West Bengal Joint Entrance Exam WBJEE 2019 to be held on April 21 next year

The West Bengal Joint Entrance Exam board is likely to hold the entrance test (WBJEE 2019) for admission to engineering colleges and pharmacy institutes on April 21 next year.

West Bengal JEE board chairman Malayendu Saha announced the dates while releasing the 2018 exam results.

"We have tentatively fixed April 21, 2019, which is a Sunday," Saha said.

The board will hold mock counseling across 33 centers so that the modalities of ecounselling are clear to the candidates and they can opt for the institute and the discipline of their preference.

"The mock counseling will start from May 28 and continue till June 2," Saha said.

The details of the centers will be uploaded on the website, www.wbjeeb.in very soon.

"The e-counseling is likely to start from June 4, provided the Plus II results of all boards are declared by then," Saha said.

The West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education is still to declare the Plus II results. The CBSE board, too, is yet to declare the Plus II results.

The board has planned to hold the counselling early so that the admission process can be started early and the problem of vacancy, specially, in the private engineering colleges can be avoided. For the same reason, the results were declared early, a board official said.

Last year the results entrance test was declared on June 5. This year, WBJEE was held on April 22, 2018 and the results were announced on May 23, 2018.

Here it may be recalled that in 2017 the WBJEE was held on April 23.

(Source: Telegraph, edited)

Updated: 18-12-2018

EduNews: WBJEE 2019 date to change

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EduNews: IITJEE Main 2018 cut-off score is lowest ever

The cut-off score used for this year's IIT JEE Main to determine general category candidate's eligibility for JEE Advanced is the lowest ever and caps a four-year downward trend.

Professors at the IIT, which admit students on the basis of their JEE Advanced scores, suggested two possible reasons. One: an increase in available IIT seats; Two: top students' growing preference for non-engineering courses such as medicine. All those who scored more than 74 in the IIT JEE Main, out of a total marks of 360,will be allowed to take the JEE Advanced 2018.

Year	Cut-off score (out of 360) for JEE Advanced
2018	74
2017	81
2016	100
2015	105
2014	115
2013	113

When JEE Main and JEE Advanced were started in 2013, the cut-off used was 113. This increased to 115 the following year but has been falling every year since then.

Dr.Panigrahi of IIT Kharagpur and former JEE Advanced chairperson, said that in 2013, the IITs wanted the 1.5 lakh best IIT JEE Main candidates to take the JEE Advanced. In 2018, they want 2.2 lakh to do so. This could be because the institutes along with their seats have increased from about 9500 in 2013 to almost 12000 now.

Also, the number of students taking IITJEE Main has been declining from 13 lakh in 2013 to about 11 lakh in 2018. "Demand for engineering courses is falling. Large numbers of seats remain vacant in engineering colleges," Rajeev Kumar former professor of IIT Kharagpur now in JNU, said.

This fact is also supported by the data since number of students taking the NEET (National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test), which determines admission to undergraduate medical and dental courses, has grown from 8 lakh in 2016 to 13 lakh in 2018.

(Source: Telegraph, edited)

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CBSE to declare IIT-JEE Main 2018 results on April 30 afternoon

The results for the Indian Institutes of Technology-Joint Entrance Exam (IIT-JEE) Main 2018 will be announced today on April 30 by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). Around fourteen lakh students who appeared for the IIT-JEE Main 2018 online and offline examination can check their results for both JEE Main which are expected to be declared late afternoon today on the official websites - jeemain.nic.in, cbseresults.nic.in or results.nic.in

The future of these engineering aspirants who have appeared for the exam on April 8 (offline) and April 15 will be decided after CBSE releases the result.

The scores of candidates -- All India and category ranks -- obtained will be displayed. The rank card can also be downloaded by candidates for admission purposes.

How and where to check your IIT JEE Main result

• CBSE announces the result at jeemain.nic.in and cbseresults.nic.in.
• To check the result, you have to log in and enter your JEE Main roll number and date of birth.
• The result which is displayed on the screen can be downloaded as the rank card.
• Use the option to print the rank card. It is advised to take a copy.
• It is also better to thoroughly check all details mentioned on the rank card.

How to confirm if you qualified for JEE Advanced or not? (IIT JEE Advanced 2018)

The JEE main is conducted every year for admission to various engineering and architecture courses in NITs, IITs and other CFTIs across the country. The exam is also an entrance examination for JEE Advanced.

The candidates who clear the JEE Main 2018 will be considered qualified for appearing in JEE Advanced 2018 examination. The JEE Advanced examination is conducted for admission to IITs.

The CBSE Board will also release the JEE main 2018 result along with the mark on - cbseresults.nic.in and results.nic.in.

Since JEE Main is the screening test for JEE Advanced, the top 2,24,000 candidates who successfully clear it must seriously look into preparing for JEE Advanced 2018.

CBSE will announce the JEE Main cutoff 2018 which will specify the scores required to be eligible to apply and appear for JEE Advanced 2018 which will be held on May 20 .

