The Supreme Court stated that the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, NEET 2020 and JEE Main 2020 Exams which are scheduled for the month of September will not be postponed.
As many students had filed a petition in the court, asking for the exam dates to be postponed again. The court dismissed the plea today saying that the exams will be conducted as per schedule.
Earlier , 11 students from various states had filed petition in the SC seeking the postponement of JEE and NEET-Undergraduate examinations due to the rising Covid 19 cases in the country.
The petition said that the exams will put lives of lakhs of young students at risk. The petition also said that ‘the best recourse at this stage can be to wait for some more time, let COVID-19 crisis subside and then only conduct these exams, in order to save lives of the students and their parents’.
While several parents had also submitted plea in favour of the exams as they said that cancellation may lead to loss of an academic year and impact the professional life of students.
The revised schedule for the exams–
JEE(Mains)- September 1-6
JEE-advanced- September 27.
NEET examination- September 13.
Admit cards which were expected to be out by August 15. It is likely that the cards may be released today, August 17.