The board has also set up 172 facilitation centres, including one in Riyad, Saudi Arabia, from where aspirants may take the assistance of for submission of application form free of cost during working hours.
The dates for submission of online application forms without late fee starts on December 26, 2011 and will continue till January 25, 2012.
After submission is done, aspirants are expected to send the confirmation page to the CBSE for the completion of the registration process.
Guidelines for submitting online application form of AIPMT, requires payment of fee and computer generated printout to be sent to CBSE are available on the website. The last date of receipt of confirmation page in CBSE for the applications submitted without late fee is February 2, 2012.
Students can also apply online beyond January 25, 2012, but with late fee of Rs 500 and beyond February 8, 2012 by paying a late fee of Rs 1,000. Submission of online application forms with late fee of Rs 1,000 end on February 24, 2012 and the last date of receipt of confirmation page in CBSE for the applications submitted with late fee of Rs1,000 is March 2, 2012.
Aspirants must complete the age of 17 years at the time of admission or will complete the age on or before December 31 of the year of his/her admission to the first year MBBS/ BDS course and is an Indian national. The upper age limit for the AIPMT exam is 25 years as on December 31 of the year of the entrance examination. Upper age limit shall be relaxed by a period of five years for the candidates of scheduled castes/ scheduled tribes/ other backward classes.
General category candidates must have passed in the subjects of physics, chemistry, biology/ biotechnology and English individually and must have obtained a minimum of 50% marks taken together in physics, chemistry and biology/ biotechnology at the qualifying examination. Those who are appearing class XII board examinations in 2012 can also appear for the entrance test provisionally subject to their fulfilling the conditions later.