8.5% Students Skip NEET Retest; 3 Miss Exam Over Address Confusion

Hyderabad: Eighty-nine percent of the total 73,059 registered students appeared for the NEET-UG re-examination. Participation in the re-examination was 8.55 percent lower than that of the NEET-UG examination held on May 3.

Apart from this, three students from the state could not take the exam due to confusion regarding the center address written on their tickets. The hall tickets mentioned ZPHS Shivarampally but also mentioned the location as Hayathnagar. This resulted in students going to the wrong center and authorities denying them entry.

Students who took the re-exam said the questions were more difficult than the May NEET exam, which was canceled due to paper leak. While medical and BDS aspirants found it difficult to answer physics and chemistry questions, the biology section was easy.

Sharing her experience, NEET aspirant Anuradha, who attended Veeranari Chakali Ilamma Women’s University, said that physics questions are difficult to answer as they require a lot of calculations and take time.

“It was also difficult to answer the chemistry questions. Although the biology questions were easy, I am worried about the scores of the physics and chemistry departments,” he said.

Agreeing with Anuradha, another candidate, Md Faizaan said the paper contained various statement-based and comparative questions. “Chemistry was intermediate but physics was tough,” he said.

Asha, another aspirant, felt that physics was harder than the previous attempt, while biology questions were based on NCERT textbooks.

According to subject experts, biology was the easiest of the three departments and students could get full marks from it.

Sai Lakshmi from a teaching academy claimed that a zoology question was ambiguous. He said that chemistry has around nine difficult questions and the remaining questions are application based.

“Physics was long and time-consuming, making it difficult for students to complete the chapter within the allotted time. It is too early to predict the cut-off marks, but most questions were based on Ncert,” the expert said.