NEET UG 2024: Over 23 lakh candidates registered for exam

If the medical aspirants find any essential elements missing on the NEET UG admit card, NTA has asked the candidates to download the admit card again from the NTA website.

The NEET UG 2024 admit card consists of three pages – page 1 – the centre details and self declaration (undertaking) form, page 2 has a “postcard size photograph” and page 3 has instructions for candidates. The candidate must download all three pages and paste a postcard sized photograph on page 2 before arriving at the center.

Candidates appearing for the exam should follow the NEET UG 2024 dress code as provided by NTA. Aspirants should be dressed casually and avoid clothes with long sleeves. Shoes are also prohibited. Henceforth, the candidates are advised to wear slippers or sandals. Aspirants wearing a customary dress are required to report to the examination center by 12:30 pm. 

The reporting time at the NEET 2024 exam center would be 11:30 am and the last entry into the exam hall would be 1:30 pm. Post this, the candidates will not be allowed entry inside the exam center. Do not carry any banned items along and will have to undergo the security procedures. No bio-breaks will be allowed during the first one hour after the beginning of the exam and the last half an hour of the exam. Apart from the biometric attendance and frisking at entry, candidates will be frisked and biometric attendance will be taken again on entry from bio-break or toilets break, NTA added.

Of the 24 lakh registered candidates, over 10 lakh are male students, more than 13 lakh medical aspirants are female students and 24 students have registered under the ‘third gender’ category.

NEET UG 2024 is a pen-paper-based test. The duration of the test would be three 3 hours and 20 minutes.

NEET UG 2024 permitted items

– NEET UG admit card along with self declaration (undertaking) having postcard size photograph affixed on the designated space (page 2) downloaded from the NTA website (a clear printout on A4 size paper) duly filled in.

– Valid ID proof preferably aadhaar card (with photograph), e-aadhaar, ration card, aadhaar enrolment number with photo. However, other valid identity proof issued by the government – PAN card, driving license, voter ID, Class 12 admit or registration card or passport, original school identity card with photo will also be considered only in case of non-availability. All other ID or photocopies of IDs even if attested or scanned photo of IDs in mobile phone will not be considered as valid ID Proof.

– Personal transparent water bottle

– Additional photograph same as uploaded on the NEET UG application form, to be pasted on the attendance sheet

–  PwD certificate and scribe-related documents, if applicable

The NTA has urged all the candidates taking the medical entrance test on May 5 to refrain from engaging in any form of unfair means or practices. The agency has also adopted a zero-tolerance policy towards malpractices and has introduced a series of robust measures to prevent any attempts to compromise the examination, NTA said in a statement issued late last night. NTA has implemented various measures such as multistage biometric authentication for both candidates and invigilation staff, surprise visits by flying squads, utilization of AI tools to identify discrepancies in candidates’ application details, thorough invigilation supervision, among others.

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