NEET UG 2018: Students frisked before entering examination halls

The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to MBBS and BDS courses began on Sunday. Around 1.07 lakh candidates are expected to take the examination in Tamil Nadu. As many as 24,720 aspirants had opted to take the exam in Tamil.

The exam timing is from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Candidates were required to produce their admit card and passport-size photograph during the examination. Close to 5,000 candidates from Tamil Nadu are appearing for the examination in Kerala.

Many schools were taken up as NEET examination centres. Notices from the CBSE pasted outside some exam centres listed the items that are barred inside the examination centres. Items such as geometry/pencil box, calculator, pouch, pen, pen drives, erasers, log table and communication devices like phones, Bluetooth, health band, transistor, capacitor, diode, triodes were barred. Eatables, water bottles, wallet, handbag, belt, cap, ATM/Credit/Debit Card, watch etc. were also found on the list.

Girls are asked to remove hairpins, closed sandals and earrings before going into the exam centre.   | Photo Credit: M. Vedhan

Dress code

According to the notice, students were allowed to wear only light clothes with half sleeves. Clothes with big buttons, brooch or any badge, flowers, etc. didn’t make the cut. Students were instructed to wear slippers or sandals as shoes were not allowed.

Sacred thread or bands that students wore on their wrists were being removed before they entered the examination hall. At many places parents were adding more to the confusions than the students.

Madurai

A total of 11,800 students are taking exams in 20 centres in Madurai. Many from interior parts of southern districts were allotted centres in Madurai. Some students who came in the early hours on Sunday morning had to make use of public toilets in the bus stand.

With no permission to enter the examination centres before the stipulated time and nowhere to wait, large number of parents were seen waiting on the road in front of some of the centres in places like Narimedu and P&T Nagar in the Ccty.