NEET 2024 Controversy: 'Leaks,’ grace marks, rank inflation, flip-flops & nationwide protests

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Lakhs of young aspirants and their families are up in arms across India with multiple controversies denting the credibility of NEET-UG 2024. There’re multiple legal challenges to the exam to select students for about 1.2 lakh medical college (MBBS) seats. Union Government has nullified the scorecards of 1563 NEET-UG 2024 candidates who received “grace” marks and offered them a re-test, following Supreme Court concerns over irregularities. In episode 1468 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta and Nootan Sharma discuss the paper leak, government's response, controversies rank inflation & flip flops.
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[SMHX]

For those who didn't understand 650/720 in neet is achieved after blood burning hard work and takes years to achieve.
Till last year this score was interview worthy.

[manavbansal]

Shekhar Sir, i gave NEET in 2019, and shall finish my mbbs next year. I wish to point to a tragic reality of the exam system. Sir, for example, the 67 students, who all rank 1st, will be allotted seats based on alphabetical order, that is, the first letter of their name shall decide whther they can enter aiims delhi, or not. In spite of ranking 1, there will be 21 people who cant get a seat in aiims delhi. When this phenomenon occurs at lower scores, say at 650 or 630, parameters like spelling of your name, and date of birth, come to decide whether you get a seat, or shall have to repeat the exam after 1 year, which is just tragic. The cause behind this is exactly as you mentioned - " rank inflation", but we need to realise the reason for that - the consistent lowering of the difficulty level of the exam. Unlike board exams/subjective exams, in objective exams like NEET or JEE, the tougher is the exam, the higher is the probability of someone getting a seat based on their merit, and not luck. I have attempted all the exams (for practice) from 2013 till 2019, and starting 2016, there has been a constant decline in the exam difficulty. This rot in the system is something not many are willing to talk about.
I am where i am today bcoz of the seamless manner in which the exam is usually conducted, and strongly support neet exam and its organisers for the way they maintain integrity of the exam. Last time such a controversy arose was in 2015. Neet is not a disputed exam in general whereas, as stalin proposes, use of class 12 exam marks in the calculation of merit os perilous as there are rampant dummy schools in india whoch will happily award you full marks in practical exams, to tilt the scales in your balance in the class 12 exam, cbse as well as state boards. Where as neet eleminites most such human involvement by using OMR and a uniform exam pattern. But NEET needs improvement, not cancellation.
1. NEET needs to be organised multiple times a year to reduce the stress and correspondingly hogh number of suicides related to the exam, since the stress of a just 3 hours of an exam which can make or break one's future, can easily cause a mental breakdown.
2. Difficulty levels need to be seriously ramped up to restore balance and stop the extreme rank inflation which has happened messively over the past 6-7 years.
3. Grievance redressal is a big weakness of NTA, for which they need to be further pressurised, just as they are being done right now.

[nan_dy]

Who gives grace marks in a competitive exam?

[bhargavaram]

400 crores for conducting shambolic and doubtful, non transparent NEET exams😂😂

[Drganguli]

Something shady is going on in NEET. This needs to be fixed asap otherwise imagine the kind of doctors you will get in the future. Surgeons who don’t know the liver from the heart! Exams are the bedrock of India’s education system and must not be allowed to degenerate

[shubhamkumar-rrmj]

And minister of education pradhan ji saying there is nothing wrong and is not takinf responsibility such a shameful act.

[shishirsks]

There are modern ways to randomize the questions from a large pool and conduct the test multiples times a year under video surveillance and biometric verification. The western world including America and Europe conduct countless exams using such technologies. Its a shame our babus and politicians are sure to mess up simple things beyond hope!

[vigilanthuman]

I can't imagine feeling relieved after exam and then I have to study again.

[chocolatemilkshake]

Grace was never the problem ... It was the rank inflation .... My friend who got 614 marks last year got 14k rank but this year he would have gotten 65k rank .... Even if we took out the 1600 people who got grace marks, it would still be 63.4k rank which is alot. I don't understand why no one is talking about the increased competition and lack seats !! We might be a young country but we are destroying the youth by these exams unnecessarily !!

[AchintyaKAK]

This brings up flashbacks of the mess up by IIT Madras in the IITJEE 2010 where they issued the key and then followed another key while marking. This also had rank inflation as same marks in IITJEE 2009 that would give 1000 rank were giving 5000 rank in this. All the coaching institute rank predictors were wrong but funny thing was all just accepted their fate instead of going to courts

[sharadgupta]

Shekhar ji, many congratulations to giving opportunities to young bright female reporters. Your young colleague covering this story and who was on this video with you, has inspired me and I am sure given hope and inspiration to many young girls who do not necessarily come from south Delhi English schools but are as good if not better than anyone else..

[jaideepchahal]

I feel that the big corporate coaching centers have somehow cracked the Q bank from which the NEET test may have been prepared.

[mallikarjunsirwar]

Similar mess up happened earlier this year for CLAT 24. There were many ambiguous questions. Ranks went for toss and lot of students had heartburn. Volumes are low and hence it didn’t get media attention.

Strike rate for CLAT is less than 3% since available seats are very low.

[dilipsharma]

I don't know how the poor students and students who live in hilly regions of NE would pay such high tuition fees to become a doctor? It appears these exams are designed to benefit only the street smart students of mainland india.

[himanshusingh]

UPSC conducts two 6 hour exams and 1 interview (total 12.2 hours) for Rs 100. And also checks subjective papers in Mains.

NTA can't conduct just one 3 hour exam that too without subjective checking

[sarabjits]

Why students who got delayed question paper cud not b given extra time

[sanjaygadhalay]

67. toppers. ? @720 thats a nonsensical exam desighned badly ...

[khaalis]

The cut-offs are getting ridiculously high. I remember 6 years back, when I scored 524 and thought I could get into the best medical college of my state, since the previous year, around 520 (should be around 5k-6k) was enough. But in 2018 I secured a 13k rank. Nevertheless, I could manage a seat in one of the newly established Government Medical colleges of my state. To see students not being able to secure a college even after scoring 650, that only toppers could bag, sounds outrageously improbable. If the questions are getting predictable and easy, an overhauling in the pattern is the need of the hour. Students wasting so many years in preparation, the looming uncertainty in the drop years and the gruelling mental burden is too much for the young children, many of whom are taking the first competitive exam in their lives. The least that could be expected is a fair examination.

[vidyadhardeodhar]

Very refreshing, candid tone and responses from Nutan !!
Loved to see someone who can match the spontaneity of Shekhar 😊

[dhireshsalian]

Excellent CTC, clearly articulated the issues and concerns. Mr Gupta, your protege did well!