ALL 19,355 STUDENTS COACHED BY TAMIL NADU
GOVERNMENT FAIL TO GET MEDICAL SEAT
The state government reveals the most shocking news
regarding the first phase of medical counselling of 19,355 students coached at
the state sponsored NEET training centres. No one among these students is able
to secure a medical seat.
There were 412 VSAT centres opened all around the state
as joint project between the school education department and speed medical
institute. The main purpose was to train the students of government and
government aided schools to crack NEET. Around 2747 students were selected for
the residential coaching located different places including Chennai and
Kancheepuram.
As per the information of the last year there were 3
students from government schools and 4 from the government aided schools who
were able to secure a MBBS seats in the medical colleges. Bharathazhvar who
lives in the Virudhunagar district says that “My son has decided to prepare for
exam one more year. The cut-off for the SC category in the government medical
colleges was 474 seats.” Uma Shankar son of Bharath Hvar is one of the toppers
in the government aided schools and had scored 440 marks in NEET 2019. However,
there is increase in the students who have scored more than 300 marks in NEET
this year.
Last year, there were around 10 students last year who
were able to score more than 300 marks in the NEET, whereas this year 32
students are able to score more than 300 marks in the NEET 2019. There are around more than 2000 students who
have qualified the exam this year which is higher than last year where only 1333
students were able to clear exam.
The main reason for higher cut offs for all the
categories this year is repeat test takers. Due to this many student managed to
score more than 400 marks are not able to secure a medical seat in the college.
It makes it more difficult for the students from the government schools to
secure their seats in the government colleges as stated by the officials.
It is a matter of concern as last year on September 15,
2018 the school education minister KA Sengottaiyan set a target that 500 seats
must be secured by the students of the government and government aided schools.
But surprisingly no student has been able to get a medical seat in first round
of counselling.
There can be many reasons behind this poor result. As per
the sources “State government was not interested in the coaching to be
organised for the NEET. Due to the non-payment for the bandwidth connection and
VSAT dishes the classes were not continued after December 1, 2018. The classes
were not resumed as the state government has no interest in restarting the
coaching.” As per the officials the coaching should start from first week of
June to next may for a good result.
For the better preparation of the state board student’s
government has revised the syllabus. A principal said “there is new syllabus
for the students studying in class 12 this year. It will help them for
appearing the NEET next year. However, there should be good quality study
material and regular tests held for better preparation of the students.”
The district where improvement in the result has been
observed is Namakkal district. Here the schools started the NEET coaching where
around 49 students including 29 repeaters were sent for MBBS this year from
different schools as stated by P Swaminathan, secretary, SRV schools. There
were many schools which collaborated with NEET coaching institutes and provided
training to students in 2 batches where one batch for current students and 2nd
batch for the repeaters. The main aim was to provide individual attention to
students so that all the students can perform well in the exam.
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