All India Medical Entrance Test that CBSE plans to conduct on 4 May, 2014 would be known as AIPMT even though the exam pattern, structure and syllabus for the exam will be the same as that of NEET UG 2013 (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test.)
NEET UG, that replaced AIPMT last year, was supposed to be a single entrance examination to get admission to almost all medical colleges in India, including private medical colleges. The main aim behind the introduction of NEET was to relieve the need of students to appear in multiple tests and promote merit in admission process.
However, many states as well as colleges did not support the idea of replacing the AIPMT with NEET.
Hence this year, the CBSE released an official notification stating that it would now conduct AIPMT 2014. AIPMT will be conducted only for the 15% national quota in government medical/dental colleges all over India except for the states of Andhra Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir.
NEET was supposed to have replaced many state level and institute level medical entrance exams. But AIPMT won't be replacing any such exams.
