NEET UG: Students in Karnataka find physics difficult than other subjects

Students undergoing security procedures at an examination centre in Bengaluru on Sunday.
| Photo Credit:  K. BHAGYA PRAKASH

More than 1 lakh students appeared for the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) across 381 centres in Karnataka. The exams, conducted every year by the National Testing Agency (NTA), provide eligibility to secure admission to undergraduate medical and dental courses.

The students in Bengaluru said that while the exams went smoothly and all the questions that appeared were part of the syllabus, physics was tougher compared to the other subjects.

Ayaan Joseph, who had taken a gap year to study for NEET, said that the exam was tougher than he anticipated.

“Unlike last year, there were very few questions this time where you could just know the answer at a glance. There were fewer theory-based questions. Usually, biology has a lot of theory-based questions, but this time most questions were not like that,” Ayaan said.

He said that while chemistry was easy to medium in difficulty level, physics was very tough. “A lot of time had to be spent in reading the questions in physics,” he said.

The exams were conducted from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., and parents and students had gathered near the examination centres from noon. “I had referred to a lot of mock question papers and taken advice from my seniors who had previously written these examinations. That helped with my attempt, but I found physics to be the most difficult, followed by chemistry and biology,” said a student who wrote her examination at Nagarjuna Vidyaniketan school.