No Change in the Syllabus for NEET UG 2018

The Central Board of Secondary Education says that the, Syllabus of NEET UG 2018 will be exactly same as it was in the NEET UG 2017. There were no change in the syllabus for NEET UG 2018. CBSE had mentioned it on the official website http://cbseneet.nic.in.

There were speculations that state curriculum might be included in the syllabus. The notice issued by the CBSE states, “The syllabus of NEET (UG) 2018 will be exactly same as it was for NEET (UG) 2017. There is no change in the syllabus of NEET (UG) 2018”. The NEET 2018 notification is expected to be released anytime soon.

In 2017, the exam was conducted on Sunday, May 7 and therefore, this year too, NEET is likely to be held in the first week of May. The exam is held for admission in MBBS seats in medical colleges across India. Only AIIMS and JIPMER conducts their own exam. NEET was made mandatory from 2016. 

About NEET 2018

The National Eligibility and Entrance Test or NEET is an entrance examination in India, for students who wish to study any graduate medical course (MBBS/ dental course (BDS) or postgraduate course (MD / MS) in government or private medical colleges in India. Like the previous year, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is expected to release the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test - NEET UG 2018 exam schedule in the last week of January. Although the official notification for the exam has not been released yet, here we give the tentative exam schedule, eligibility and other details so that students have necessary documents and information while they are applying for NEET 2018.

The exam will be conducted in Hindi, English, Urdu, Gujarati, Marathi, Oriya, Bengali, Assamese, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada. There will be one paper containing 180 objective type questions (four options with a single correct answer) from physics, chemistry and biology (botany and zoology). The duration of paper would be three hours from 10 am to 1 pm.

Aspirants should have passed class 12 or equivalent exam with physics, chemistry, biology/bio-technology and English individually. Moreover, they must have obtained a minimum of 50 per cent marks taken together in physics, chemistry and biology/bio-technology at the qualifying examination.

For a detailed information about NEET UG 2018 see our article NATIONAL ELIGIBILITY CUM ENTRANCE TEST - NEET UG 2018