National_Entrance_Screening_Test
National Entrance Screening Test
Annual college entrance examination in India
The National Entrance Screening Test (popularly known as NEST) is an annual college entrance examination in India, conducted for admission into the National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar (NISER) and the Center for Excellence in Basic Sciences (UM-DAE CEBS), Mumbai. These two institutes use NEST as a sole criterion for admission to their undergraduate programs.
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2017 was the year in which NISER received highest applicants ( 68,544 ) and students appeared ( approx. 47000 ) for NEST exam.
Afterwards it's starts declining in 2018 - 44060 students appeared then in 2019 - 37510 ; 2020 - 21275 ; 2021 - 24328 students appeared for NEST exam ( Source: https://www.niser.ac.in/content/annual-reports , official annual reports published by NISER on its official website ) . For about approx. 100 Unreserved seats out of 202 in NISER, one can get admission upto 400-700 general rank ( cutoff vary year on year ) in NEST Exam till last round. This is due to the fact many candidates choose to prefer other career option like Engineering, Medical, Natural Science at IISc or IISERs, etc.