Over 20,000 appear for NEET

“CBSE had put up a notice on their website a few days ago asking us to download the document and paste a passport size photograph on it. Since I had seen that link,I had taken a photograph along with other documents. Names of a few who did not bring photographs were noted down and photos were clicked on the spot,” said Monira Zeya,from Kendriya Vidyalaya. “There were some questions in the biology paper that were out of syllabus. Otherwise,the paper was okay,” Monira added.

Talking about the paper,Aakash Choudhry,of Aakash classes,said,“The overall NEET 2013 paper quality can be rated as good. If we talk about physics,the level of questions is relatively higher than the previous year AIPMT exam. Although the exam is based on NCERT,some questions were out of NCERT syllabus. The chemistry paper,was a typical medical entrance exam test paper. Equal weightage was given to all the three sections — Physical,Organic and Inorganic Chemistry,” he said.

Choudhry too said there were some discrepancies in the biology paper.

“Some statements were rectified in the new edition of NCERT,but the question framed seemed to be from the old edition with incorrect information. This created confusion among the students. Some questions were not from the current edition of NCERT. Student should be given due benefit for such questions,” he said.

The exam was conducted in offline mode in all states except Karnataka where the examination has been postponed to May 18 due to elections.

Three different sets of question paper were made.

Subject experts who prepared the question sets said they followed the NEET-UG syllabus notified by the Medical Council of India for physics,chemistry,botany and zoology subjects.

In each set,subjects carry questions of same difficulty level.