NEET-UG
Upper age limit for NEET-UG removed for all candidates
New Delhi/IBNS: The upper age limit for appearing in the undergraduate medical entrance exam, NEET-UG, has been removed for all candidates, the country's top medical regulator body, the National Medical Commission, has said.
Earlier, the upper age limit was 25 years for general category candidates and 30 years in the case of reserved category candidates.
The decision was taken in the fourth NMC meeting held in October last year.
In a letter addressed to the National Testing Agency (NTA), Dr Pulkesh Kumar, Secretary of the medical commission, has asked the agency to remove the maximum age criteria from the information bulletin of NEET UG.
“It has been decided in the 4th NMC meeting that…there should not be any fixed upper age limit for appearing in the NET UG examination. Therefore, the information bulletin may be modified accordingly,” Dr Kumar said.
NEET is the only entrance examination in India for admission to MBBS, BDS and some other allied courses.
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