NEET

Question 1

National Eligibility and Entrance Test or NEET is the one examination which would be considered for filling about 54,000 medical seats across the country. As per the Supreme Court’s order in 2016, NEET would be the only examination to fill the All India Quota Seats as well as the State Level Quota seats across the country. This examination is also valid for applying to private colleges across the country.
Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will be conducting National Eligibility cum Entrance Test.

Answer 1

In 2016, Supreme Court ordered all medical colleges, including deemed institutions, to take admissions on the basis of NEET. With this decisions, institutions like AIIMS were no more permitted to conduct private entrance tests.

** But facing opposition from the states, the Centre gave state-run institutions a one-time exemption from the test in 2016.*

Question 2

Problems :
1. Since the syllabus of NEET is covered by CBSE but not by other state boards, This move could favour students from central syllabi like CBSE and ICSE, which cover the NEET syllabus, while state boards lag behind.

Answer 2

2. The order had come out less than a month before the students would be appearing for the entrance exam. By bringing all colleges under one NEET, experts fear that it will affect the students as they earlier could fare well in one while scoring low in the other.

Question 3

3. Putting all the eggs in one basket is not a good idea. single entrance exam for medical would not give quality results. There should be more than one exam because it depends a lot on which board you are coming from.

Answer 3

4. NEET has the capacity to fuel The culture of coaching class and economic privilege. This class culture that favours the economically privileged student communities or those living in urban areas.
5. A centralised exam keeps the state government out of the admission process. Also, the state reservation rules will not apply. That means, for instance, that reserved category candidates in Tamil Nadu would not benefit from the state’s 69% reservation rule. The Centre allows only 49.5% quotas.

Question 4

5. It fosters confusion about the state syllabus as the student is required to write the entrance exam, which is based on central board syllabus.
6. NEET becomes the overriding determinant in the process of selecting the students for medical colleges, without considering their scores of Class 11 and Class 12.

Answer 4

Benefits of NEET :

1. The MCI is of the opinion that NEET would avoid multiple entrance tests and minimise corruption and irregularities in admissions to medical courses