News NEET Will Be Deferred This Year For States, Centre Plans An Ordinance

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The Centre has decided to issue an ordinance, or an executive order, to defer the implementation of NEET or the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test - the common entrance test for medical and dental courses -- for state governments and their institutions. The deferment will be meant for this academic year.

The exam, however, will be applicable for those applying for Central government and private management institutions under the management quota.


The decision comes after state governments asked the Centre to consider the stress the students will face. On Monday, two rounds of hectic meetings were held to build consensus before taking the Ordinance route.


Last month, the Supreme Court said that students need to take only one common entrance test, the NEET, for entry to medical colleges, following a large number of complaints about corruption in a situation where all state governments and private medical colleges held their own exams.

But after the court's order, several states -- including Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu - had said the implementation of the common entrance test should be deferred by a year.


NEET Will Be Deferred This Year For States, Centre Plans An Ordinance
 
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District toppers in the two districts preferred to pursue medicine but faced the arduous task of clearing the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to MBBS and Dental courses from this academic year.

After the Supreme Court made it clear that this year’s admission to undergraduate medical and dental courses would be based on NEET, the aspiring students pinned their hopes on the new government to clear the legal hurdles and continue with the existing counselling system based on plus two marks.

When results of the plus two examinations were announced on Tuesday, the toppers, who have secured high cut-off marks for admission to MBBS course, were not elated as the task of clearing NEET loomed large.

M. Swathy, student of Syed Ammal Higher Secondary School, who emerged district topper with 1183 out of 1200 marks, stood a fair chance of securing an admission to medicine with a centum in Chemistry and Biology but was keeping her fingers crossed. “I worked hard focussing on getting good cut-off marks for medicine and never thought NEET would come in the way,” she said.

M. Nithes Kumar, student of Paramakudi Lions Matriculation Higher Secondary School, the third district topper also preferred medicine but was worried over NEET. He has scored 1,179 marks with centum in Chemistry. The government should do away with NEET at least for this year, the toppers pleaded.

“Elite students,” R. Manoj Kumar and D. Ilakkiya Ezhilarasi, the government school students who hailed from poor families and were offered special coaching by the district administration, said they could easily seek admission to MBBS course if the existing counselling method was followed. Manoj Kumar has got a cut-off mark of 199.75 and Ilakkiya 198.5 for admission to medicine.


District toppers, aspiring to pursue medicine, worry about NEET - The Hindu
 
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