JEE Main, NEET 2020: #RIPNTA trending on twitter to cancel exams

Students have been protesting against the conduct of the JEE Main, NEET 2020 exam in July. With #RIPNTA, students have raised their complaints over Twitter while asking the officials to postpone the exams.

With the rising number of coronavirus cases in the country, various state government has either cancelled their board exams or postponed the entrance exams. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has also cancelled CBSE Class 10th Board exam and made CBSE 12th Board exam optional for students. With Telangana announcing the postponement of all Common Entrance Tests in the state, the students have urged the government to cancel NEET 2020 and JEE Main 2020 exams too.

Students from across the country have come together against NEET, JEE exams with RIP-NTA. They have been posting on Twitter with #RIPNTA after the National Testing Agency (NTA) did not come up with any decision on postponement of NEET 2020 or JEE exams. 

The students who will be sitting for these entrance exams have been demanding clarification over the conduct of exams during the ongoing pandemic situation. 

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According to students when all the exams are either getting cancelled or postponed, then why are JEE and NEET not getting postponed.

Earlier, the HRD Minister clarified during a live interaction with ZEE News that as of now there is no change in the JEE Main 2020 exam dates. 

Meanwhile, parents of students of the middle east have filed a plea in the Supreme Court demanding new centers to be allotted to the students for NEET exams or to postpone the exams for the students from Doha, Qatar, Dubai, UAE, and other middle east countries.

Earlier, Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank had announced that the NEET 2020 exam dates, as per which the NEET entrance examination for students seeking admission in MBBS/BDS courses will be conducted on July 26, 2020. More than 15 lakh candidates are expected to appear for the examination. 

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