NEET & JEE New Date Announced by H.R.D. Minister

Keeping in view of students' safety, JEE & NEET exams postponed to September

        

   👉JEE-Main will be now be held from Sept 1-6

   👉JEE Advanced will be held on Sept 27

   👉 NEETwill be held on Sept 13

The JEE & NEET, examinations for admission to undergraduate engineering & medical courses respectively, have been postponed to September due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The exams had been scheduled for the second half of July.

👉Keeping in mind the safety of student's and to ensure quality education we have decided to postpone JEE & NEET examinations, said by HRD Minister Ramesh Nishank Pokhriyal in a tweet on Friday evening.

👉The Joint Entrance Examination-Main (JEE-Main) will be now be held from September 01-06, 2020.

👉JEE-Advanced will be held on September 27, 2020.

👉National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) will be held on September 13, 2020.

HRD Minister Ramesh Nishank Pokhriyal said, noting that 'students’ health is the first priority'.

Earlier in the evening, as HRD Minister Ramesh Nishank Pokhriyal participated in a webinar on fitness, over three thousand people bombarded the comments of the live session with demands to postpone NEET & JEE exam, forcing the webinar host to raise the question with the Minister as well.

Can physical fitness be possible with depression & mental stress?, asked by Swati from Assam, as students trended the hashtags:

#HealthOverExams 

#PostponeNEETandJEE

👉Change in exam centre: The postponement in the entrance examinations will lead to further delay in the beginning of the academic year for new students, potentially wiping out almost an entire semester. Usually, students start classes in August and the 1st semester runs till December.

👉According to NTA notice, students can request for a change in their examination centre until July 15, given that travel is still disrupted in many areas. Admit cards will be available for download 15 days before the examination date.

👉JEE-Main was originally scheduled to be held between April 07 to 11, 2020 while NEET was scheduled for May 03, 2020 after school board examinations were completed. However, due to spread of COVID-19, board examinations were interrupted as all schools were closed in mid of March, followed by a countrywide lockdown from March 24.

👉JEE-Main & NEET were then rescheduled to July 18-23 and July 26 respectively. For IIT aspirants, JEE-Main is only the first stage, followed by the JEE-Advanced examination which had been rescheduled for August 23.

👉However, the lockdown has been lifted, the rising number of cases of COVID-19 led to further concern of infection. Now, it remains to be seen that if the spread of the virus slows down sufficiently over the next two months to safely hold the examination in September.