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#shiftNEETUG 2021 Trends On Twitter, Students Ask Medical Exam Be Deferred

NEET 2021: Thousands of Medical aspirants have been posting on the microblogging website Twitter, using #shiftNEETUG, for a postponement of NEET 2021.

#shiftNEETUG 2021 Trends On Twitter, Students Ask Medical Exam Be Deferred
#shiftNEETUG 2021 trends as students request to postpone medical exam (representational)

Postpone NEET 2021: Thousands of Medical aspirants have been posting on the microblogging website Twitter, using #shiftNEETUG, for a postponement of NEET 2021. They have given different reasons why NEET 2021 should be postponed, most of them are saying the entrance exam is close to their board exams and other state and national-level entrance exams. Students say it is not possible to prepare for different exams, with different question patterns, together.

NEET 2021 is scheduled for September 12. Students are saying it should be postponed by a week or two.

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Exams that are close to NEET UG 2021 include CBSE Class 12 improvement and compartment exams, and ICAR AIEEA UG 2021. A day after NEET, on Monday, September 13, CBSE Class 12 Mathematics paper will be conducted.

Students have also complained that the admit card of NEET should be released early, not three days before the exam as announced by the National Testing Agency (NTA).

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NEET 2021 will also be conducted in additional exam centres. The number of NEET exam centre cities have been increased this year to 198 from 155 last year.

The number of examination centres has also been increased from last year's 3,862.