NEET fiasco: Meet the heroes behind the massive protests
₹4,000- ₹5,000 for our NEET exam course material. Right now, even a student with a high score is not celebrating because people may allege that the student has received the marks through unfair means," Pandey told Mint. Before we tell you about the other faces behind the protest, let us understand how exams of this scale are conducted.
The NEET (undergraduate) tests students on physics, biology and chemistry. Students have to answer 180 questions. This year, the tests took place on 5 May, between 2 pm-5.20 pm, in 4,750 centres across 571 cities in India and 14 cities outside the country.
Students have to answer objective questions on their ‘OMR’ sheets. OMR sheets, or optical mark recognition, is a technology that allows quick readings of surveys, large scale data and answer sheets where the responses are darkened on a specially designed paper. In the case of NEET, the answers were marked by students and scanners tabulated if the answers were correct.
Few days after the exam, NTA uploads the scanned OMR sheets and the ‘answer key’ is released. Students can therefore tally how much they scored. Once the final test scores are declared by the agency, students secure seats in medical colleges across the country depending on their ranks.
Until last year, a score of 550-570 plus may have guaranteed a seat in a government college while 480 and above meant a seat in a private college. This year, the NTA declared that the minimum score to qualify in the unreserved category was 164 versus 137 last year. The average marks scored was 323.55 versus 279.41 last year.
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