NEET PG 2020 slightly tougher than last year, say medical aspirants
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:06.01.2020
A section of candidates from Chennai who attended NEET Postgraduate on Sunday found the paper to be slightly tougher compared to previous years.
Medical aspirants to whom TOI spoke opined that the test to be moderately difficult as it had more clinical/ case-based questions than anticipated.
The test was conducted at 16 centres in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. Admission to Master of Surgery (MS), Doctor of Medicine (MD) and other PG medical courses will be based on the test scores.
The test had 300 questions (divided into three sections), each carrying four marks. Of this, around 120 were clinicalbased questions that need more time to answer. Around 40 other questions were either image-based or direct choicebased questions, said candidates.
“Responses from our students suggest that the paper was moderately difficult and those who prepared well had no issues in completing on time,” said K Vinayak Senthil from SPEED institute, which trains NEET PG students. Some found questions based on recent updates to be a little bit tougher and time-consuming, he added.
Sakthivel, a candidate from Anna Nagar said, “Wuestions from obstetrics & gynaecology (O&G), surgery and ophthalmology were more difficult and that many hadn’t appeared in previous years’ question papers.” Basic science questions (anatomy, physiology, biochemistry pathology and microbiology) were easy, helping them focus more on tougher questions, he added.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:06.01.2020
A section of candidates from Chennai who attended NEET Postgraduate on Sunday found the paper to be slightly tougher compared to previous years.
Medical aspirants to whom TOI spoke opined that the test to be moderately difficult as it had more clinical/ case-based questions than anticipated.
The test was conducted at 16 centres in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. Admission to Master of Surgery (MS), Doctor of Medicine (MD) and other PG medical courses will be based on the test scores.
The test had 300 questions (divided into three sections), each carrying four marks. Of this, around 120 were clinicalbased questions that need more time to answer. Around 40 other questions were either image-based or direct choicebased questions, said candidates.
“Responses from our students suggest that the paper was moderately difficult and those who prepared well had no issues in completing on time,” said K Vinayak Senthil from SPEED institute, which trains NEET PG students. Some found questions based on recent updates to be a little bit tougher and time-consuming, he added.
Sakthivel, a candidate from Anna Nagar said, “Wuestions from obstetrics & gynaecology (O&G), surgery and ophthalmology were more difficult and that many hadn’t appeared in previous years’ question papers.” Basic science questions (anatomy, physiology, biochemistry pathology and microbiology) were easy, helping them focus more on tougher questions, he added.
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