The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to medical courses will not be made mandatory for students appearing for the exam in 2016. The Union Cabinet met on Friday to discuss the issue and passed the ordinance postponing the Supreme Court order, which made NEET compulsory, by a year.
There were three objections against NEET from 2016. They are - most of the aspirants had been preparing according to the old syllabus, many of them were from regional language boards and the time was too less to adapt to the new format.
In its order, the SC had scrapped medical entrance tests by individual states, colleges and universities and backed NEET. The exam for the current year will be conducted in the older format.
The Cabinet took the decision after students had protested against the SC order. The medical aspirants who were ready for exams in regional languages had claimed that they did not have enough time to prepare for the admission through the new format.
An all-party meet held recently had unanimously agreed to postponing the common medical entrance exam, and holding it in regional languages. The meeting was attended by Congress, BSP, INLD, Left, PDP and other regional parties.
Most students feel that the exam should be conducted in regional languages otherwise they claim, it gives English medium students an unfair advantage.
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