Govt launches on-site NEET coaching camps
3K Students To Undergo Month-Long Training
TIMES NEWS NETWORK 10.04.2018
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government on Monday launched month-long residential camps across the state to help government school students crack NEET, the common entrance test for admission to undergraduate medical courses.
An estimated 3,000 students will undergo the training at nine colleges.
School education secretary Pradeep Yadav launched the camp at the Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology campus where 400 students from 12 different districts had assembled and will undergo training.
Among the nine centres, three will have tutors to instruct students in English; the six others will coach the students in Tamil.
Allen Career Institute from Kota and Chaitanya Coaching Centre will carry out the training at three centres while another 128 teachers from government schools have been given training in Bengaluru by Chaitanya to coach other students. Students will also be able to access VSAT sessions by Speed Coaching Institute.
Yadav said students were chosen on the basis of their scores in Class X.
“The concept of residential coaching was brought in because we felt students could focus on their studies without any distractions and gain access to all the required facilities. In addition, information sharing between peers is likely to take place when they are together,” Yadav said.
“The level of training at these camps is [on the same level as] at any private coaching centre. Since the test is relatively new to everyone, every student has an equal shot at cracking it,” the school education secretary said.
He said 8,223 students enrolled for NEET coaching in government training centres, including in residential camps, in the state, and enquiries continue to come in.
More schoolgirls have enrolled in both the residential and non-residential centres than schoolboys: 5,850 girls and 2,383 boys are now part of the programme.
In Chennai district, 154 students enrolled for the training. Virudhunagar, Salem and Tiruvallur had the most enrolments and Nagapattinam the least.
3K Students To Undergo Month-Long Training
TIMES NEWS NETWORK 10.04.2018
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government on Monday launched month-long residential camps across the state to help government school students crack NEET, the common entrance test for admission to undergraduate medical courses.
An estimated 3,000 students will undergo the training at nine colleges.
School education secretary Pradeep Yadav launched the camp at the Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology campus where 400 students from 12 different districts had assembled and will undergo training.
Among the nine centres, three will have tutors to instruct students in English; the six others will coach the students in Tamil.
Allen Career Institute from Kota and Chaitanya Coaching Centre will carry out the training at three centres while another 128 teachers from government schools have been given training in Bengaluru by Chaitanya to coach other students. Students will also be able to access VSAT sessions by Speed Coaching Institute.
Yadav said students were chosen on the basis of their scores in Class X.
“The concept of residential coaching was brought in because we felt students could focus on their studies without any distractions and gain access to all the required facilities. In addition, information sharing between peers is likely to take place when they are together,” Yadav said.
“The level of training at these camps is [on the same level as] at any private coaching centre. Since the test is relatively new to everyone, every student has an equal shot at cracking it,” the school education secretary said.
He said 8,223 students enrolled for NEET coaching in government training centres, including in residential camps, in the state, and enquiries continue to come in.
More schoolgirls have enrolled in both the residential and non-residential centres than schoolboys: 5,850 girls and 2,383 boys are now part of the programme.
In Chennai district, 154 students enrolled for the training. Virudhunagar, Salem and Tiruvallur had the most enrolments and Nagapattinam the least.
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