Another news on NEET issue is again around the corner. The Medical Council of India has said that there will be no limit on the number of attempts for a candidate in the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) or the age for the appearing candidates. During 2016, the Supreme Court mandated a uniform entrance test for medical admission to be conducted by the Central Board of School Education for undergraduate courses and by the National Board of Examinations for postgraduate courses.
State-run institutions were last year exempted from the test which has been made mandatory for 2017. An earlier NEET bulletin from the CBSE stated that a candidate can appear only thrice for the test and those who had completed three attempts would not be eligible for 2017 test. But in February, it clarified that attempts made for AIPMT/NEET before 2017 would not be counted and NEET-2017 would be the…
