Entrance exam for admissions to nursing & midwifery course, too

“An entrance exam will ensure that the candidates selected are the best among the lot, as it happens in other courses where admissions are done via entrance exams,” said a senior official of the medical education department.

Instead of merit, an entrance exam will pave way for admissions to the general nursing and midwifery (GNM) course offered by private colleges in the state from the 2025-26 academic session. Orders regarding the same were recently issued by the medical education department.

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In Uttar Pradesh, as many as 386 colleges, with 17,845 seats, offer the GNM course. The merit system included high school and intermediate marksheets for assessment of a candidate, which will not be the case anymore.

Attempt to get a centralised entrance system in place for admissions to the course was made before the current academic session began. However, the same could not be materialised due to opposition from the management of private nursing and para-medical colleges, who argued that admissions to government institutes was done through the merit-based system.

“An entrance exam will ensure that the candidates selected are the best among the lot, as it happens in other courses where admissions are done via entrance exams,” said a senior official of the medical education department.

For the upcoming session, orders have been issued and now an exam schedule will be announced. A state-run medical institute will be given the task of conducting the entrance exam and online counselling will be done for seat/college selection.