NEET-UG to shift online? Centre works on nationwide CBT infrastructure strategy

NEW DELHI: The ministry of education is developing a nationwide Computer-Based Testing (CBT) infrastructure strategy to enable the transition of NEET from its current pen-and-paper format to an online examination, officials said.While NEET has so far been conducted in pen-and-paper mode, the National Testing Agency (NTA) conducts several other examinations, including JEE-Main, Common University Entrance Test (CUET)-UG and PG, UGC-NET and CSIR UGC-NET, in computer-based mode.Once the infrastructure strategy is in place, the plan is to shift all entrance examinations to the online mode."A national examination-grade Computer-Based Testing infrastructure strategy is being formulated to close the geographic gap in test-centre availability, standardise centre-level examination-grade specifications and to permit the migration to CBT from the pen-and-paper mode examinations.