8.5% Students Skip NEET Retest; 3 Miss Exam Over Address Confusion
Medicine and BDS aspirants found the physics and chemistry questions tough to answer, while the biology section was easy.
Hyderabad: Eighty-nine per cent of the total 73,059 registered students appeared for the NEET-UG retest. The attendance for the retest was 8.55 per cent lower than the NEET-UG exam conducted on May 3.
Out of this, three students from the state missed their examination due to confusion over the centre address printed on their hall tickets. The hall tickets mentioned ZPHS Shivarampally but also mentioned the location as Hayathnagar. This led students to travel to the wrong centre where the officials denied them entry.
The students, who appeared for the re-test, said the questions turned out to be tougher than the May NEET, which got cancelled due to the paper leak. Medicine and BDS aspirants found the physics and chemistry questions tough to answer, while the biology section was easy.
Sharing her experience, Anuradha, a NEET aspirant who appeared for at Veeranari Chakali Ilamma Women's University, said physics questions were tough to answer as they required a lot of calculations and were time-consuming.
“Chemistry questions were also difficult to answer. Though biology questions were easy, I am worried about scores in physics and chemistry sections,” she said.
Concurring with Anuradha, another aspirant, Md Faizaan said the paper contained several statement-based and comparative questions. “Chemistry was moderate, but physics was difficult,” he said.
Asha, another aspirant, felt that physics was tougher than in the previous attempt, while biology questions were based on NCERT textbooks.
According to subject experts, biology was the easiest among the three sections, and students could score full marks here.
Sai Lakshmi of a training academy claimed that one zoology question was ambiguous. While chemistry had around nine difficult questions, and the rest of the questions were also application-based, she said.
“Physics was lengthy and time-consuming, making it challenging for students to complete the section within the allotted time. It is too early to predict the cut-off marks, but most questions were based on Ncert,” the expert said.