'Not Footballs In Game Of Power': Top Court Slams Centre On NEET Exam Changes
NDTV
The Supreme Court today came down heavily on the Centre for announcing last-minute changes to the pattern of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test Post-Graduate Super Specialty (NEET SS) exam 2021. It has asked the government to to hold meetings of the concerned authorities and submit a response to plea against the tweaks on October 4.
The plea by 41 post-graduate doctors had challenged the abrupt changes contending that this was done to favour general medicine candidates. In 2018, NEET SS involved 40 per cent of the questions from general medicine and 60 per cent from super specialty. This time, however, all questions are to be from general medicine.
The plea stated that dates of NEET-SS 2021 were announced on July 23, 2021, but the change in pattern was made public more than a month later on August 31 "when only two months remained before the NEET-SS 2021 exams, to be held on the 13th and 14th of November 2021".
According to the 41 doctors, aspirants have been preparing along the older pattern for the past three years.
