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  • NEET to trouble Inter BiPC pupils.

    The NEET will compound the woes of Intermediate BiPC students seeking admission into dental, agriculture, veterinary, home science, pharmacy and biotechnology courses. Since NEET deals with only MBBS admissions, biology students will have to appear for separate tests for admissions into these professional courses. These students have to appear only for the Eamcet medical entrance exam for admissions into these courses now. But if NEET replaces Eamcet, the biology students will have to appear for both the tests if they want admission to courses other than MBBS. Also, a short span of five months is left for preparation of both NEET and Eamcet, which has variations in their syllabi.

    While about 70,000 students appear for Eamcet, there are just 4,800 MBBS seats available in the State. Students therefore used to opt for dental courses later in the Eamcet counselling. After MBBS and BDS seats are filled, students usually opt for veterinary or agriculture courses offered by the Acharya NG Ranga Agriculture University. There are about 1,830 dental seats in 21 medical colleges, besides the 270 seats in veterinary courses and 500 seats in agriculture courses.

    All these issues need to be addressed before implementing NEET. “We have submitted a report explaining the pros and cons of NEET. It’s up to the government to take a final decision. The government has clarified that it will seek time till 2013 to implement NEET,” said Prof Jayaprakash Rao, chairman, AP State Council of Higher Education.

    Source : DC

  • Colleges question timing of NEET.

    Sri Chaitanya Group of Institutions chairman B.S. Rao, has urged the State government to re-think over its reported decision to adopt the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for medical admissions in the State from next year.

    Dr. Rao told a press conference that it was good to have a common entrance test nation-wide but the timing of the decision was wrong. There is lot of syllabus variation in science subjects across the country and State students would lose out with syllabus disparity ranging from 20 per cent to 50 per cent in chemistry and biology subjects. When just one mark makes difference to admissions in medical colleges such huge variation can create havoc with students ambitions. Moreover, Telugu medium students will find it almost difficult to attempt the test which would be in English and Hindi. Nearly 25 to 30 per cent of students who write EAMCET attempt it in Telugu medium.

    Students in government colleges will be the most affected as it was impossible for them to plug the existing gap between state and central syllabus.

    At least, the corporate colleges teach central syllabus to their students as they also appear for other national medical entrance exams. He said any change in such important entrance examinations should be informed to the students when they join the course so that they can prepare keeping the syllabus in view. He said even teachers were not prepared to teach the new syllabus.

    Dr. Rao said he was in favour of a national entrance exam as students have to write seven to eight exams for various medical colleges but the critical decision has come late. It can be introduced from 2014 or at least next year. He also feared that parents and students would move the courts seeking justice.

    Several academics are also questioning the haste with which the government has taken a decision.

    Source : The Hindu

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