Physics paper tough, say aspirants

NEET UG held at 5,453 centres in India, including 103 in city; security arrangements tight

- S. LALITHA @ New Delhi

IT was sheer relief for 20.8 lakh students and their families on Sunday after the decider to get selected for medical undergraduate courses concluded. Anxious parents stood patiently outside tightly guarded NEET-UG exam centres for over three hours until their children stepped out after 5 pm.

The exam, comprising 180 questions, 45 each in Chemistry, Physics, Botany, and Zoology, is assessed for 720 marks, with four marks per correct answer. A negative marking of one is given for every wrong response. A total of 480 students attended the exam at Kendriya Vidyalaya-4 in Delhi's Cantonment area. This newspaper caught up with a few candidates after their exam. A recurring response was that the Physics paper completely caught them off guard, as the questions were quite tough and a minute was just not enough.