National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) is the only entrance exam for undergraduate medical courses in India. So, if you want to get into a medical college you will have to appear for it. Every year hundreds of thousands of students appear for this test and it's quite difficult to crack but this year it got even tougher for the students. There have been allegations of paper leak, unfair marking and grace marks being awarded without consideration. It has led to an uproar across India and the agency conducting the test is under fire.
So what is this fiasco about and what will happen to the 2.4 million students who appeared for this exam in 2024?
May 5th was an important day for 2.4million students. It was the day of the NEET, the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for aspiring medical students in the country. This is the be all and end all. This is the test they must crack if they want to become a doctor. Now the pattern of the test is quite simple. There are 200 MCQS, that's multiple choice questions. Candidates need to answer 180 of them, the total marks for the entire test is 720, so that is the highest score you can get. Correct answers get you four marks if an answer is wrong a mark is deducted, unanswered questions don't impact but if one chooses multiple answers marks are deducted, which brings us to controversy.
67 students got the perfect score that's 720 marks out of these eight students were from the same exam centre, few of them even got marks like 718 or 719 so questions were raised over that as well plus there were allegations of a Paper leak. In Rajasthan students were apparently given the paper with pre-marked answers but that's not all, then there was the issue of grace marks. It was awarded to 1563 students; this was for the loss of time due to multiple reasons. This became another point of contention; the controversy grew so big that the matter reached the Supreme Court. Students filed petitions against the NTA that's the national testing agency. It's the body that conducts this exam. They sought the cancellation of the exam on grounds of question paper leaks and other malpractices. The top Court heard the matter. It has led to the scrapping of the grace marks awarded by the NTA. The court said the process was wrong and it now leaves the 1563 students with two choices they can either retake the test or forgo the compensatory Grace marks they got and get a new ranking but the entire controversy has raised a few questions?
This is one of the biggest medical exams in the country. It's an exam that determines the fate of millions, so why can't the process be more transparent? Many questioned why the exam can't be held online like other engineering exams in India? Technology could lead to more transparency in the process. Either way this controversy has raised questions over the integrity of the NEET and it’s unlikely to die down.
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