Huge turnout for Neet in Tamil Nadu
DECCAN CHRONICLE. |
PublishedMay 6, 2019, 1:47 am IST
The results of Neet-2019 will be released on June 5.
DECCAN CHRONICLE. |
PublishedMay 6, 2019, 1:47 am IST
The results of Neet-2019 will be released on June 5.
Candidates wait outside an examination centre to appear in the National Eligibility-Cum-Entrance Test (Neet) 2019 exams in Chennai, on Sunday. (Photo: DC)
Chennai: A total of 1, 34, 711 medical education aspirants took the Neet from 188 centres in 14 cities across Tamil Nadu, along with their nationwide batchmates on Sunday.
The questions were by and large manageable, most students told the media persons at various centres, while some said they wished they had trained a bit more in ‘time-management’ as that would have helped them clear the paper in the stipulated three hours.
The results of Neet-2019 will be released on June 5. Most candidates arrived at the exam centres even around ten in the morning — bringing the parents along mostly— just to be on the safe side of the clock in handling the identification formalities and go through the stringent screening at the entrances.
The exams were held during 2-5 pm in all the centres across the country.
The National Testing Agency (NTA) has been given the task of holding the NEET for the first time—in offline, pen-paper, mode.
Cyclone Fani has forced the National Testing Agency (NTA) to postpone Neet in Odisha to a date that would be announced later.
The enrolment for Neet this year saw a significant 14.4 per cent jump over the last year’s 13.26 lakh, which means a record 15.19 lakh candidates had enrolled this time.
Interestingly, Tamil Nadu came third after Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh in the number of candidates registering for NEET, notwithstanding all that anti-NEET political rhetoric that deflected attention from serious preparation for many candidates, particularly from rural areas, who were hoping for a miracle in the Centre granting the TN demand for exemption from taking this all-India medical entrance test.
School education minister KS Sengottaiyan had done yeoman service to the state’s aspirants by providing special tuitions in government schools, though it must be admitted a lot more needs to be done to improve the TN students’ preparedness in taking on such national competitive examinations.
Unlike in 2018, when the candidates from Tamil Nadu had faced problems with some of the questions translated into Tamil, the questions in Tamil were flawless this time, said students who had answered their NEET in Tamil. The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court had ordered 196 grace marks to the Tamil medium candidates last year but that was struck down by the Supreme Court as many students who were nowhere near the cut-off had catapulted into the admission list because of the grace marks.
The apex court had stated at that time that with the NTA given the task of conducting NEET from 2019, a foolproof methodology has been put in place to ensure perfect translations of the questions. The court had also permitted candidates above 25 years of age to take NEET but only provisionally until the final verdict is pronounced in the matter.
Chennai: A total of 1, 34, 711 medical education aspirants took the Neet from 188 centres in 14 cities across Tamil Nadu, along with their nationwide batchmates on Sunday.
The questions were by and large manageable, most students told the media persons at various centres, while some said they wished they had trained a bit more in ‘time-management’ as that would have helped them clear the paper in the stipulated three hours.
The results of Neet-2019 will be released on June 5. Most candidates arrived at the exam centres even around ten in the morning — bringing the parents along mostly— just to be on the safe side of the clock in handling the identification formalities and go through the stringent screening at the entrances.
The exams were held during 2-5 pm in all the centres across the country.
The National Testing Agency (NTA) has been given the task of holding the NEET for the first time—in offline, pen-paper, mode.
Cyclone Fani has forced the National Testing Agency (NTA) to postpone Neet in Odisha to a date that would be announced later.
The enrolment for Neet this year saw a significant 14.4 per cent jump over the last year’s 13.26 lakh, which means a record 15.19 lakh candidates had enrolled this time.
Interestingly, Tamil Nadu came third after Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh in the number of candidates registering for NEET, notwithstanding all that anti-NEET political rhetoric that deflected attention from serious preparation for many candidates, particularly from rural areas, who were hoping for a miracle in the Centre granting the TN demand for exemption from taking this all-India medical entrance test.
School education minister KS Sengottaiyan had done yeoman service to the state’s aspirants by providing special tuitions in government schools, though it must be admitted a lot more needs to be done to improve the TN students’ preparedness in taking on such national competitive examinations.
Unlike in 2018, when the candidates from Tamil Nadu had faced problems with some of the questions translated into Tamil, the questions in Tamil were flawless this time, said students who had answered their NEET in Tamil. The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court had ordered 196 grace marks to the Tamil medium candidates last year but that was struck down by the Supreme Court as many students who were nowhere near the cut-off had catapulted into the admission list because of the grace marks.
The apex court had stated at that time that with the NTA given the task of conducting NEET from 2019, a foolproof methodology has been put in place to ensure perfect translations of the questions. The court had also permitted candidates above 25 years of age to take NEET but only provisionally until the final verdict is pronounced in the matter.
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