Neet done, it's time for Eamcet

Hyderabad: Telangana students may be done with the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (Neet) for medical seats, but they have one more major entrance to go for other fields. Eamcet will be held on May 12, 2017.

Meanwhile, students who appeared for Neet on Sunday at various centres in Hyderabad found physics difficult to crack as compared to biology and chemistry. State board students found Neet more difficult than students from CBSE.
The trasition from Eamcet to Neet was not easy for students of Telugu states. It led to a lot of confusion among students due to lack of clarity about exclusion of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh from the

Supreme Court’s judgment on declaring the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (Neet) as the sole entrance examination for medical admissions.

About 48,000 students appeared in Neet, which was conducted in 97 different centres in Hyderabad on Sunday. Nearly 98 per cent students from Hyderabad appeared and 95 per cent students from the entire state appeared for the exam. Results are expected to be declared on June 8, 2017.

According to students, 60 per cent of the question paper was from within the syllabus, but 30 per cent seemed out of syllabus. Some students complained that three questions from Zoology were completely out of syllabus. Seventeen-year-old Cataram Surekha, of Chaitanya Junior College, Narayanaguda, said,

“Biology was quite easy, chemistry was ok, but there was trouble with physics. As we are from state board we found it more difficult to crack the question paper. This is a national-level examination so we tried following NCERT books instead of our state board books”.

M. Nithisha, 17, who appeared for her exam at Loyolo College, said, “I tackled physics the last, so that led to tension. My aim was to attempt at least 20 questions and I could do it within the time limit.” She added, “The transition from Eamcet to Neet was not at all easy for us as we are from state board. From the first year, we were always prepared by our institutes to crack Eamcet but after Neet became the sole test for medical admissions, our coaching was also changed. We went through a tough time to prepare for Neet within a year, which was not at all easy for us.”

Nerukonda Subramanyam, 52, a parent from Hyderabad whose daughter wrote her exam at DAV Public School, also agreed that physics was tough to crack and would have been easier for students who come from CBSE background. “My daughter said that the paper was not difficult but was not like regular Eamcet,” he said.

Seetha Kiran, Neet coordinator for Hyderabad, said, “The exam went really well and students co-operated.”