More than 10,000 candidates from State appeared in the Pre Ayurvedic, Homeopathy, Unani, Naturopathy and Yoga Test (PAHUNT) 2013 held on Sunday. The examination was organised by Madhya Pradesh Professional Examinations Board in nine examination centres in State capital. The examination was also held in examination centres of Jabalpur, Gwalior and Indore.
Professional Examination Board Public Relations Officer (PRO) Sunil Shrivastava said that the more than 10,500 enrolled for the examination and around 90 per cent of the students appeared in the examination.
Shrivastava further said that examination was held for admission in seven government Ayurvedic college and one each of homeopathy and Unani Government colleges each. The examination was held for admission on 385 seats of the Ayurvedic, homeopathy and Unani medical colleges.
The examination consisted of a three hour-long objective type paper of 200 marks in which paper was divided into two sections – first section consisted of questions of physics and chemistry and second section consisted of botany and zoology, each section had 100 questions of one mark each. The paper was convenient for Hindi medium students also as the paper was conducted in English and Hindi languages.
According to the students, the examination was comparatively easier than previous year’s paper. While they found the Physics questions tough but Chemistry questions were easier and straight.
Zoology and Botany questions were mainly from the previous year papers but still the Botany section was comparatively tough. Still the paper was easy as there was no negative marking. A common merit list will be released for admission in Ayurvedic, Homeopathy and Unani medical college.