Kalpana Kumari, who hails from Bihar, brought laurels to her State as she bagged the top rank in National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) for admission to medical and dental colleges across the country.
A total of 12, 69, 922 candidates have appeared for the exam conducted on May 6. Out of total l 7,14,562 candidates who have qualified the NEET examination this year maximum are from the State of Uttar Pradesh followed by Kerala and Maharashtra. About 37,899 candidates from Bihar have qualified the exam which is gateway to medical and dental education in country.
Kalpana, who bagged the top rank by securing a percentile score of 99.99 and 691 marks get trained at Aakash coaching in Delhi. “I want to give credit to the faculties who taught me as they were experts of their subjects,” she said.
Telangana’s Rohan Purohit and Delhi’s Himanshu Sharma jointly bagged the second position with 690 marks. The third rank was also shared by Aarosh Dhamija from Delhi and Prince Chaudhary from Rajasthan, both scored 686 marks. The test was conducted in 136 cities in 11 languages.
The results can be accessed on official websites cbseneet.nic.in, cbse.nic.in and cbseresults.nic.in. CBSE will also provide NEET results through Digilocker at https://digilocker.gov.in/. This is a CBSE initiative in collaboration with Digilocker.
NEET is conducted by the CBSE for admission to MBBS and BDS courses in colleges run with the approval of the Medical Council of India (MCI) and the Dental Council of India (DCI).
A total of 13.36 lakh candidates had registered for the exam, a 16.49-per cent increase from last year. However, 12.69 lakh candidates appeared for the test, of whom 7.14 lakh cleared it. As many as 76,778 candidates from Uttar Pradesh cleared the test while, around 72,000 and 70,000 candidates cleared the test from Kerala and Maharashtra respectively.
The NEET is conducted by the CBSE for admission to MBBS and BDS courses in colleges run with the approval of the Medical Council of India (MCI) and the Dental Council of India (DCI).
The test is not for admissions to institutions established through an Act of Parliament such as the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) in Puducherry.