Dates Of UGC-NET Dec 2018, JEE Main I, JEE MAIN II, CMAT & GPAT, NEET (UG) Released

The government has announced the dates for JEE Main I, JEE Main II, CMAT and GPAT, NEET (UG), and UGC (NET). These exams are conducted to select candidates for the country’s top medical and engineering colleges.

The JEE Main I, JEE Main II, CMAT and GPAT, NEET (UG), and UGC (NET) will be conducted by the NTA (National Test Agency). The dates have been announced by the human resources development ministry.

The JEE Main 2019 will be first held in the month of January in 8 sittings from 6th till 20th January, 2019. The second JEE Main exam will be held in the month of April from 7th till 21st April, 2019. It will also be conducted in 8 sittings.

NOTE: The change in NEET exam pattern (as against the statement released on 7th July, 2018), which will now be a single exam in pen-and-paper mode and in the same number of languages as been conducted last year. 

Here is the calender for NEET, JEE Main 2019 dates released:

The National Testing Agency (NTA) is Centre’s one-point agency for conducting all entrance examinations. The National Testing Agency will conduct the National Eligibility Test once a year in December, said Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar.

Minister of State for Human Resource Development (HRD) Upendra Kushwaha had informed the Lok Sabha last year that the NEET and JEE (MAINS) might be conducted twice a year. “The exams will be conducted online at least twice a year, thereby giving an adequate opportunity to the candidates to bring out their best,” Kushwaha had said.

The NTA was approved by Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in November 2017. The NTA would work as an autonomous and self-sustained premier testing organisation to conduct entrance examinations for higher educational institutions. The NTA would initially conduct those entrance examinations which are currently being conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). Both JEE (MAINS) and NEET are conducted by the CBSE.