You can fill the JEE Advanced application form 2018 between May 2 and May 7.

Eligibility for NITs, IIITs and CFTIs Admissions

The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) will conduct common counseling for the IITs, NITs, IIITs and GFTIs from June 19 tentatively.

Allotment will be done according to the ranks and preferences selected during JoSAA registration.

Candidates who have a valid rank in the JEE Main or JEE Advanced are eligible to apply for the admissions in these institutes.

Common Final MBBS Exam - National Exit Test NEXT gets Union Cabinet’s approval

Common Final MBBS Exam - National Exit Test (NEXT)

The Union Cabinet has approved a common final MBBS exam across India to be called the National Exit Test (NEXT) and left it to states to decide whether practitioners from alternative health systems may prescribe modern medicines. The Cabinet has also approved an amendment to provide for one year imprisonment and a fine up to Rs 5 lakh for any unauthorised practice of medicine, a move that the health ministry said was intended to address concerns about the safety in healthcare and take strict action against quackery.

The cabinet in a meeting on Wednesday 28th March, chaired by PM Modi, approved these amendments in the National Medical Commission (NMC) bill that seeks to create a new regulatory body for medicine to replace the existing Medical Council of India (MCI).

The amendments follow recommendations by a parliamentary standing committee that had rejected the bill's proposal for a separate national licentiate exam for MBBS doctors to be able to practice medicine. The standing committee had called for the final year MBBS exam to serve as the licentiate exam.

The cabinet has also accepted the standing committee's recommendation that the government regulate fees of up to 50 percent of seats in private medical colleges.

The cabinet has approved an amendment that removes the provision of a 'bridge course' proposed in the original bill to allow practitioners of ayurveda and homeopathy, among other alternative forms of medicine, to prescribe modern medicines.

The amendments also include an increase in the number of state representatives in the NMC - the nominees of states and union territories in the commission have been increased from 3 to 6. The NMC will be made up of 25 members of whom at least 21 will be doctors, the government said.

(Source: The Telegraph, edited)

Aadhaar not needed for NEET 2018 Application

The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday, 7th March that Aadhaar cannot be made mandatory for submitting National Medical Entrance Test NEET application form.

The court limited is interim order to the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), through which students for undergraduate medical courses are selected.

NEET 2018 exam – which will be conducted by CBSE is scheduled to be held on May 6. The last date for submission of NEET 2018 application form is March 9. The court said CBSE should accept alternative proof of identity such as passport, driving licence, voter identity card etc. instead of insisting on Aadhaar cards.

Attorney-General K.K Venugopal, representing the Center, submitted that neither the government nor the Aadhaar issuer had asked the CBSE to make the card mandatory for NEET. The Attorney-General said the CBSE had on its own volition decided to insist on Aadhaar cards.  

However, in the same breath, Venugopal said the authorities had received complaints of a large number of impersonations for the NEET. 
Updated 9th March 2018: The CBSE has extended the last date for submitting the National Medical Entrance Exam - NEET 2018 applications to March 12.

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CBSE makes NEET a must for foreign MBBS, also disallow students of NIOS and other Private Boards

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) issued a notification on Friday, 9th Feb 2018 on NEET 2018 introducing some new requirements and changes:

Students wanting to pursue MBBS or any other undergraduate medicine courses in foreign universities will have to clear the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) from this year, 2018.

The notification also bars students paying out of open schools from taking NEET. This means students passing from National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) will not be able to take the NEET 2018, to be conducted by the CBSE. Private students passing out from other boards are also not allowed to take the NEET.

"The ministry of health has decided that candidates who wish to pursue MBBS or BDS from foreign medical colleges and foreign medical colleges need to qualify the NEET," said the information bulletin issued by the CBSE.

The Medical Council of India (MCI) which regulates medical education said the provision of NEET qualification has been introduced to ensure that only meritorious students go for medical education to foreign countries. According to one MCI sources, "Indian students mostly go to former USER countries, China and the Philippines. When they come back, they appear in an exam to be able to practice. But less than 25% students qualify the exam to be able to medical practice. The NEET qualification will ensure quality to some extent."

An NIOS official said the students paying out of the institutions were allowed to take NEET till last year. The MCI sources said the NIOS students, who pursue education in the correspondence mode, did not have practical classes and so could not be allowed to appear for the NEET (National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test).

As per the CBSE notice to be eligible for NEET one needs to have studied physics, chemistry, biology or bio-technology in the past two years of their 12 - year schooling.

 Some More Information about NEET

v   The state governments of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have decided to offer the 15% all India quotas in medical colleges run by them. As the two states had earlier not participated in the programme, students from these states could not apply for admission under 15% quota in other states. Now that the two states have decided to implement the reservation, medical aspirants from these two states can apply for MBBS admission in colleges in other states under the all India quota.

v   The CBSE will hold the NEET in English and other regional languages like - Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Odia, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

v   The results of NEET 2018 will be declared on 5th June 2018. NEET clearance is a must for all students seeking to study MBBS, BDS, and undergraduate medicine in India and abroad.

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