Student Who Fought NEET Exam In Supreme Court Found Hanging

[The Dark Horse]

Chennai is not TN. That many people from TN get selected into medical colleges might be true. But if you take the percentage of students from rural TN who get admission into medical colleges, it will be almost zero. These people don't have access to the coaching centres and the likes. On the other hand, students who studied in Tamil medium and in rural areas used to become doctors and they were the ones who served their villages instead of looking for greener pastures outside.

It's easy to brush this off as a political conspiracy but the larger picture is even NEET is not perfect. It is creating well oiled machines who spend years after their school in preparing for the test. Whether they make good doctors after their course is a big question mark.

[The Outsider]

11 hours ago, rkt.india said:

Einstein also said " Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I am sure about the universe."  Irrespective of how educated a human is, he can always have traces of stupidity inside him.

 

PS: Check the link beetle posted. Now after NEET there are more admissions from TN in medical colleges than before. Instead of asking govt to improve the standard of education, you are asking to lower the criteria for admissions. 

Actually, the quote is, 'I am not sure about the universe'. 

 

Radhika's link, if anything, proves my point. Bulk of the admissions are from Chennai and other urban centers which have access to CBSE schools and coaching. 

 

Firstly, there is no evidence to suggest CBSE/NEET is better than TN board. Secondly, and more importantly, even if it is then this is like putting the cart before the horse. More privileged people will get admission this way who will then go abroad or set up clinics in urban centers. The well functioning health care system in TN will be destroyed because there won't be doctors to work there. As for evidence that TN health care system is one of the best in India, you can look up comparisons of HDI among different states. Instead of making the entrance criteria so to include more rural and poor, this is excluding them just because they don't have access to CBSE schools and are too poor to afford coaching. 

[Detonator]

On 9/9/2017 at 10:00 PM, The Dark Horse said:

Chennai is not TN. That many people from TN get selected into medical colleges might be true. But if you take the percentage of students from rural TN who get admission into medical colleges, it will be almost zero. These people don't have access to the coaching centres and the likes. On the other hand, students who studied in Tamil medium and in rural areas used to become doctors and they were the ones who served their villages instead of looking for greener pastures outside.

It's easy to brush this off as a political conspiracy but the larger picture is even NEET is not perfect. It is creating well oiled machines who spend years after their school in preparing for the test. Whether they make good doctors after their course is a big question mark.

But you also have to see the other side of the coin.

 

Just look at the bottom 4 districts. They are home to the infamous "broiler schools" where the only strategy to get into medicine is mugging up. The problem isn't the NEET, but a lot bigger one. Ever since the single state board (samacheer) up to 10th came into picture, the number of government college students who joined medicine dropped sharply. The biggest cause is that they weren't able to adopt to the tougher 12th syllabus, be it state or matric or CBSE. The reason is this single state board syllabus is a diluted version of the older one. 

This led to a massive raise in CBSE private schools in TN. The primary reason was that the private schools (exp the broiler schools of those 4 districts) marketed these state board as nearly worthless. Almost half of the state board were converted to CBSE. The place where they did most damage is the students who move from CBSE to state board. They scored centums like it's nothing. Just in last year there are 2500 students scored centums in math, and they are breaking the previous record every year.  Those schools turned into a giant education mafia, where even the real estate catapulted to massive heights in those districts. 

Ofcourse NEET isn't the solution. Nearly 42% who cleared NEET are previous year batches, and that's why Chennai is able to top the list. JJ was vehemently opposing NEET but she knew that NEET(or any other common exam) is inevitable and wanted to abolish this single state board. DMK managed to stall it and led the poor believing that a tougher syllabus won't help the rural.