NEET – FROM BEING GRACE-LESS TO GRACE-FUL
At the eventide hours of 4th June, when whole country was on an edge as the electoral verdict of world’s largest democracy was getting unveiled, a surprise element of declaring the NEET result much before the due date was added by the National testing agency. Many a times such kind of surprising elements are a welcome step especially among the students who remain more anxious as far as their carrier is concerned. However, rather than a being a surprising element, it seems the declaration of result was strategically planned on that specific day so as to avoid the discussion of various alterations made in the merit list under the big carpet of electoral result discussion.
Surprisingly, the merit list showed an inflation of ranks with more than half a century of students positioned at a place where the scope of error remains zero irrespective and the other few were subsequently placed below them with odd marks on board which is not practically possible in the said examination. To add to all this altercations, an unusual and unprecedented pattern of granting grace marks as implemented- the pattern, logic and method known to the best of those authoritarians only who were at the realm of giving these marks. An unusual allowance of approving two answers for a single question as correct based upon the old and new edition of NCERT (which ideally should have been assessed as per the new NCERT edition only and not old edition) also added to the surprising element as it is always the latest and updated version of any field that needs to be prioritised and considered the right choice.Even the pattern of granting ranks to the ones who scored similar marks showed an unusual pattern as the ranking of such students was based upon the date and time of submission of the online form rather than the time tested pattern of their ranking mentioned in the brochure. This kind of ranking pattern made an empathic students to pay a heavy price as the ones who delayed in submission of their online forms so to avoid congestion on the website and prevent recurrent crashing, had to settle down with a lower rank than the ones who submitted it earlier.
In all such kind of doings, the only ones who get traumatised mentally, emotionally and rationally are the hard-working students who have grinded themselves all through the year, curbed their desires and garnered their whole energy and effort to attain the desired knowledge and goal. The authorities and the stakeholders need to understand that it is the fate of two and half million youth that is at stake and by doing such kind of gimmicks we are not only playing with their future but unfortunately are creating and guiding the youth to negativity if the same does not get what he desires and deserves. Every youth, in fact every human being, desires to be at the top but the need of these kind of examinations is to find out whether the one who desire to be at top really deserve it or not and only those who deserve to be at top after screening should be put there irrespective of their background.
The demand for ReNEET seems to be non-coherent and is again a trauma to the 2.5 million students. The more logical and legitimate alternative is to subject the students who were given grace marks to re-examination and correlate the scoring marks of rest of students in a randomised manner with their 10th and 12th class marks as there have been videos making rounds on social media that even those who couldn’t clear their qualifying exams were also lucky enough to find their names among the higher rankers.
The credibility of these kind of exams is based upon the transparency and authorities should always try their best to maintain that and avoid any forging both with the conduct and result of the exams. By doing that, the reliance upon the system will be strengthened and India will be able to retain far more talented people within the country rather than forcing the top stuff to leave the country and providing their services outside.
Dr. Pawan Suri
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