Union education minister Prakash Javadekar has announced that the national level engineering and medical entrance examinations - JEE Main and NEET - will be held twice a year from 2019 in online mode. The minister announced this in a press conference in New Delhi on Saturday. According to the minister, Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main and National Eligibility cum Entrance Examination (NEET) will be held by newly formed examination conducting agency, National Testing Agency (NTA).
Apart from NEET and JEE Main, NTA will also conduct National Eligibility Test (NET), Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) and Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test (GPAT) exams from now on.
PTI reported that National Eligibility Test (NET) would be conducted in December and this would be the first exam to be conducted by the newly formed body.
These competitive exams will be held on multiple dates, the minister added.
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JEE Main exams will be held in January and April while NEET will be held twice in February and May.