NEET easy, admission cut-off may be up 20 marks

NEET easy, admission cut-off may be up 20 marks

Physics Paper Easier Compared To Previous Years, Say Students; State Board Candidates Find Biology ‘Moderately Difficult’

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

14.09.2020

The cut-off for MBBS admissions in the state this year could go up by at least 20 marks, forecast experts, with most students finding the National Eligibilitycum-Entrance Test (NEET) easy, particularly the physics section.

On Sunday, around 80% of the 1,17,502 students registered turned out in Tamil Nadu. “The attendance was more or less like last year. The exam was incident free,” National Testing Agency officials said. Entry and exit were planned well, with social distancing maintained in most places, while there was crowding at a few places.

Chennai registered 80% attendance, while it was 82% in Trichy, 81% in Madurai and 79% in Coimbatore.

Each of the 180 questions — physics 45, chemistry 45 and biology 90 — were for 4 marks, with 1 mark deducted for negative answer.

While Sanjay Lokesh found the physics questions slightly tough compared to the others, Irene said all three sections were easy. “I was expecting tough physics questions. But, I was able to answer all questions,” she said.

While terming it easy, Vinayak V said wearing masks and gloves were not much of a problem as he had appeared for JEE (Main) exam.

CBSE students found all three sections easy, but state board students found biology questions moderate.

Manthra D, a state board student, said biology was a little tough. “Overall, the paper was moderate. It was not too difficult or too easy,” she said.

R Deepalakshmi, a government school student, said the questions in biology were a bit twisted. “Though I spent five hours inside the hall, the time went really fast.”

B Pavan Kumar, deputy director, FIITJEE (Chennai) said the cut-off could go up by 40 marks to 50 marks for general category. “The paper was easy compared to last year. Students and coaching institutes got more time to prepare,” he said.

Students found chemistry and biology easy compared to last year, he added.

Himanshu Sachdeva, senior physics teacher at Allen Career Institute, said a lot of formula-based and expected questions in physics made it easy for students. “Overall, the paper was easy to moderate. The cut-off will be slightly higher compared to previous year,” he said, adding that 4-5 questions were tricky in each subject.

Anurag Tiwari, national academic director (medical), Aakash Institute, said usually, physics questions were tough. “This year, the questions in the paper were not calculative and lengthy. The questions were straightforward,” he said. Chemistry and biology also had similarly worded questions. “Overall, the paper was easy.

Looking into the question paper and reactions, students will score high marks compared to last year. In every state, the cut-off will increase by at least 15-20 marks,” he added.

SMOOTH SAILING: Postponed by the pandemic, NEET was held across centres in the state. With stringent anti-Covid measures in place, around 80% candidates turned up to write the exam in Chennai