Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Girl from Bihar tops NEET, 1 from Tamil Nadu in top 50
Most Successful Candidates From UP, Kerala, Maha


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Chennai/Delh i05..05.2018

Tamil Nadu candidates for the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test fared better than last year (up

0.72%), but just one girl made it to the top 50 national list.

The results on Monday showed the cut-off for medical college admissions dropped to 119 (out of 720) from 131last year.

Chennai girl Keerthana K, who scored 676 out of 720, secured an all-India rank of 12. Kalpana Kumari from Bihar topped the national test, scoring 691.

NEET is a single entrance test for admissions to more than 66,000 MBBS and BDS seats across the country. This was the last NEET conducted by CBSE; from next year, the National Testing Agency will hold the exam.

As many as 7,14,298 students cleared the test this year, up from 6,11,739 in 2017. This means more than one lakh more candidates will have a chance of getting an MBBS seat this year. Uttar Pradesh has the highest number of students who qualified (76,778), followed by Kerala with 72,682 and Maharashtra with 70,184. Tamil Nadu stood sixth among 37 states and Union territories with 45,336 students getting qualified. 




Villupuram girl fails in NEET, ends life

A few hours after the NEET results were announced, an MBBS-aspirant in Villupuram district who failed to clear the exam ended her life. Reports said Pratheepa of Peruvallur had scored 1,125 marks in Class XII. Actor Rajinikanth expressed shock at the death and said everyone should come together to put an end to such incidents.

Students had alleged there were 14 errors in answer keys

There was a significant increase of 16.5 percentage points in the number of candidates who registered for the test, with a majority of the aspirants (56%) being girls.

Just as in the previous editions, this year’s exam too was dogged with controversies, be it inconsistencies in translation of the question papers in regional languages or alleged errors in answer keys and mission question papers.

The exam was conducted in 13 languages and complaints were received from many states. West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee wrote to Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar alleging “gross irregularities” in the NEET-UG 2018. She said students were not provided question papers in their language on time.

“Many were given photocopies of question papers which bore the same candidate code for multiple students, and in many cases, the photocopies of questions were illegible. It is also reported that many students were forced to write answers using English or Hindi question papers,” Banerjee said.

The Calcutta high court on May 30, 2018, asked the NEET authorities to reserve a seat for an examinee till a regular bench decides her petition challenging the error-ridden Bengali question paper. Apala Debnath had moved the HC alleging that the Bengali version of the NEET paper had 180 mistakes, though the English version had none.

Students also moved the Madras high court alleging that a uniform question paper was not given and that there was a vast difference between the one in English and Tamil. There were 14 errors in the answer keys as well, they alleged.

CBSE has provided all India rank to the candidates. Now admitting authorities will draw merit lists based on the all India rank for MBBS/BDS seats in their jurisdiction.

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