Candidates who had applied for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2018 got an opportunity on Sunday when the took the free mock test The Hindu EDGE had organised in association with Motion Kota Rajasthan with Sri Ramakrishna Institutions as the venue partner.
B. Pavitra who took the test said it had helped her assess her preparation and improve upon it. “The mock NEET test was as good as the entrance examination in that it helped me assess how many of the 180 questions I can attempt, how many I cant get right and why I found a few questions tough.”
She had come all the way from Ettimadai to take the test.
A.D. Sangireeth had come all the way from Coonoor to take the test because he said he wanted to plan his preparation. The student said that he had attempted 100 of the 180 questions and found several questions tough, particularly that were from physics and chemistry.
P. Ranganathan, director, Coimbatore branch, Motion Kota Rajasthan, said 220 candidates had taken the test and of those around 170 had applied for NEET this year. His organisation had prepared the mock test question paper based on questions asked to candidates in the past seven years in the All India Pre Medical Test and last three years in NEET.
The organisation would upload the answers in a day or two to help the students assess where they had gone wrong. It would also send them the results.
Mr. Ranganathan told students that it was important for them to practice time management while taking the test and avoid questions they were unsure of answering correctly, for NEET carried negative marks for wrong answers.
Ramya Ranganathan, Coimbatore branch in-charge, Motion Kota Rajasthan, said with only four days left for the NEET examinations, candidates would do well to revise what they had studied than attempt to study chapters that they had skipped thus far.
S. Krishnan, Head of Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, College of Pharmacy, Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Paramedical Sciences, spoke on various courses available in the paramedical field.
