{"id":127589,"date":"2018-07-27T11:42:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T11:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/?p=127589"},"modified":"2018-07-27T11:42:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T11:42:59","slug":"jee-main-neet-exam-conducted-twice-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/127589","title":{"rendered":"JEE (Main) and NEET exam to be conducted twice a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Delhi, July 27 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; In pursuance of Budget Announcement 2017-18, the Union Cabinet in its <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-127591\" src=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/JE-Main-Exam.jpg\" alt=\"JE Main Exam\" width=\"450\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/JE-Main-Exam.jpg 450w, https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/JE-Main-Exam-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>meeting held on 10.11.2017 approved creation of National Testing Agency (NTA) as an autonomous and self-sustained premier testing organization to conduct entrance examinations for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).&nbsp; NTA will conduct,&nbsp;<em>inter-alia<\/em>, JEE (MAIN) and National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET)-UG twice a year in order to give adequate opportunity to candidates to bring out their best.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;All the entrance examinations will be computer based, for which a network of test practice centres, especially for the aspirants from rural areas will be established so that they have ample opportunity to acquaint themselves with the computer based tests.&nbsp; The Schools and engineering colleges with computer labs will be identified for this purpose, which can be used by any aspirant free of charge.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;Extensive consultations were done with the concerned Ministries\/ Departments of the Government of India as well as other stakeholders both from Central and State Government in a workshop held on 1-9-2017. Final decision and time table will be announced soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;This information was given by the Minister of State (HRD), Dr. Satya Pal Singh today in a written reply to a Rajya Sabha question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi, July 27 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; In pursuance of Budget Announcement 2017-18, the Union Cabinet in its meeting held on 10.11.2017 approved creation of National Testing Agency (NTA) as an autonomous and self-sustained premier testing organization to conduct entrance examinations for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).&nbsp; NTA will conduct,&nbsp;inter-alia, JEE (MAIN) and National Eligibility cum &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-english"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>JEE (Main) and NEET exam to be conducted twice a year | Punjab Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/127589\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"JEE (Main) and NEET exam to be conducted twice a year | Punjab Post\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Delhi, July 27 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; 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