Even zero scorers will make the cut
Pushpa Narayan & Vinayashree J TNN
Chennai: 11.07.2018
The Madras HC order awarding 196 ‘grace marks’ to students who appeared for NEET in Tamil has in one stroke guaranteed admission for even those whose original score was zero or even minus
100. After the HC pronounced its order, 24,720 students who wrote the exam in Tamil were excited, as almost all of them will automatically qualify for MBBS/BDS admission.
Smiles, however, were off the faces of many students already given admissions, with many saying the court largesse would hit their prospects. The students awaiting the second round of counselling, under state and all-India quota, fear the order will scuttle their chance of getting a seat.
‘CBSE doesn’t have capacity to run its own examinations
’A beaming E Manikantan said, “There is some justice finally. Our son wrote the examination in Tamil and had scored 182. But he was unable to get a MBBS seat as cut-off for BC category in all colleges in the state counselling was 344. Now, with 378 marks he will get a seat in a government college.”
However, P K Jhanavi, who secured 462 in NEET and was admitted to Kilpauk Medical College and Hospital in the first round of counselling, said: “Why couldn’t they have pushed counselling until the judgment is delivered? I am ready to start classes and it would be sad if I have to give up my seat,” she said.
While officials at the CBSE said they were seeking legal opinion to go on an appeal, state selection committee secretary Dr G Selvarajan said he was awaiting instructions from the government.
The state government is unlikely to go on an appeal as the order favours those who wrote the examination in Tamil.
Educationist S S Rajagopalan demanded absolute power to state government for admission. “CBSE doesn’t have the capacity to run its own examinations and is haggled with the responsibility of conducting such a big examination without human resources. NEET should be abolished,” he said.
Career consultant Jayaprakash Gandhi said, “We have no option but to create additional seats in government colleges to accommodate larger number of students.”
S Vaidhyasubramaniam, Sastra University dean (planning and development), said it would have a cascading effect on other professional counselling, including engineering, veterinary sciences, agriculture and Indian medicine.
“Premier colleges may lose students in the top slot if the entire rank list gets altered,” he said.
Pushpa Narayan & Vinayashree J TNN
Chennai: 11.07.2018
The Madras HC order awarding 196 ‘grace marks’ to students who appeared for NEET in Tamil has in one stroke guaranteed admission for even those whose original score was zero or even minus
100. After the HC pronounced its order, 24,720 students who wrote the exam in Tamil were excited, as almost all of them will automatically qualify for MBBS/BDS admission.
Smiles, however, were off the faces of many students already given admissions, with many saying the court largesse would hit their prospects. The students awaiting the second round of counselling, under state and all-India quota, fear the order will scuttle their chance of getting a seat.
‘CBSE doesn’t have capacity to run its own examinations
’A beaming E Manikantan said, “There is some justice finally. Our son wrote the examination in Tamil and had scored 182. But he was unable to get a MBBS seat as cut-off for BC category in all colleges in the state counselling was 344. Now, with 378 marks he will get a seat in a government college.”
However, P K Jhanavi, who secured 462 in NEET and was admitted to Kilpauk Medical College and Hospital in the first round of counselling, said: “Why couldn’t they have pushed counselling until the judgment is delivered? I am ready to start classes and it would be sad if I have to give up my seat,” she said.
While officials at the CBSE said they were seeking legal opinion to go on an appeal, state selection committee secretary Dr G Selvarajan said he was awaiting instructions from the government.
The state government is unlikely to go on an appeal as the order favours those who wrote the examination in Tamil.
Educationist S S Rajagopalan demanded absolute power to state government for admission. “CBSE doesn’t have the capacity to run its own examinations and is haggled with the responsibility of conducting such a big examination without human resources. NEET should be abolished,” he said.
Career consultant Jayaprakash Gandhi said, “We have no option but to create additional seats in government colleges to accommodate larger number of students.”
S Vaidhyasubramaniam, Sastra University dean (planning and development), said it would have a cascading effect on other professional counselling, including engineering, veterinary sciences, agriculture and Indian medicine.
“Premier colleges may lose students in the top slot if the entire rank list gets altered,” he said.
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