It is Final – ONE All India Entrance Exam for Medical College (MBBS, MD) Admissions in 2011
It is Final – ONE All India Entrance Exam for Medical College (MBBS, MD) Admissions in 2011
The Medical Council of India has finally decided (and Accepted by Health Ministry) that there will be only one common entrance test each for over 30,000 MBBS seats and over 11,000 MD seats in all government and medical colleges in the country, reports the Times of India
Earlier (till this year), students wanting to take up courses in medicine had to appear in at least five to six MBBS and MD entrance tests for various colleges and worry about attendant problems like clash of exam dates as well as travel to distant places for counselling for allotment of seats.
But from 2011, there will be just one entrance test each for MBBS and MD courses offered by all 271 medical colleges, 138 government-run and 133 under private management. These colleges together offer over 31,000 seats for MBBS courses and another 11,000 for PG.
The confusion caused by multiple entrance tests and counselling saw hundreds of students rush to the Supreme Court every year complaining about the system where they were left high and dry even for making a single mistake in their choices.
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In response to a petition filed by Simran Jain through advocate A D N Rao had sought a direction from the Supreme court to Medical Council of India (MCI) and the Centre for a single window system for admissions.
During hearing of the petition before a Bench comprising Justices R V Raveendran and H L Gokhale, the decision for one common entrance test was conveyed by MCI counsel and senior advocate Amarendra Saran. Additional solicitor general P P Malhotra said the government had accepted MCI’s suggestion to amend the regulation concerning admissions to medical colleges.
The state of affairs of private medical colleges and their admission process had come for some serious scrutiny in the apex court, which said last year, “Every year, this is happening. We know how these tricks are played on students every year.”
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Common MBBS entrance test from next year reports The Indian Express on August 3, 2010 that The Union Health Ministry is set to introduce a single entrance test for undergraduate medical courses in the country from the next academic session.
Proposed by the Medical Council of India (MCI) last month, the ministry is learnt to have recently given an in-principle approval to start a “national eligibility-cum-entrance test for admission to MBBS course”.
The move will replace over 17 pre-medical tests (PMTs) conducted all over the country for over 35,000 undergraduate seats.
According to senior officials in the ministry, the common test will bring in uniformity and common standards in the country.
“There is a need to start such a test to usher in uniformity and common standards. There have been complaints that medical colleges were resorting to all sorts of wrongdoings to fill up the seats,” said an official.
any idea when the exam date wil be? and does this exam iclude AIIMS and PGI as well? because PGI application forms are already out to b sumbitted befor e this month end and the exams announced to be on 21/11/10