NEET, JEE twice a year: A Boon or Bane for NRI Students?

India's higher education system is undergoing a major overhaul with Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley announcing the launch of National Testing Agency (NTA) in 2017-18.

India’s higher education system is undergoing a major overhaul with Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley announcing the launch of National Testing Agency (NTA) in 2017-18. NTA will now be responsible for conducting JEE Main and NEET starting from making schedule of examination to the counselling process.

Through short episodes of calculative discussions, the Union Cabinet under the valuable guidance of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has come with a new mode of examination that is expected to benefit almost 40 lakh aspirants altogether.

Considering that thousands of NRI students from Middle East are appearing for engineering and medical entrance examinations, it is yet to be seen if these changes will bring ease or create chaos amongst NRI students.

What is National Testing Agency

National Testing Agency works as a progressive autonomous body that achieved its glorious registration under the Indian Societies Registration Act, 1860; and brought a new cult in the gesture of conventional entrance exams.

• The NTA would initially conduct those entrance examinations which are currently being conducted by the CBSE. Other examinations will be taken up gradually after NTA is fully geared up.
• The entrance examinations will be conducted in online mode at least twice a year, thereby giving adequate opportunity to candidates to bring out their best.

Likewise, the collective effort of them gives the actual flexibility to the students who will be getting the question paper set in a more normalized and less clueless critical aura. In addition to that due to the efficacy of the two times exam giving a probability, the burden of the various entrance examination will be reduced to a great extent.

What will be the benefits of NTA for NRI students appearing for JEE 2019?

National Testing Agency has efficiently created a smooth platform for various aspirants of different entrance examinations altogether. Moreover, the birth of NTA has actually disburdened varied entrance examination conducting bodies like CBSE, NEET and UGC by absorbing the entire accountability over its stupendous shoulder.

The National Testing Agency’s indispensability has provided the aspirants new method of attempting the stupendous entrance examinations nationwide.

• With NTA’s well-honed aspirants can now be superficially able to perform in different entrance examinations like JEE twice a year and NEET once in a year.
• National Testing Agency’s commencement will now open giant gates almost to 40 Lakh aspirants of different entrance examinations.
• Almost a changed model of assessment for the questions in the aptitude section, problem-solving skills and many more will come in a more balanced avatar
• Though initially, the National testing agency will engage in conducting entrance examinations for JEE Mains for B.Tech, B.Arch., NEET for medical, besides these NTA will also have hands in UGC NET.
• Just for the sake of relieving the aspirants from the huge pressure of preparation and performance of varied entrance examination, NTA has arranged the online mode of examination simplified into twice a year. Thus now the aspirants can perform their best and can even prepare for their next attempt if they wish for, within a short gap of time from the first to the next attempt.

Important Dates of JEE 2019 as per NTA

According to the release of the Application forms for the 2019 exams by National Testing Agency, here are some important dates:

JEE Main 2019 Examination (January)

JEE Main 2019 Examination (April)

The rendition of the National Test Agency will get more shine under the coherent effort of seven acute task force members from IIT background which will be in control of an IIT-Director.

The entire task force will be exclusively stuffed with members from NCERT, UGC, AICTE, CBSE background.

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