Karnataka CBSE Medial Council of India BDS Toppers By Iff ath Fatima & Abhinaya MohanThe much-awaited results of National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (undergraduate) for 2018 have been announced. The test which decides the future of medical aspirants from all over the country, had 85,288 students appearing from. Of these, only 54,163 students qualified and will be eligible to take up MBBS courses.Theconducted the exams and declared the results based on the eligibility criteria provided by the(MCI). The results were expected on June 5, but surprisingly were declared a day in advance.This year, the cut-off for the admissions into MBBS andcourses in medical colleges is lower than last year’s cut-off. For unreserved category students, the cut-off is 119, and the qualifying scores range from 119 to 691 (out of total of 720.) For SC, ST and OBC candidates, the cut-off is 96, and ranges up to 118. For candidates with disabilities in the general category, the cut-off is 107-118. For candidates with disabilities in the SC, ST and OBC categories, the cut-off is 96-106.In 2017, the cut-off – or the qualifying score as per the qualification percentile – was 131 out of 720 for the unreserved category candidates. For the OBC and SC/ST category, the cut-off was 107. For candidates with disabilities, the cut-off was 118.<doc-sep>The NEET CBSE 2018 results can be accessed on cbseneet.nic.in and cbseresults.nic.in. The results of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to medical programmes in private and government medical colleges, except the AIIMS and JIPMER, Puducherry, were declared by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Monday. The cut-off percentile – a method of knowing what percentage a candidate has done better than -- for the general category is 50. For the OBC, SC and ST candidates, it is 40. As for the cut-off scores, for the general category it is 691-119, and for the OBCs, SCs and STs, it is 118-96. A total of 6,34,897 general category candidates are above the cut-off percentile. The numbers for the OBCs, SCs and STs are 54,653; 17,209 and 7446 respectively. Kalpana Kumari is the all-India topper, with a score of 691 out of 720. She has scored 171 out of 180 in physics, 160 out of 180 in chemistry and 360 out of 360 in biology (botany and zoology). The over 13 lakh candidates can check their results at cbseresults.nic.in and cbseneet.nic.in. They can also check their scores at www.mcc.nic.in and www.mohfw.nic.in.<doc-sep>(With inputs from Agencies) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the announcement of results of the All-India NEET exam, set to be declared later today.The top court was listening to a plea filed by the Central Board of Secondary Education ( CBSE ) challenging the stay on declaration of results of NEET 2018, a national level entrance examination conducted for undergraduate medical and dental courses.On May 24, the Madras high court had granted an interim stay on publication of the results. Hearing a batch of petitions filed by some students, justice M V Muralidharan of the court's Madurai bench had also directed the Medical Council of India, the director of the CBSE and the Union health ministry to file their counter-affidavits by June 7.The petitioners had alleged that a uniform question paper was not given and there was a vast difference between the one in English and Tamil.They had demanded that the NEET be cancelled and a fresh examination with a uniform question paper be conducted. They had claimed that different sets of question paper had been used at various places, though a common syllabus had been announced.In its counter-affidavit, CBSE had rejected the contention that question papers in vernacular languages such as Gujarati were easier compared to English.Earlier in the day, the CBSE said results of the NEET UG exam will be announced on June 4, 2018. All aspirants looking forward to their results can check it on the official website of CBSE - cbseneet.nic.in. The results are set to be hosted on the official sites of NEET UG and CBSE.Over 11 lakh MBBS and BDS aspirants had appeared for the NEET at more than 1,900 centres across the country on 7 May.<doc-sep>
By Express News Service BENGALURU: The results of National Entrance cum Eligibility Test (NEET) 2018 for admission to undergraduate medical and dental courses were announced on Monday. Several students from the state have made it to the top 500 at the all-India level. From Karnataka, more than 63% of candidates who appeared for the exam have qualified to fill the medical and dental seats for the academic year 2018-19. Out of the 94,808 candidates who had registered for NEET 2018, 85,288 appeared for it and 54,163 have qualified. Across the country, a little more than 58% of candidates who appeared for the exams have qualified. Out of the 13,26,725 candidates who had registered for the exam from across the nation, 12,69,922 appeared for it and 7,14,562 have qualified. The exam was held on May 6. Shridhar Doddamani of Excellent PU college from Vijayapura has bagged All India Rank of 105 and is the state topper. However, a separate rank list for the state will be released on Wednesday where the state-wise ranks will be available from the state department of medical education. Akshatha Kamath Ammembal from Expert PU College, Mangaluru, has secured All India rank of 107, and is the second-highest rank holder of the state.At national level, Kalpana Kumari from Bihar has topped the country followed by Rohan Purohit from Telangana, Himanshu Sharma and Aarosh Dhamija from Delhi and Prince Choudary from Rajastan with second, third, fourth and fifth ranks respectively. During NEET 2018, over 818 candidates took the exams in Kannada language, which is 02.06% of the total number of candidates registered for the test. Majority of candidates - 79.96% - had registered in English language.