15% of candidates fail to turn up for NEET in Madurai
MADURAI, MAY 06, 2019 00:00 IST
A harried lot:Students waiting outside a college, a NEET exam centre, on New Natham Road on Sunday.G. Moorthy
A majority of the candidates did not find the examination tough
Nearly 15% of the candidateswho had registered for attending National Eligibility-cum Entrance Test (NEET) in the centres in Madurai district failed to turn up for the examination on Sunday.
According to the data provided by the district administration, of the 18,060 students registered to participate in the 35 examination centres across the district, 15,419 students took part. The tension witnessed during last year’s examination, mainly with the frisking of students, was largely absent this year since students and parents seemed to be better aware of the process. Small enclosures were set up at the examination centres for frisking girl students.
Students, accompanied by their parents and relatives, had come not only from Madurai, but a number of districts surrounding Madurai to attend the examination.
Many parents opined that the scheduling of examination for the afternoon proved quite helpful for commuting. S. Thangaraj from a village near Dindigul, who had brought his daughter for the examination at the centre, Kendriya Vidyalaya 1 school in Narimedu, said they could comfortably leave early in the morning and reach Madurai.
“If the examination was in the morning, we should have reached the city last night and stayed somewhere. That would have been difficult since this was only the third time I am coming to Madurai,” he said.
A majority of the students The Hindu spoke to did not find the exam to be particularly tough, except for a few students who said Physics questions took more time to answer. T. Haritha, a student, said that while she managed to complete the Biology section quickly, the Physics and Chemistry sections took more time.
A number of centres, particularly the one at E.M.G. Yadava Women’s College where around 1,200 students sat for the examination, witnessed traffic congestion for a brief period before and after the examination owing to the presence of a large number of students and parents on the road. Parents and relatives of students were seen waiting under a hot sun outside the examination centres for more than four hours.
Facilitation centres
Facilitation centres were set up by the police, Madurai Corporation and district administration at Mattuthavani and Arapalayam bus stands, and the Madurai railway junction to help students and parents coming from other places in reaching the examination centre.
A senior official from the Corporation’s education department said that several young students arrived through the day until an hour before the start of the exam.
“We voluntarily approached the students and helped them navigate to their centres by examining their hall tickets. Unlike last year, where students experienced panic after arriving at the wrong centre, this year it was better,” she said.
The centres also handed out pamphlets for NEET coaching organised by the Tamil Nadu government.
MADURAI, MAY 06, 2019 00:00 IST
A harried lot:Students waiting outside a college, a NEET exam centre, on New Natham Road on Sunday.G. Moorthy
A majority of the candidates did not find the examination tough
Nearly 15% of the candidateswho had registered for attending National Eligibility-cum Entrance Test (NEET) in the centres in Madurai district failed to turn up for the examination on Sunday.
According to the data provided by the district administration, of the 18,060 students registered to participate in the 35 examination centres across the district, 15,419 students took part. The tension witnessed during last year’s examination, mainly with the frisking of students, was largely absent this year since students and parents seemed to be better aware of the process. Small enclosures were set up at the examination centres for frisking girl students.
Students, accompanied by their parents and relatives, had come not only from Madurai, but a number of districts surrounding Madurai to attend the examination.
Many parents opined that the scheduling of examination for the afternoon proved quite helpful for commuting. S. Thangaraj from a village near Dindigul, who had brought his daughter for the examination at the centre, Kendriya Vidyalaya 1 school in Narimedu, said they could comfortably leave early in the morning and reach Madurai.
“If the examination was in the morning, we should have reached the city last night and stayed somewhere. That would have been difficult since this was only the third time I am coming to Madurai,” he said.
A majority of the students The Hindu spoke to did not find the exam to be particularly tough, except for a few students who said Physics questions took more time to answer. T. Haritha, a student, said that while she managed to complete the Biology section quickly, the Physics and Chemistry sections took more time.
A number of centres, particularly the one at E.M.G. Yadava Women’s College where around 1,200 students sat for the examination, witnessed traffic congestion for a brief period before and after the examination owing to the presence of a large number of students and parents on the road. Parents and relatives of students were seen waiting under a hot sun outside the examination centres for more than four hours.
Facilitation centres
Facilitation centres were set up by the police, Madurai Corporation and district administration at Mattuthavani and Arapalayam bus stands, and the Madurai railway junction to help students and parents coming from other places in reaching the examination centre.
A senior official from the Corporation’s education department said that several young students arrived through the day until an hour before the start of the exam.
“We voluntarily approached the students and helped them navigate to their centres by examining their hall tickets. Unlike last year, where students experienced panic after arriving at the wrong centre, this year it was better,” she said.
The centres also handed out pamphlets for NEET coaching organised by the Tamil Nadu government.
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