Educationists slam move to conduct screening test for NEET coaching
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:05.08.2019
The move to conduct a screening test for students from government and government-aided schools to provide NEET coaching has received flak from educationists and teachers who said it would deny opportunities to poor children to prepare for NEET.
After drawing a blank in medical admissions, the school education department has proposed to conduct a screening test on August 7 to select students for NEET and JEE coaching. It also insisted on conducting weekly tests on Fridays to prepare the children for the exam.
V Vasanthidevi, senior educationist and former vicechancellor of Manonmaniam Sundaranar University said the government should oppose an unfair exam like NEET instead of coaching the children for it. “The fact that not a single student was able to get a medical seat tells that the government can never compete with NEET coaching centres. The students who spend one or two years and lakhs of rupees on coaching were able to get the medical seat. There is a big coaching centre empire in the making,” she said.
All the students who wish to prepare for NEET coaching should be given an opportunity, said P B Prince Gajendrababu, general secretary, state platform for common school system. “Though we are opposing the common medical test, we should stop students who want to take it. By conducting this new test, the department is shifting the blame on poor children for failure to send a single student for medical colleges,” he said, adding that the proposed screening test will act as another filter while NEET itself is a filtering exam.
Some teachers said this exam can have negative impact on the morale of the students. “The announcement that screening test would be conducted on August 7 for government school students for enrolling into NEET coaching has shocked parents. It is saddening to see that the government is trying to filter students. It should provide coaching to all students interested to appear for NEET and JEE,” said P K Ilamaran, president, Tamil Nadu Teachers Association.
He also urged the school education department to reconsider conducting the screening test for NEET coaching for government school students. Tamil Nadu High and Higher Secondary Schools Headmasters’ Association president A Peter Raja said the move will further put stress on government school students. “Instead, the school education department can select the students based on their Class X marks for coaching,” he said.
The school education department has proposed to conduct a screening test on August 7 to select students for NEET and JEE coaching
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:05.08.2019
The move to conduct a screening test for students from government and government-aided schools to provide NEET coaching has received flak from educationists and teachers who said it would deny opportunities to poor children to prepare for NEET.
After drawing a blank in medical admissions, the school education department has proposed to conduct a screening test on August 7 to select students for NEET and JEE coaching. It also insisted on conducting weekly tests on Fridays to prepare the children for the exam.
V Vasanthidevi, senior educationist and former vicechancellor of Manonmaniam Sundaranar University said the government should oppose an unfair exam like NEET instead of coaching the children for it. “The fact that not a single student was able to get a medical seat tells that the government can never compete with NEET coaching centres. The students who spend one or two years and lakhs of rupees on coaching were able to get the medical seat. There is a big coaching centre empire in the making,” she said.
All the students who wish to prepare for NEET coaching should be given an opportunity, said P B Prince Gajendrababu, general secretary, state platform for common school system. “Though we are opposing the common medical test, we should stop students who want to take it. By conducting this new test, the department is shifting the blame on poor children for failure to send a single student for medical colleges,” he said, adding that the proposed screening test will act as another filter while NEET itself is a filtering exam.
Some teachers said this exam can have negative impact on the morale of the students. “The announcement that screening test would be conducted on August 7 for government school students for enrolling into NEET coaching has shocked parents. It is saddening to see that the government is trying to filter students. It should provide coaching to all students interested to appear for NEET and JEE,” said P K Ilamaran, president, Tamil Nadu Teachers Association.
He also urged the school education department to reconsider conducting the screening test for NEET coaching for government school students. Tamil Nadu High and Higher Secondary Schools Headmasters’ Association president A Peter Raja said the move will further put stress on government school students. “Instead, the school education department can select the students based on their Class X marks for coaching,” he said.
The school education department has proposed to conduct a screening test on August 7 to select students for NEET and JEE coaching
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