ICAR 2020 AIEEA UG admit card released; check here for direct link

National Testing Agency (NTA) has issued the ICAR AIEEA 2020 admit card for the Undergraduate exam on September 8. The admit card can be downloaded from the official website, icar.nta.nic.in.

The ICAR UG was initially re-scheduled to be conducted on September 7 and September 8 but was later postponed and is now going to be conducted from September 16 to September 22. ICAR PG and SRF/JRF exams will be conducted on September 23 and the admit card for the same is expected to be released in around a week’s time.

Here is the direct link to download the ICAR 2020 UG admit card.

ICAR exam is conducted for admissions to various UG, PG & Ph.D agricultural courses. ICAR is the apex body for coordinating, guiding, and managing research and education in agriculture in the entire country under the aegis of DARE, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.

How to download ICAR AIEEA 2020 admit card:

Visit the NTA ICAR official website.

Click on the link to download the AIEEA UG 2020 admit card.

Enter the log-in details and submit.

The admit card can be accessed, downloaded and printed out.

NEET 2020: NTA gears up for exam on September 13

After JEE Main, which was conducted from September 1 to 6, the National Testing Agency (NTA) is gearing up for medical entrance exam NEET scheduled to be held on September 13 for which over 150,000 candidates have registered.

The Joint Entrance Exam (JEE Main), which began on September 1 for admission to engineering colleges, concluded on Sunday, September 6. While the overall figures were not yet available, trends from the initial three days suggested that around 80 % candidates had taken the test.

This figure is low, compared to previous years when attendance crossed 90 % for the engineering entrance exams, but officials feel that given the circumstances, a sizeable number of candidates have taken the test. The NTA did not officially release the figures on Sunday.

There were also reports of many students facing difficulties due to Covid-19 and the restrictions imposed due to it. Since the JEE (Main) is conducted twice a year now, may candidates have already taken it in January.

A person in the know said since the test is not an annual affair anymore, candidates will get another chance in a few months.

The exams are being conducted in September after being postponed twice in view of the Covid-19 pandemic.

According to NTA officials, 1,597,000 candidates from across the country have registered for NEET, which is a pen-paper based test unlike JEE. In order to maintain social distancing, the NTA has increased the number of centres from 2,546 to 3,843 for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) while the number of candidates per room has been reduced from earlier 24 to 12.The NEET-UG was originally scheduled for May 3, but was pushed to July 26 and then scheduled for September 13.

Increase number of attempts for JEE Advanced: Supreme Court lawyer writes to Education Ministry

After the Supreme Court dismissed the review petition filed by opposition parties against the verdict to conduct the JEE Main and NEET exams, advocate Alakh Alok Srivastava has written a letter to the Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal to increase the number of attempts for JEE Advanced. Currently, a candidate is allowed two attempts at the exam. This, he said, would provide a level-playing field to students from rural areas or poor families.

“The present system for admission to undergraduate programmes of IITs discriminates against underprivileged students, by not providing them level-playing field. It seems to be highly supportive of the privileged students who can afford heft fee of quality schooling and coaching institutes,” the letter read.

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Only students who clear the JEE Main and are ranked in the top 2-2.5 lakh are eligible to appear for JEE Advanced. “Candidates get 6 attempts – two attempts, January and April, each year for three consecutive years for JEE Main while for JEE Advanced only two attempts are allowed as per rules. “Even after qualifying JEE Main with top ranks in their third attempt, students are not permitted to appear in JEE Advanced. This is unjust, particularly to underprivileged and rural students.” the letter read.

Stating that earlier, there was no restriction on the number of attempts for JEE Advanced (then known as IIT JEE) and for admissions to medical colleges in India done through NEET 2020 too candidates get three attempts, the letter states, “the first solution lies in increasing the number of attempts for JEE advance to three (same as for JEE Main per year).”

“Most of the underprivileged and rural students, who do not get the advantage of coaching institutes or quality schooling, are not able to concentrate on JEE Advanced preparation in the first attempt,” the letter claims. For such students, “the second attempt is the first and last attempt,” it added.