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Stay calm, focus on revision, say experts

Stay calm, focus on revision, say experts

5 min readNew DelhiJun 17, 2026 05:27 PM IST By Jitender Ahuja Many NEET applicants are feeling a lot of emotions after the announcement of a re-exam. Frustration, fatigue from the emotional drain of preparing, fear, and anxiety from the unknown are all part of this cycle of emotions. It is natural to feel overwhelmed by these multiple factors after having been preparing for months emotionally. You have not been alone in experiencing these emotions, as almost every NEET applicant going into this re-exam is having similar feelings. The focus now switches from being an entirely new battle to utilising your existing knowledge from previous attempts. You have months of preparation, practice tests, and the actual exam itself. Therefore, all your knowledge and concepts that you have acquired during this time are still there. The purpose of the next few days is not to learn new chapters or to cover an entire curriculum. The focus is on reviewing all the important aspects of what you do have, such as key concepts, formulas, diagrams, reactions, and …

No fee hike for medical courses amid NEET retest stress, says Medical Education Minister

No fee hike for medical courses amid NEET retest stress, says Medical Education Minister

Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash Patil addresses a press conference at his residence in Kalaburagi city on April 18, 2026. File Photo | Photo Credit: ARUN KULKARNI The Karnataka government has decided not to hike the fees for medical, dental, undergraduate, and postgraduate courses for the current academic year. Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash Patil officially announced on Friday that there will be no fee hike for medical courses for the academic year 2026-27, after a meeting with representatives of private medical and dental college managements. Addressing a press conference on Friday, the Minister said, “Considering the stress and anxiety faced by medical seat aspirants and parents due to the re-examination of NEET, we have not accepted the proposal to increase fees proposed by private college managements.” “The same fees fixed last year will continue this year as well. This rule applies to both government and private medical colleges,” the Minister said, appealing to students and parents not to pay heed to speculation related to medical seats. Highest number of seats Dr. Patil further said …

Ministry, NTA officials to face Parliament panel over re-exam

Ministry, NTA officials to face Parliament panel over re-exam

Top officials of the Health and Education ministries, National Testing Agency (NTA), and National Medical Commission (NMC), will brief a parliamentary panel on Wednesday over the conduct of the NEET-UG re-examination. The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare has summoned the secretaries of Higher Education and Health, besides top officials of the NTA, and NMC, to brief the panel on the NEET re-exam. Disclaimer: We do not own any of the content, ideas, images, or text presented here. All rights belong to their respective owners. For more information and to view the original source, please visit the following link: Source link

Rahul Gandhi targets Modi government after aspirant’s death

Rahul Gandhi targets Modi government after aspirant’s death

The controversy surrounding the alleged NEET-UG paper leak has been intensifying every day. On Thursday, the Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha cited the death of a medical aspirant, Akanksha, while criticising the Centre’s handling of alleged irregularities in the entrance examination system.  Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday, while posting on his social media handle X, launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.  Disclaimer: We do not own any of the content, ideas, images, or text presented here. All rights belong to their respective owners. For more information and to view the original source, please visit the following link: Source link

NEET-UG case: Court extends Hawaldar`s CBI custody by 2 days, Mandhare remanded

NEET-UG case: Court extends Hawaldar`s CBI custody by 2 days, Mandhare remanded

A Delhi court extended the CBI custody of accused Manisha Sanjay Hawaldar by two more days and remanded another accused, Manisha Mandhare, to 14 days` judicial custody in the alleged NEET-UG 2026 paper leak case. Special Judge Ajay Gupta passed the order while hearing the CBl`s plea seeking further custodial interrogation of the accused. The agency told the court that Hawaldar, empanelled as a physics translator by the National Testing Agency (NTA), had allegedly conspired with others to unauthorisedly retain and distribute the NEET-UG question paper for monetary gains. Special Public Prosecutor V K Pathak submitted that Hawaldar`s custodial interrogation was necessary to identify other persons allegedly involved in the conspiracy and to further investigate the case. Opposing the plea, Hawaldar`s counsel argued that she had been arrested on May 22 and had cooperated with the investigation, contending there was no need for further police custody. The court, however, allowed the CBI`s request and extended her custody by two days. In the case of Mandhare, the CBI alleged that she was part of the NTA …

