NEET ‘uncertainty’ hits students’ interest - The Times Of India

NEET ‘uncertainty’ hits students’ interest - The Times Of India

Sambath.Kumar@timesgroup.com

Trichy:

3.7.2021

The number of students taking up free NEET coaching has been gradually decreasing across the state over the last few days. With the notification of this year’s NEET yet to come and arts and science colleges starting admissions, teachers designated to monitor these students say many of them are losing interest and they are unable to convince them to attend the daily online test.

It was the previous AIADMK government that introduced free NEET coaching for government school students in 2017.

It was later shifted to the online mode in June 2020 after the pandemic struck. A private firm was hired for imparting NEET coaching on the EBox platform.

Classes for all the subjects under the online coaching got over about two months ago and since then students were made to take daily online test. To ensure better learning, one higher secondary teacher was designated for four students taking up the training to ensure effective monitoring.

Teachers say there was not much cooperation from students in recent days. Many of them started believing that there would be no NEET this year. What strengthened their belief was the delay in NEET notification. “I could not establish contact with two of the four students over the last few days. They also exited from the WhatsApp group that I created for the four students,” said a teacher from Madurai adding he had informed the district NEET coordinator about the issue.

This has been the case in many districts and teachers say that students are losing interest in being engaged in prolonged NEET coaching.

The number of students taking up free NEET coaching has been gradually decreasing across the state```