11 lakh MBBS, BDS aspirants appear for NEET

Over 11 lakh MBBS and BDS aspirants appeared for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) at over 1,900 centres across the country, on Sunday.

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), which conducts the exam, had deployed 490 officials at centres spread across 103 cities. "The exam was conducted from 10 am to 1 pm in offline mode in 10 languages at 1,921 centres in 103 cities for 65,000 MBBS and 25,000 BDS seats," a senior board official said.

A total of 11,38,890 students appeared for the exam including 1,522 NRIs and 613 foreigners.

Students said that they found a couple of questions to be out of syllabus. "While the overall exam was not too tough a couple of questions were out of syllabus, " said Pratigya Shinde, an aspirant from Mumbai.

Sudhanshu Sinhal, MD, Sinhal Medical Academy, "Most students felt that Physics section was the toughest. In my opinion the reason why students found it even tougher was due the imbalance in the 11th and 12 syllabus in Physics section. Since students generally pay more attention when they come in 12th, they have lost out on the 11th questions in Physics which were not studied as deeply as 12th topics and also not so fresh in their minds."