the current format came nearly a year after the controversy surrounding alleged leaks during the NEET-UG 2024 exam. In response, a high-level committee under former ISRO chairman K. Radhakrishnan was set up to recommend reforms in the exam process.
The committee, which submitted its report in November, had suggested a multi-stage testing model for NEET-UG. It had been widely expected that this year’s exam would introduce reforms, including a switch to a hybrid or computer-based format, aimed at ensuring a 'zero-error' exam experience.
This move reflected the health ministry and NMC's longstanding resistance to changes in the NEET-UG format. In 2018, the education ministry and NTA had proposed a JEE-like, two-stage computer-based exam for NEET-UG, but concerns raised by the health ministry led to the scrapping of that idea.
