Glitches, hacking mar regn for common medical PG entrance test

The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test for postgraduate (NEET-PG) courses, applicable for admission to 20,000 PG medical seats in 350 medical colleges, is being held between November 23 and December 6 this year.

The rush witnessed on the first day of opening of online registration brought about technical glitches as candidates of NEET complained of not being able to log on to the website while experts fended off 120 hacking attempts at the website.

While candidates complained of the website 'crashing' for a few hours during registration yesterday, NBE officials claimed there was no such thing and said there were attempts of hacking. They also attributed the sudden rush to panic created by coaching centres.

"Some users may have experienced problem as candidates across the country tried to login at the same time.... There were also 120 attempts to hack the website and we had to activate many fireballs," NBE director Bipin Batra told PTI.

Denying any website crash, Prometric, appointed by NBE to conduct the computer-based NEET-PG, said problems faced by students may have been due to heavy rush.

More tham 54,000 medicos had registered till 5 PM today after the registration process started on Thursday.

The registration and scheduling for the exam will remain open until November 12, while voucher sales are available from October 4