Suicide is undoubtedly unacceptable
whatever reason has been told behind one. Anitha’s suicide due to unable to
attain medical course because of less marks in NEET (National Eligibility and
Entrance Test, for Indian students who wish to join medical course) has gripped the entire
state of Tamil Nadu. She didn’t give up just by that but has fought against the
NEET, arguing in the Supreme Court, impleading herself as a respondent
demanding an exception to NEET for Tamil
Nadu when the state govt. let down
the state board students without aid them in anyways.
The 17-year-old Anitha from Ariyalur,
the most backward district of Tamil Nadu has scored 1176 marks out of 1200 in
her 12th board exams and was determined to be a doctor with cut off
mark of 196.75 out of 200. But her NEET scores couldn’t make the cut as she
scored only 86 out of 700 in the newly introduced entrance exam. It’s obvious that
it wasn’t her fault in anyways and for the girl who scored top in board exams,
NEET couldn’t be a trouble if she instructed properly. Not only she, all students went to write the exams
with a confused state whether the central govt. will waive or not for Neet in
Tamil Nadu.
It’s completely failure of the deal
between the state and central govt. and the education system with different
syllabus for each state, how could they go for a common entrance exam when
there’s lot of differences between the CBSE (central board of secondary
education) and state boards. Neet could
be a better option only in the future when there’s a common education system
and syllabus cross the country. I think
Neet isn’t’ included as a subject in schools and one has to take special
coaching classes to train themselves to write the exam.
One of my nephews wrote Neet and
they paid about 25000 for just a month course of Neet. Because of difficulty and
to score high he shifted to state board after studying up to 10th in
CBSE to join medical course and in belief Neet will be waived off Tamil Nadu. Though
he scored high marks in 12th and less in Neet unable him to attend
the council but without delay he joined engineering. Anitha seems to be intense
about joining medical course despite the fact that she had an Aeronautical Engineering
seat at the prestigious Madras Institute of Technology.
For the middle and above classes,
taking the special coaching for Neet couldn’t be much difficult¸ but for a
daughter or son of labour (alike Anitha) or farmer isn’t same. This isn’t the state of only
Tamil Nadu, but all states face the difficult when the coaching for Neet doesn’t
come free. A competition could be fair only if both sides are strong enough and
CBSE consist of high standard compare to state and matric syllabus how could NEET
be justified and be common to all. India is a diverse country and each state
has a different language and syllabus to read and when things was like this the
state wide entrance exam could be the right unless a common syllabus spread across
India.