NEET 2017 gets 23 more exam centres

23 more cities added to the list of NEET 2017 exam centres

Published on: Mar 27, 2017 Author: Shreoshe Ghosh

NEET 2017

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has announced that 23 more cities will be added to the already existing 80 cities where the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) will be held this year. The decision was taken due to the increasing number of applications for NEET 2017.

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Last year, 8,02,594 candidates registered for the exam while this year,11,35,104 candidates have already registered for NEET-2017.The medical entrance exam is scheduled for May 7, 2017. Four additional cities have been included namely Kolhapur, Ahmednagar, Amravati and Satara for the state of Maharashtra. Among the 103 cities where the NEET-2017 will be held the candidates can choose a city from where they want to appear for the examination in between March 24 to March 27 and . To do so, candidates can log on to the official NEET website (http://cbseneet.nic.in).

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NEET 2017 will be held in 10 languages - Hindi, English, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Odia and Kannada, for admission to MBBS/ BDS courses in Medical Council of India (MCI)/ Dental Council of India approved medical/dental colleges.

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About Shreoshe Ghosh

Shreoshe has been into content writing for more than a year now. An animal lover since childhood, you can find her watching movies or playing with her pet cat, when she's not writing. She is also enthusiastic about cooking and enjoys trying her hand at new recipes often. She wishes to travel around the world someday and work for animal welfare.