Rahul Gandhi demands Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation over NEET paper leak issue

Rahul Gandhi demands Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation over NEET paper leak issue

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said his party will not rest until Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigns and a foolproof system is put in place to prevent paper leaks like in NEET. He shared a video of students protesting in Hyderabad, highlighting the NEET paper leak and demanding Pradhan`s resignation. They also raised slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pradhan. “When millions of youth are on the streets, the future of 22 lakh children is at stake and the PM remains silent, then the government is not focused on responding but is busy evading,” the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha said. “Until Dharmendra Pradhan resigns and a foolproof system is established to prevent paper leaks like NEET, we will not stop,” Gandhi said in a post in Hindi on X. The Congress has been demanding that Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan step down or be sacked after the NEET-UG exam was cancelled due to paper leak. This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or …

CBI traces NEET-UG 2026 paper leak money trail; students paid lakhs

CBI traces NEET-UG 2026 paper leak money trail; students paid lakhs

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), probing the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak case, has found that the leaked question paper had allegedly reached Rajasthan through an accused identified as Yash Yadav, while students were allegedly charged between two lakh rupees and five lakh rupees for access to the paper, sources said. According to sources, Yash Yadav was acquainted with another accused, Vikas Biwal. The investigation has revealed that Vikas Biwal’s father, Dinesh Biwal, allegedly scanned the hard copy of the NEET-UG question paper and converted it into PDF files. Disclaimer: We do not own any of the content, ideas, images, or text presented here. All rights belong to their respective owners. For more information and to view the original source, please visit the following link: Source link

Medical association moves Supreme Court over NEET-UG 2026 cancellation

Medical association moves Supreme Court over NEET-UG 2026 cancellation

A medical association has moved the Supreme Court alleging “systemic failure” in the conduct of the NEET-UG 2026 exam for admissions in undergraduate medical courses and seeking reforms in the test system following the cancellation of the exam following irregularities. The NEET (UG) 2026 exam held on May 3 by the National Testing Agency (NTA) was cancelled on May 12 amid allegations of paper leak which is now being probed by the CBI. The Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA), through lawyer Tanvi Dubey, has moved the top court seeking a complete overhaul of the national testing framework, including the replacement of the NTA with a more robust and autonomous body. The plea also referred to news reports that “guess papers” circulating on encrypted platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram matched more than 100 questions from the actual exam paper. It urged the top court to direct the government to replace the NTA with a “technologically advanced and autonomous body” to restore the integrity of medical entrance exams. FAIMA also asked the court to constitute …

NEET re-exam for every student is ‘injustice’, say parents | Ahmedabad News

NEET re-exam for every student is ‘injustice’, say parents | Ahmedabad News

3 min readAhmedabadMay 13, 2026 02:59 AM IST Parents of some NEET aspirants gathered outside premier schools in Rajkot on Tuesday, hours after the government announced the cancellation of the medical entrance exam due to a ‘paper leak’, which was now being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for undergraduate (UG) medical courses, held on May 3, 2026, was cancelled by the National Testing Agency (NTA) after allegations of a paper leak on Tuesday. Hemal Mehta, a businessman whose daughter had appeared for NEET UG 2026, says re-examination of all students in the country would affect students who had not cheated. “When the paper leak happened only in some states, why are all 24 lakh students paying the price? Why is the government playing with their future? At this rate, if paper leaks are going to happen, why doesn’t the government hold three exams per year and then count the marks of the exam in which the leak didn’t take place? This is gross injustice and …

Rahul Gandhi slams NEET paper leak, says PM Modi’s ‘Amrit Kaal’ turning into ‘poison’

Rahul Gandhi slams NEET paper leak, says PM Modi’s ‘Amrit Kaal’ turning into ‘poison’

In a post on social media platform X, the Congress MP accused the BJP-led government of failing to protect the integrity of the country’s education system and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of “Amrit Kaal” had turned into a “poison era” for the country’s youth Disclaimer: We do not own any of the content, ideas, images, or text presented here. All rights belong to their respective owners. For more information and to view the original source, please visit the following link: Source link