NEET 2020 Results: After hours of waiting, the National Testing Agency (NTA) released the results of the National Entry and Eligibility Test (NEET) for undergraduate courses in medicine and dentistry on Friday night.
This year, four students from Maharashtra made it into the top 50 rank. Ashish Zantye, 18, from Malwan in the Sindhudurg district, became the best state this year with his score of 710 out of 720, ranking 19th in all of India. While studying at her high school from Monday to Friday, Ashish would travel to Goa on weekends to prepare for her entrance exam with a local training institute.
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“Many students in Malwan prepare for all the India entrance exams by traveling to Goa on the weekends, me too. My focus was to perform well on class 12 boards as well as NEET. I hope to get a seat at AIIMS, Delhi or KEM, Mumbai for my MBBS degree, ”said Ashish. His mother is a gynecologist and his father is a doctor. “Right now my focus is to do well in bachelor’s degree and after that I will pursue higher education in radiology or a non-clinical field including research,” Ashish added.
The other names in the top 50 included Tejomoy Vadiya, Parth Kadam and Abhay Chillarge at 43, 45 and 46 respectively.
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This year it rose to the highest records ever received by NTA with 15.97 lakh of candidates registering for the exam. However, only 13.66 lakh students appeared for the exam, of which 7.71 lakh students have now qualified for admission.
As in recent years, Maharashtra accounted for the highest number of registered candidates for the national medical entrance test with 2.27 lakh of students registering for the test, of which 1.95 lakh of students applied for the this year’s exam. Yet only 79,974 of these students have qualified for admission to the undergraduate medical and dental seats, the lowest among all the states in India.
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The qualification criteria for applicants in the open category also placed in the 50th percentile this year. Eligibility for other reserved categories, including Other Backward Classes (OBC), Scheduled Caste (SC), and Scheduled Tribe (ST) is in the 40th percentile and above. The limits to qualify for the exam increased marginally from 119 in 2018 to 134 this year.
While the results were released late in the day, NTA had released the final answer key for the entrance exam in the afternoon, and the same left many students upset. Once again, this year the NTA has not accepted a single challenge posed by the students. “Many students had challenged two questions specifically from the Biology section and approached the testing authority with evidence. The NTA should scrap the challenge process because students end up wasting Rs 1,000 per question they challenge, and in the end they are left despondent, ”said Akruti Patel, father of one of the aspiring doctors.
Maharashtra:
Registered: 2,27,659
Appeared: 1,95,338
Rated: 79.974 (40.94% of those that appeared)
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