NEET Exam 2020 Date Update (13th September)

The new exam date of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for the academic year 2020 is now announced by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and National Testing Agency (NTA).

The Human Resource Development Minister Mr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank has declared that the updated exam date for NEET 2020 will be 13th September 2020. He has announced this update with tweet on Friday, 3rd July, 2020.

Students have been waiting for the final date of the NEET exam 2020, since the COVID-19 pandemic had caused it to be postponed. The NEET exam was scheduled in the first week of May previously.

As per the notification of the National Testing Agency which was released on 10th April 2020 the exam was postponed. And now with this new date of exam students can plan their study patterns Although this is just a tentative date. If the situation of COVID-19 gets under control till the date, then NEET exam will be conducted on 13th September 2020.

The Ministry of Human Resource Development and National Testing Agency holds all rights to change the exam date again if necessary. With this much information students still get plenty of time to prepare for the exam.

It has been cleared that the only exam date is updated and the syllabus as well as the exam pattern are the same as mentioned in the previous notifications.

• The exam pattern of the NEET-2020 exam is the same as previous.
• The exam would be of a 3 hours time period.
• According to NTA regulations, the NEET exam would be of pen paper format.
• There were 3 subjects for the exam, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology.
• There would be 45 questions of Physics for 180 marks.
• Another 45 questions of Chemistry for 180 marks, and 90 questions for Biology for 360 marks.

The total exam would be of 720 marks. There would be multiple choice type of questions and options. Each right answer would get 4 marks whereas each wrong answer would result in deduction of 1 mark.

Distribution of marks and questions as follows

Students have got plenty of time to study for the NEET 2020 exam. It is advised for the students to plan and act on proper time management as well as study pattern.

Here are some mock tests as well as previous years question papers for the practice and study purpose of the students. Click here to get a look at the NEET exam previous years’ question papers. You can download them with answers as well.

Apart from the question papers and mock tests students need to study the Physics, Chemistry and Biology syllabus for the NEET exam.

Please check this site for the syllabus of the NEET exam. You can download the pdf format of the syllabus for the NEET-2020 exam.

Following are the Neet 2020 dates which are importants & candidates must be aware of these which are tabulated below:

There is no notification regarding the admit card of the NEET 2020 exam yet. Although there is a chance of students getting their admit cards between mid June 2020 to June end. This is because the previous schedule shows that the admit card of the NEET candidates was to release 37 days before the exam date.

So the students are advised to start working on their strategies and plans and preparing for the NEET exam 2020.

Let’s hope that the Covid-19 crisis should get under control soon and there would be no postponement of NEET exam again. Yet keep checking the official sites for the further updates.

Good luck students!