The request for review has been submitted by ministers from West Bengal (Moloy Ghatak), Jharkhand (Rameshwar Oraon), Rajasthan (Raghu Sharma), Chhattisgarh (Amarjeet Bhagat), Punjab (BS Sidhu) and Maharashtra (Uday Ravindra Sawant).
According to the petition, according to the NTA, approximately 9.53 lakh and 15.97 lakh of students have registered for JEE (Main) and NEET (UG), respectively. The allegation said that JEE Mains is scheduled to take place in 660 test centers with 9.53 lakhs of students, approximately 1,443 students per center. Similarly, for NEET UG, 15.97 lakhs of students will appear at 3,843 centers across the country, nearly 415 students per center, she said.
Meanwhile, in the data published yesterday, the Ministry of Education revealed that of the total of 458,521 students who had registered to take the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) -Main for admission to engineering schools, at least 114,563 students left to appear in the first three days.
The number of dropouts, about 25 percent, refocuses attention on the demand for a change in exam dates due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Only 343,958 went to take the exams in the first three days. Approximately 54.67 percent of applicants took the exam on day one, 81 percent did it on day two, and on day three they say an 82 percent attendance.
The National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts both exams, will hold the JEE core exams from September 1-6, while NEET will take place on September 13.
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