Class XI students are in a tizzy after the Supreme Court restored NEET for admissions to medical and dental colleges.
Class XI students are in a tizzy after the Supreme Court restored NEET for admissions to medical and dental colleges. Students and preparatory institutions say that it will be impossible for them to study the syllabus of class XI and XII in one year to appear for NEET next year. Activists have said that the government should start NEET from 2018 and not 2017.
Dr A Kanadiya, an instructor from a preparatory institution in Andheri said, “The students are panic-stricken ever since the news of the Supreme Court restoring NEET was announced. We are finding it very difficult to make the students concentrate on their studies as most lectures veer off to the catastrophic development for most of them”. He adding that as the state had introduced the joint CET for medical and engineering based on Class XII syllabus, the students had been preparing themselves based on the state syllabus. However, as NEET is to be held based on CBSE syllabus they will have to relearn everything from scratch.
“As NEET will be based on the Class XI and XII syllabus we will not be able to complete our preparation in the time of the NEET if the state decides to conduct it from 2017. We hope the government allows students from Class XI to attempt the joint CET in 2017 and introduce NEET from 2018,” said a student. Replying to the concerns, minister Vinod Tawde said, “Since NEET is based on CBSE syllabus, the state will have to upgrade its syllabus. A decision in this regard will be taken in the meeting convened by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare”.
