NEET Result 2019 Declared. The National Testing Agency (NTA) announced the NEET Result 2019 yesterday (5th June) on the official website ntaneet.nic.in. Candidates can also check mcc.nic.in and nta.ac.in for additional information. A NEET candidate from Hassan and another from Bengaluru have secured spots in the all-India top 50 rankings, helping Karnataka record its presence in the upper rungs after last year’s miss.
Two students hailed from Hassan and Bengaluru
Phaneendra DR, who hails from Hassan, and Bengaluru teen P Mahesh Anand are ranked 36th and 43rd in the country, respectively. Another Bengaluru student, Pragya Mitra, figures among top 20 girl performers. Overall, her position is 99.
Phaneendra completed class 12 from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in Pune. Anand is a student of Sri Chaitanya Techno, Marathahalli, while Pragya studied at Sri Kumaran Children’s Home, Mallasandra. The three are waiting for the results of the entrance exam of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIM), New Delhi.
Over 1 lakh students from the state appeared for NEET on May 5. The pass percentage has dipped marginally from 63.5% in 2018 to 63.2%. On a note, this exam also held on 20 May in Karnataka for hundreds of candidates who missed NEET 2019 on 5 May after the Hampi Express took a 120-kilometer longer route from North Karnataka to Bengaluru. However, the students had to reach their exam centers by 1.30 pm, but unfortunately, the train reached the station at 2.30 pm. The Indian Railways had written to the Ministry of Human Resource Development to have NTA conduct NEET 2019 for these candidates again.
