2mn candidates sit for NEET-UG across states
New Delhi, May 5 -- More than 2 million students appeared for the NEET-UG 2025 on Sunday for admission to undergraduate medical education in colleges across the country.
The National Testing Agency (NTA) conducted the exam across 5,453 examination centres in 548 cities in India and at 14 international locations.
Held in a single shift from 2pm to 5pm, the pen-and-paper exam required 20.8 million candidates to attempt 180 compulsory questions from physics, chemistry, and biology.
NTA had put in place strict monitoring and checks at the test centres following last year's cancellation of the University Grants Commission-National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) over integrity concerns. Two other exams-CSIR-UGC NET and NEET-PG - were also scrapped pre-emptively.
On Sunday, seven people were arrested in separate incidents reported from Rajasthan and Bhubaneswar for trying to defraud students. CBI has taken over probe in these cases.P7...
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