From next year, engineering and medical aspirants can avail free coaching at government teaching centers for JEE entrance test for IITs and NEET entrance exam for medical studies. Apart from medical and engineering, the coaching will also be provided for UGC-NET, management and pharma entrance exams.
According to a ToI report, the government plans to convert nearly 3,000 test practice centres across the country into teaching centers, which will conduct mock tests and provide free coaching to students for prestigious higher education entrance tests.
As per the report, the practice centres will start conducting mock tests from September 8 this year, but free coaching facility is expected to begin from May next year. Students can start registration for practice centres from September 1.
"Government plans to convert these practice centres into teaching centres. They will not charge any fees and so will be especially helpful for talented students from sections where aspirations are high but private coaching is impossible due to financial constraints," ToI quoted a senior official as saying.
The move is likely to hit the private coaching institutes, who charge hefty coaching fees from students. The government wants to break the nexus of expensive private coaching institutes that deprives the students from underprivileged sections and rural and semi-rural areas.
How to enrol for Free coaching for JEE, NEET exams from next year?
- Students can register for test practice centre, the registration for which will open on September 1 on its official website: www.nta.ac.in.
- Through the centres, NTA will allow aspirants to sit for a mock test for Joint Entrance Examination – Main (JEE-Main) 2019 – to be held in January.
- Aspirants can analyse their results with NTA mentors, know their mistakes and rectify them with the help of teachers. This teaching component at the centres will be rolled out only after the first set of examinations, the dates of which have been announced by NTA recently