NEET 2019: Exam to be held on May 5 next year; Check registration, admit card release, result datesNEET 2019: Online exam to be held on May 5; Check registration, admit card release, result dates

NEET 2019: The decision came in the wake of the recommendations given by the Ministry of Health, which raised concerns about conducting the exam twice a year saying such an arrangement might put additional pressure on students.

The registration process for the NEET 2019 will begin on November 1 2018. (PTI)

NEET 2019: National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) will be conducted once a year from 2019 in a pen-and-paper mode, Union Ministry of Human Resource Development confirmed on Monday. The government withdrew its decisions taken in July to hold the test twice a year and in online mode only. The decision came in the wake of the recommendations given by the Ministry of Health, which raised concerns about conducting the exam twice a year saying such an arrangement might put additional pressure on students. The registration process for the NEET 2019 will begin on November 1 2018. The dates were announced after the government said that it was dropping its plan on conducting NEET for medical and dental courses twice a year along with the Joint Entrance Examination-Main. Check the complete details here: Name of the exam: National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2019 Name of the conducting body: National Testing Agency (NTA) Official website: nta.ac.in • Online registration process: November 1 to November 30, 2018 • Admit cards release date - April 15, 2019 • Exam Date - May 5, 2019 • Result announcement - June 5, 2019

What did HRD Ministry had said earlier?

Addressing a press conference on July 6, HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar had announced that the newly formed NTA would now conduct national-level entrance examinations — NET, NEET, JEE (Mains) — that were organised by the CBSE. Javadekar released the examination calendar in which he said that JEE (Mains) would be held in January and April while NEET was supposed to be conducted in February and May. National Eligibility Test or NET would be conducted in December.

What is NTA?

National Testing Agency (NTA) has been established as a premier, specialist, autonomous and self-sustainedtesting organization to conduct entrance examinations for admission/fellowship in higher educational institutions. It will assess competence of candidates for admissions and recruitment. It was announced by the HRD Ministry that all exams conducted by NTA would be computer-based. Subsequent to the tentative schedule released by the ministry last month, it made public the final schedule of examinations to be conducted by NTA till May, 2019 on Tuesday.