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Cleansing NEET: On a recast test

What comes undone is best redone. The latest development in the prolonged National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2024 saga has played out in the court, and will answer the question raised initially — the unusually high number of toppers this year. The Supreme Court of India’s ruling on the right answer to a particular physics question in the NEET paper, based on the expert opinion of IIT Delhi professionals, has brought down the number of toppers from 61 to a more reasonable number — 17. The wrong answer for the disputed question was chosen reportedly by four lakh students, including 44 in the list of toppers. As a result, all these students will lose five marks each. Ruling that there could be only one correct answer, the Court directed the National Testing Agency (NTA) to revis...
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NEET-PG 2024 exam to be held on August 11 | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The National Board of Examination has announced that the NEET-PG 2024 examination, which was previously scheduled for June 23, will now be held on August 11."In continuation of NBEMS notice dated 22.06.2024, the conduct of NEET-PG 2024 examination has been rescheduled. The NEET-PG 2024 shall now be conducted on 11th August 2024 in two shifts," the statement said.The sudden cancellation of the exam, which was announced less than 12 hours before its scheduled time, came without any specific reasons being provided. The decision was made amidst allegations of paper leaks in the recently held NEET-UG exams, which determine the eligibility of candidates for admission to undergraduate medical programmes in government and private medical colleges.The NEET-PG exam is conducted by the ...
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Video | NTA Fails The Test Of Exams: We The People Want Answers

The National Testing Agency in India has made national and international headlines lately. The NEET, UGC-NET exams were cancelled following a series of irregularities in marking and subsequent allegations of a paper leak. UGC-CSIR was also delayed due to logistical reasons and the NEET PG was delayed as a precautionary measure. Needless to say India's nodal testing body, the NTA, has failed India's students. But, the question is with lakhs of students' lives and futures at stake, is the removal of the NTA head enough or is there a need to rethink the existence of the NTA and the whole process of exam conduct in India? Source link
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CBI registers case against Haryana education officials over fake student admissions and fund siphoning – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday registered a case against officials of the Primary Education Department in Haryana, alleging the fake admission of 4,00,000 students in government schools across the state between 2014 and 2016.The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday arrested two more accused in the NEET-UG paper leak case."The duo, Dr Ehsaan Ul Haq and Imtiaz Alam, were working as the principal and vice principal of the Oasis School in Jharkhand's Hazaribagh," CBI sources said.Notably, Haq was appointed the city coordinator by National Testing Agency for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET-UG 2024).Earlier on Thursday, the CBI arrested two people from Bihar's Patna in connection with the alleged irregularities in the NEET-UG exam.A ...
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Preventing another NEET fiasco

Candidates wait to enter a NEET examination centre in Mangaluru on May 5, 2024. | Photo Credit: The Hindu During the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) this year, scores and ranks were inflated. As a consequence, many candidates may not get admission to their desired college as predicted based on previous years’ scores.Coaching and admission counselling centres, typically run by business tycoons, have realised that clients, the NEET aspirants, have failed to secure preferred seats despite their advice. However, despite this fiasco, the industry has found a way to enhance their brand value through media and social media coverage. The owners of this trillion-rupee industry, along with the 23 lakh NEET aspirants this year, are up in arms. Their hypothesis is that mapping scores...
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Video | NEET-PG Test Scheduled For Tomorrow Postponed As Exam Mess Spirals

The NEET-PG scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed and fresh dates will be announced soon, the Health Ministry said in a statement today.The government alluding to the huge row over alleged irregularities in NEET-UG and UGC-NET said it decided to "undertake a thorough assessment of the robustness of processes of NEET-PG, conducted by the National Board of Examination for medical students." Source link
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Video | The NEET Row: Continuing Shortcomings In Our Exam Systems?

Amid concerns about the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for admission into medical colleges, the Supreme Court today came down heavily on the National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts the nationwide exam for medical college aspirants. "If there's even 0.001% negligence on anyone's part, it should be thoroughly dealt with," the Supreme Court said. The Supreme Court - while hearing a batch of petitions over the alleged irregularities in the exam - said it expects a "timely action" from the NTA and that the agency must ensure that all candidates are treated fairly. ...
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Video | NEET Fiasco: What’s The Way Forward?

It's an elite exam and is in the eye of a massive storm. This week NEET hogged headlines for all the wrong reasons - from allegations of paper leaks to malpractices. It's just one exam and 24 lakhs appeared for it. There are over 60 toppers - a bunch of them from just one centre scoring 720 out of 720 marks, which was unimaginable to date. Hundreds scored 719 and 718 marks, which is impossible in the NEET marking scheme. The National Testing Agency has said that these scores were due to grace marks given to some students at some centres where there were glitches and students lost time. The Supreme Court ordered a retest for the 1,563 students who got the grace marks. However, the larger aspirant communi...
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Video | Haryana Students File Complaint Over NEET Result, Official Promises Action

After the results of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET-UG) 2024 were released, students highlighted the inflated marks and alleged malpractices in the conduct of exams. Around 67 candidates have bagged top rank in the exam. Of these, around six candidates had appeared for the exam from the same centre in Haryana. Questions are also being raised on students getting 718 and 719 marks (out of 720) in the undergraduate medical entrance exam as the marking scheme follows +4 -1 system. Parents of some of the protesting students filed a complaint before Additional Deputy Commissioner Jind demanding investigation in the alleged irregularities in NEET exam. ...
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