National Testing Agency (NTA) on Tuesday confirmed that the Joint Entrance Exam or JEE (Main) and National Eligibility cum Entrance Test or NEET (UG) will be conducted as per the schedule after Center said that the entrance examinations will not be postponed.
“The Hon’ble Supreme Court has also, inter alia, ordered that “We find that there is absolutely no justification in the prayer made for postponement of the examination in question relating to NEET UG-2020 as well as JEE (Main) April, 2020,” the NTA notification stated.
Notably, these exams have been postponed a number of times due to the coronavirus pandemic.
NTA in its statement also confirmed that the NEET UG exam 2020 admit cards will be released shortly. The agency had already released JEE Main 2020 admit card on August 17.
Earlier, the Centre has released Standard Operating Protocols (SOPs) that the National Testing Agency (NTA) will have to follow strictly while conducting engineering entrance exam JEE Main 2020 and JEE Advanced 2020 and medical entrance exams NEET 2020.
On the day of the exams, candidates would undergo thermal scan. However, no thumb impression would be taken from the applicants.
Candidates will have to carry a self-declaration stating that they have not tested COVID positive and they don’t have any symptom.
At the entry, the temperature of the candidates will be taken. Those who will have less than 99.4 degrees Fahrenheit will be allowed to move to the next level of document verification. Those who will have higher than the permitted temperature will be taken to an isolated room
To ensure a safe and secure environment throughout the exam process with touch-free processes used at the time of requirement.
No refreshments would be provided to the invigilators and they need to bring their own eatables.
Meanwhile, students have signed petitions to cancel the exams. Environmental activist Greta Thurnberg has also voiced against the issue,
She tweeted that it is “deeply unfair” that students have been asked to appear in the tests during the pandemic.
Earlier, thehe Supreme Court has already dismissed a petition to postpone the exams, and has told the Centre to accommodate those who wish to give the NEET exams and are stuck outside the country, in Vande Bharat flights home. The Medical Council of India, which organises the NEET, has maintained to the apex court that the exam cannot be postponed further.
