92% turnout for NEET in Assam's capital

GUWAHATI: Students in Guwahati showed great enthusiasm for the NEET examination held across 21 centres on Sunday. National Testing Agency sources said the final attendance touched 92.04%.
In Guwahati city, 13,259 candidates were registered to appear in the all-India level medical entrance test. Mixed responses were received on the difficulty level of the question paper from the students and teachers. “After talking to the candidates, the verdict was that the difficulty level was somewhere between easy and medium. Maximum students said the questions were NCERT textbook-based,” said Afjal Hussain Mazumder, a faculty of chemistry at Modern English School, Kahilipara. He said for those who have thoroughly gone through the NCERT books, it will be sufficient to score between 500 and 550 marks.
Dipankar Das, a candidate arrived at the centre early for the exam that started from 2 pm. “There was huge enthusiasm and we were happy to see the paper was comparatively easier. Zoology and botany part was a little tricky but the difficulty level of physics and chemistry sections was average,” he said.
In many centres, a large number of students completed answering the papers half an hour before stipulated time. “Adequate security arrangement was done in all centres in Guwahati and no untoward incident has been reported. There was not any issue related to dress-code violation like in the past and no fear of Covid,” said a source in NTA.
The number of MBBS seats in the state is going up and this has infused more interest among the students to study medicine.
In February this year, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma inaugurated the Lakhimpur Medical College and Hospital, which is the eighth medical college hospital in Assam. After this, the total number of MBBS seats in the state’s medical colleges has gone up to 1,100. The three more proposed medical colleges will increase the total number of MBBS seats in the state to 1,400 in the years to come.