GREEN SIGNAL
TN students come up with a better NEET show, still behind other states
48.57% Clear Exam, 135 Get Above 600, Five-Fold Jump In No. Of Students Scoring More Than 550
Ragu.Raman@timesgroup.com 06.06.2019
Tamil Nadu students have spoken. Even as politicians bicker over the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), those writing it have sent a silent message. Burying the ghosts of NEET for now, 59,785 students from the state cleared the examination this year, taking up the qualifying percentage from 39.56% to 48.57%.
Also, from just two students who got above 600 in last NEET, the number soared to 135 this year. NEET is a 720-mark exam. Likewise, the number of students scoring above between 500 and 600 went up five-fold from just 213 last year to 1,194 this year.
“Overall, 14,297 students from Tamil Nadu have scored 300 and above,” an official from National Testing Agency told TOI.
Tamil Nadu topper Shruthi K (below right) scored 685 and secured an all-India rank of 57; she is the 10th among girls. Karvanna Prabu K K, a differently-abled candidate from TN, scored 572 marks and was among top five candidates to clear NEET in the differently-abled category.
“I expected good marks, but this has surprised me. I prepared for the exam for two years. Any student with hard work and dedication can crack NEET,” said Shruti, who also wrote entrances for AIIMS and JIPMER. “My first preference is JIPMER,” she said.
Many students from state board schools have scored above 600 this year.
“In our school, two students secured more than 600 and 18 students have scored above 500,” said P Swaminathan, secretary, SRV schools in Namakkal and Trichy.
Asked about the reasons for the improved performance, Swaminathan said many state board schools hired experts from other states to train students and introduced NEET coaching for old students.
“Tamil Nadu is already competing with other states in terms of performance. This year, from our institute alone, 30 students scored above 600. Due to availability of more seats, students with above 450 marks will get into good colleges,” said Chandan Chand, deputy director, Aakash Institute, Chennai.
At 1.23 lakh, TN had the third highest applicants for NEET this year and it has the sixth highest number of students who qualified the exam.
But educationist Prince Gajendrababu said though the performance of Tamil Nadu students improved, a vast majority still missed the bus. “Only students from affluent background were able to perform well. It does not represent the entire state as students from government schools and rural areas could not perform well in the entrance exam,” he said. This year, around 20,000 students from government schools wrote NEET.
Officials from the school education department said they could not see the full results since the server was down.
TIMES VIEW
It is a clear thumbs-down for anti-NEET politics in Tamil Nadu. The higher number of applicants, qualifiers and high-scorers than previous years indicates that MBBS-aspirants were oblivious to the debate over NEET and just aimed to ace the national-level test. But while the nearly four-fold jump in candidates figuring in different high mark-brackets is to be celebrated, a comparison with other states would dampen the spirits. Though it has third highest number of applicants, TN is ranked sixth in the number of qualifiers. There is not a single TN candidate in the top 50; the state’s topper is ranked 57 nationally. All these indicate the need to beef up the school syllabus, teaching and coaching of MBBS-aspirants. The uncertainty over NEET, at least in political discourses, must go and government must engage professionals to offer intense coaching to students of rural government schools.
TN students come up with a better NEET show, still behind other states
48.57% Clear Exam, 135 Get Above 600, Five-Fold Jump In No. Of Students Scoring More Than 550
Ragu.Raman@timesgroup.com 06.06.2019
Tamil Nadu students have spoken. Even as politicians bicker over the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), those writing it have sent a silent message. Burying the ghosts of NEET for now, 59,785 students from the state cleared the examination this year, taking up the qualifying percentage from 39.56% to 48.57%.
Also, from just two students who got above 600 in last NEET, the number soared to 135 this year. NEET is a 720-mark exam. Likewise, the number of students scoring above between 500 and 600 went up five-fold from just 213 last year to 1,194 this year.
“Overall, 14,297 students from Tamil Nadu have scored 300 and above,” an official from National Testing Agency told TOI.
Tamil Nadu topper Shruthi K (below right) scored 685 and secured an all-India rank of 57; she is the 10th among girls. Karvanna Prabu K K, a differently-abled candidate from TN, scored 572 marks and was among top five candidates to clear NEET in the differently-abled category.
“I expected good marks, but this has surprised me. I prepared for the exam for two years. Any student with hard work and dedication can crack NEET,” said Shruti, who also wrote entrances for AIIMS and JIPMER. “My first preference is JIPMER,” she said.
Many students from state board schools have scored above 600 this year.
“In our school, two students secured more than 600 and 18 students have scored above 500,” said P Swaminathan, secretary, SRV schools in Namakkal and Trichy.
Asked about the reasons for the improved performance, Swaminathan said many state board schools hired experts from other states to train students and introduced NEET coaching for old students.
“Tamil Nadu is already competing with other states in terms of performance. This year, from our institute alone, 30 students scored above 600. Due to availability of more seats, students with above 450 marks will get into good colleges,” said Chandan Chand, deputy director, Aakash Institute, Chennai.
At 1.23 lakh, TN had the third highest applicants for NEET this year and it has the sixth highest number of students who qualified the exam.
But educationist Prince Gajendrababu said though the performance of Tamil Nadu students improved, a vast majority still missed the bus. “Only students from affluent background were able to perform well. It does not represent the entire state as students from government schools and rural areas could not perform well in the entrance exam,” he said. This year, around 20,000 students from government schools wrote NEET.
Officials from the school education department said they could not see the full results since the server was down.
TIMES VIEW
It is a clear thumbs-down for anti-NEET politics in Tamil Nadu. The higher number of applicants, qualifiers and high-scorers than previous years indicates that MBBS-aspirants were oblivious to the debate over NEET and just aimed to ace the national-level test. But while the nearly four-fold jump in candidates figuring in different high mark-brackets is to be celebrated, a comparison with other states would dampen the spirits. Though it has third highest number of applicants, TN is ranked sixth in the number of qualifiers. There is not a single TN candidate in the top 50; the state’s topper is ranked 57 nationally. All these indicate the need to beef up the school syllabus, teaching and coaching of MBBS-aspirants. The uncertainty over NEET, at least in political discourses, must go and government must engage professionals to offer intense coaching to students of rural government schools.
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