New Delhi: The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Tuesday, issued an advisory for the students to appear for JEE and NEET exams in September.
This indicates that the central government may go ahead with the plan to conduct the national entrance exams for the IITs and medical courses despite the growing demand to postpone them in view of COVID-19 restrictions and floods in many states, reported NDTV.
JEE (Main) will be conducted for some 8.6 lakh students between September 1 and 6, while the NEET (UG) will be organised across urban centres for about 15 lakh students. Here are the guidelines issued by the NTA to safely conduct the examinations:
However, these guidelines do not clarify whether candidates from containment zones would be allowed to write the examination as they may be asymptomatic and would have also come in contact with a COVID-positive person recently.
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