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The Medical Council of India has proposed to hold National Eligibility cum Entrance tests (NEET) for Post Graduate and Super Speciality courses in a changed format from next year.
A total of 1,50,000 under graduate candidates, who have completed internship, or those expecting to complete by March 31, 2012 will be eligible to take the NEET for entrance to Post Graduate courses.
The NEET 2012 notification will come out in August 2011 with applications collected by September end, MCI sources said.
The admit cards will be dispatched by the middle of November, The examination will be online type conducted in the middle of January, 2012 and the number of sessions will be finalised after the feasibility is explored.
The MD/MS courses will commence from May 2, 2012. The candidates aspiring for direct five-year neurosurgery and neurology super-specialty or similar courses will have to take this NEET-PG examination for the courses commencing in August.
There will be a common paper with 180 questions at MBBS standard to be answered in three hours.
The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test for Super Specialities (NEET-SS) for 2012 would be held for candidates who have completed post-graduation (MD/MS) or those expecting to complete postgraduation by June 15, 2012.