S. Vishnu Sharma
NORCET 2020 exam will now be conducted on 8 September instead of its earlier planned 1 September.
The exam is held to select candidates for recruiting them as Nursing Officers, Store keepers (drugs) and Store keepers (General) in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) establishments located across the country.
NORCET 2020
NORCET is expanded to Nursing Officer Recruitment Common Eligibility Test.
Sources from AIIMS said reason behind postponement of NORCET 2020 is to ensure the applicants are allotted exam centres as per their choice.
Since the date of NORCET 2020 has been postponed, even the halltickets for the exam will now be issued on a different date.
Date and time for download of hall-tickets (admit cards) will be announced on the official website of AIIMS ‘www.aiimsexams.org’ Candidates can visit the website at the appropriate time and download hall-tickets for NORCET 2020.
The usual trend is to make the link for downloading hall-tickets of the exam available about 10 to 15 days before the commencement of the exam.
Taking that into account hall-tickets for NORCET 2020 could be available for download in next couple of days.
Candidates can keep track of the situation by visiting the official website of the exam regularly to see if the link for downloading hall-tickets is made available or not.
Similarly, candidates can keep track of their email or mobile phone numbers which they provided while filling the application form for NORCET 2020.
Applicants are likely to receive update on downloading hall-tickets for the exam on their mobile phones or email IDs.
As for downloading the hall-ticket, applicants can visit the website click the appropriate link for downloading the hall-ticket and provide details like their application number, date of birth, exam registration number and download the hall-ticket and take a printout of it.
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Candidates for NORCET 2020 must check the hall-ticket displayed on the computer screen for any errors before going for download and subsequently obtaining a printout of the same.
The errors to be checked are related to the candidate’s name, residential address, name and address of exam centre, photograph and signature of the candidate.
In case of presence of errors in the above mentioned details, applicants must take it to the notice of the authorities concerned at once for rectification in time.
If no errors, applicants can download and take a printout of the same. It can be recollected that AIIMS released the notification for NORCET 2020 on 5 August.
The date for application submission began on 5 August and last date to submit applications for NORCET 2020 was 18 August.
The exam was supposed to be held on 1 September as per earlier decided schedule.
Now NORCET 2020 exam will be conducted on 8 September. NORCET was being conducted to recruit for vacancies at AIIMS New Delhi, AIIMS Bhubaneswar, AIIMS Deogarh, AIIMS Gorakhpur, AIIMS Jodhpur, AIIMS Kalyani.
NORCET 2020 was also meant to recruit for vacancies at AIIMS Mangalagiri, AIIMS Nagpur, AIIMS Patna, AIIMS Rae Bareli, AIIMS Raipur and AIIMS Rishikesh.
The number of vacancies for the recruitment at the above mentioned centres are AIIMS New Delhi (597 posts), AIIMS Bhubaneswar (600 posts), AIIMS Deogarh (150 posts), AIIMS Gorakhpur (100 posts), AIIMS Jodhpur (176 posts), AIIMS Kalyani (600 posts).
AIIMS Mangalagiri has 140 posts, AIIMS Nagpur has 100 posts, AIIMS Patna 200 posts, AIIMS Rae Bareli 594 posts, AIIMS Raipur 246 posts and AIIMS Rishikesh has 300 posts.
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Candidates who wished to apply for NORCET 2020 had to be a BSc (Hons) or BSc in Nursing from an educational institution recognised by Indian Nursing Council or respective state Nursing Councils.
Even those who have BSc (post-certificate) and Post Basic BSc in Nursing from a recognized educational institution also could apply.
The age of the applicant must be 18 to 30 years. The selection process for the applicants of NORCET 2020 is to attend a written test which is of three hours duration.
Post the pass in the written test, candidates have to attend an interview or verification
The selection during the interview will happen based on merit and the score obtained in the written test and availability of vacancies.
Certificates submitted by candidates will also be verified and they are requested to ensure they are submitting certificates with no errors and also are meeting the eligibility criteria.
The written test for NORCET 2020 will have 300 multiple choice questions for a total of 200 marks. The written test also has negative marking where each wrong answer will lead to deduction of 1/3 marks.
The qualifying marks in Recruitment Examination will be 50% for UR/EWS, 45% for OBC and 40% for SC & ST. The NORCET 2020 notification regarding exam postponement can be accessed at ‘https://www.aiimsexams.org/pdf/Notice%20Postponed%2028.08.20.pdf’