The demands for postponing the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test - Undergraduate (NEET UG) are increasing. Various sections of students, activists and other concerned people have even written to the relevant government authorities asking them to intervene in the matter and consider the postponement. On Saturday, June 18, about one million tweets were seen to be circulating on Twitter regarding this issue. #JUSTICEforNEETUG has been trending on the platform for the last three days
The student from Odisha, Ashutosh Mishra, who had the meeting with the Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, said, “All our problems were put forth to the Ministry of Education. I submitted a memorandum and explained all our points to the Minister. He would read these submissions and would respond soon. I am actually sure that he had read them, because NTA has responded today (June 20).”
NTA has confirmed and accepted that it has received the representations from students, but also stated that there has been no change in the exam schedule yet, in reply to a Right to Information (RTI) query. The NEET-UG exam is scheduled to be held on July 17, and it is the students' demand, and the demand of other concerned people, that it should be deferred by about 40 day
There are 98 chapters to study. And only studying won’t help. We also need to revise the chapters thoroughly. Also, NEET is conducted only once every year, so there is the pressure to crack it in one go. People are facing high anxiety. We have to study 12-14 hours a day to cover the syllabus, and even then it cannot be entirely covered. So, 40 days is the least we can ask for,” he added.
“Those who just completed Class XII and are appearing for the exam for the first time, are facing other problems. CBSE had deleted seven to eight important chapters from their Class XII syllabus to reduce the burden. But these chapters carry a weightage of about 60 marks in the NEET exam. So, these students have to study these chapters on their own, and it takes about two weeks to complete them. The Class XII Board exams concluded on June 15, and they just have a month to prepare for NEET as it is. And if the time to study for these deleted chapters is taken into account, these students get only 15 days to study for the NEET exam. And they have to revise the Class XI syllabus as well,” Ashutosh explained.
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