New Delhi: The National Testing Agency (NTA) Tuesday released a set of instructions, including the dress code to be adhered to inside examination halls, for students who will take the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET) for undergraduate medical admissions Sunday.
According to the agency’s information bulletin, as well as the admit cards issued to candidates, the aspirants cannot wear full-sleeved, light-coloured clothes at the exam centre. Additionally, the admit card also mentions that clothes with big buttons will not be allowed, and that students cannot wear shoes with thick soles. Slippers and sandals, however, are allowed.
If a student is required to wear traditional clothes to the exam centre, he or she must reach the venue much in advance for a thorough frisking, the admit card states.
Students will also have to wear masks and gloves while writing the exam.
Stationery items like textual material (printed or written), bits of papers, geometry/pencil box, plastic pouch, calculator, pen, scale, writing pad, pen drive, eraser, calculator, log table, electronic pen/scanner etc. will not be allowed inside the exam hall.
Students will be given pens inside the exam centres.
Mobile phones, earphones, health band, and other items such as wallet, goggles, handbags, belt, cap, ornaments, and opened food items, won’t be allowed either.
Candidates have been asked to only carry a transparent water bottle, masks, gloves and a bottle of hand sanitiser inside the exam hall.
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Self-declaration required
The NEET for undergraduate admissions is scheduled to be held on 13 September.
It is being held days after the Narendra Modi government organised the JEE for engineering admissions — between 1 and 6 September — despite numerous student protests over being asked to take the exams amid the pandemic.
Like JEE candidates, those appearing for NEET have also been asked to sign a self-declaration to inform the authorities if they have come in contact with any Covid-positive person over the past few days and if they display any symptoms.
The number of candidates that have registered for NEET is almost double that of JEE. While 8.58 lakh students had registered for JEE, 15.97 lakh candidates have signed up for NEET (UG).
In light of the pandemic, the number of exam centres has been increased to 3,843 from the usual 2,546.
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