The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET-2018) for students seeking a career in MBBS and BDS courses passed off peacefully on Sunday.
Colleges that served as examination centres wore a busy look with a large number of students, along with their parents, reaching them well in advance. The exam started at 10 a.m. but students were let in three batches — at 7.30 a.m., 8.30 a.m. and the final batch at 9.30 a.m. after which gates were closed.
The stringent norms put in place to ensure smooth conduct of the exam were scrupulously followed by the officials and staff deployed at the centres. A girl student from Jaggaiahpet, who arrived late at one of the exam centres in Vijayawada, was not allowed to write the exam. A boy wearing a full-sleeves shirt was asked to change the shirt and come. Girls were seen removing their ear studs or nose pins in the last minute.
24,700 appear in city
Exam centres were set up in Vijayawada, Guntur, Nellore, Kurnool, Rajahmundry, Tirupati and Visakhapatnam and 24,700 students took their test in the 31 exam centres in and around Vijayawada.
K.Bhavanayarana and Rambabu, principals of the KCP Siddhartha Residential School at Kanuru and P.B. Siddhartha Public School respectively, were the city coordinators. The former was in charge of 17 centres located in the peripheral areas of the city and up to Vuyyuru while the remaining 14 centres in the city were supervised by the latter.
“Our efforts paid off as the exam went off peacefully without any hitch,” said Mr. Bhavanarayana.
In Visakhapatnam, around 8,000 students wrote the test in 19 centres. The medical aspirants found the physics section tricky compared to the standard questions in the biology and chemistry sections.
A few students were denied entry for coming late and students were thoroughly frisked.
The exam was a smooth affair in Tirupati where out of the 10,202 registered candidates, 9,753 attended while 449 students abstained. S. Indira, principal of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan School was the city coordinator.
