NEET-2019 Age Criteria Relaxed. Application Date Extended
2018-12-01In view of the Hon’ble Supreme Court’s Order in SLP (C) No(s). 14320/2018 and in other connected matters, dated 29th November, 2018, candidates who are 25 years of age and above shall be entitled to apply and appear in the NEET (UG)-2019 examination provisionally subject to final outcome of these matter.
Earlier, NTA had specified an upper age limit of 25 years for General Category candidates and a further relaxation of 5 years for Reserved Category candidates.
As per the latest notification, the upper age cap has been removed until the final judgement is delivered by the court. Thus, any candidate who was born on or before 31.12.2002 may now apply to appear for NEET 2019.
Last Date to apply revised:
Accordingly, the last date for filling up online application form has been extended by one week i.e. from 30.11.2018 to 07.12.2018
Fee payment date extended from 01.12.2018 to 08.12.2018 (through Credit/Debit Card/Net-Banking/UPI upto 11:50 p.m. of 08.12.2018 and through e-challan (SBI) upto bank hours of 08.12.2018)