The Supreme Court of
India on Thursday quashed the MCI (Medical Council Of India) notifications for
holding a common entrance exam NEET (National Eligibility Entrance Test) for
MBBS, BDS and post-graduation medical courses.
Reasons to start NEET:
The NEET system was
started to overcome the problems of students. In order to take admission into
country’s leading medical institutions and reputed colleges, students needed to
appear in around 10-15 medical entrance examinations. In second step, students called
Simran Jain to file a PIL in Supreme Court for two examinations being held on
the same day. The court asked MCI if it is possible for the whole country to
have one common entrance exam. Then in 2013 NEET was conducted which was the single
test for all medical and dental courses. NEET was first time introduced in the
year 2013 by CBSE (Central Board Of Secondary Education).
Prior to NEET, exams like,
AIIMS, BHU, AIPMT Prelims and Mains, AFMC, JIPMER and AMU were conducted at the
country level. Apart from these exams, different states and all Private Medical
Colleges of the country used to conduct their own Medical entrance examination.
In order to save money, time and reduce pressure from the shoulders of aspirants,
Indian government and MCI introduced NEET as a common Medical entrance
examination.
Let us see the Pros and Cons of NEET:
Pros:
The bottom line of NEET
is one Nation, one exam and one exam for all medical institutions.
The major point is,
there is no difference in syllabus of any of the state graduates as all candidates
will have same curriculum.
Student will write for
single exam and can apply for diverse institutes and colleges with same test
score.
Selling of medical seats
in the market can be prevented as all the seats will be filled through NEET.
NEET will save time and
money and students will get rid of multiple entrance exams. Hence it will
reduce the pressure from the shoulders of candidates.
NEET marks will also
help in taking easily admission into several Private Medical Colleges of the
country.
In AIPMT Prelims,
students needed to solve 200 questions in just 3 hours while in NEET only 180
questions are asked for the same duration of time. So, students get more time
in NEET.
Cons:
The basic and major disadvantage
of NEET is if a student misses to appear in the NEET, then he will have to wait
entire year for appearing in the exam.
Another point is to
conduct NEET only in a single session. Of course we know in such a large Nation
with about one lakh students are appearing for the examination, it’s a
Herculean task to conduct it in a single session, but it should be one of the policy of NEET that
there should be only one session where no candidate acquire any undue benefit
or loss.
Once all the slip-ups
are cleared, NEET will be the definite answer for the admissions into medical
colleges or universities all over the country to make admission process
transparent and corruption free.
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