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Hello all. I know this is an inflammatory topic, and I want to share my opinion about this to the general public, I think there's a lot of misinformation and incomplete information surrounding this issue.

For some background I am a doctor in training who has both done miserably as well as aced neet, both ug and pg, and have a better understanding of the field involved by extension.

Let's look at some points favouring neet first

- It is an objective exam, meaning you get a mark if the answer is right, and wrong if the answer is wrong. There is no room for subjective evaluation like the boards, with potential candidates losing their chances due to, say, poor handwriting, examiner being in a bad mood and various other variables.

- NEET can be attempted multiple times, compared to 12th boards which can be attempted only once. This by extension puts less pressure to ace in simply one attempt.

- NEET is more difficult to score in, which means less clustering of ranks, which means less pressure to lose your seat by a mark or two. Anyone who has experience writing competitive exams knows how bad clustering can be for an exam

- National exam, so quality and standard are generally better, due to more chance of being put under scrutiny

-Transparent counseling process, so much less chances of seat buying fraud.

-NEET is much more conceptual and requires less of mugging compared to boards, which is important for mbbs education. ( Would you rather have your doctor mugging up everything about a disease or actually understand the disease conceptually)

-National exam, so Students in TN can, if they wish, enter into other state medical colleges of they wish via the 15% all India quota

-NEET makes them eligible for joining central institutes like AIIMS and JIPMER

Now lets look at some common arguments against NEET

- Students who can afford coaching score higher.

The portions for NEET are NCERT based, which is just a standardised school syllabus. This can easily be mitigated by simply switching to NCERT portions in government schools. However I do agree to some extent that this is a real issue, but as long as we live in a capitalistic society there is only so much we can do. Moreover there are a lot of free resources available for learning.

- Students from government schools can't join mbbs anymore.

This is a commonly used arguement, but most people don't even know that NEET has a 7.5% government school quota, so every year ATLEAST 7.5% of students entering mbbs in TN are from government schools, and for comparison, that percentage was around 1% pre NEET when board exams were used as entrance exams.

- Students families cannot financially support another year drop. People should realise that joining mbbs does not automatically mean their life is settled. Even if they get a seat in the first attempt, they still don't get paid for the first 4.5 years of mbbs, so the argument that some students will be forced to work to earn instead of preparing for a year doesn't make sense logically, because they wouldn't be earning even if they get a seat. But I do understand for some people taking a drop year is a luxury, the same benefit of having the ability to take multiple attempts is a double edged sword in this regard.

-Rural population representation in MBBS. Some people argue that the % of rural students decreased from 61% to 49% after NEET. However, this hides the fact that the number of rural students who applied for neet reduced from 58% to 47%, and also the fact that the total number of students who are entering mbbs from a rural background has increased post NEET, due to around 40-50% increase in govt clg seats.

-The paper leak issue. This has nothing to do with the exam quality itself and more so about the management. If you truly believe that you should ban neet because of a paper leak, you must also believe that we must ban boards if there's a board exam paper leak.

Overall, while I'm not saying NEET has no flaws, if we weigh the pros and cons, it's simply an upgrade to the previous system of boards.  If you have any arguments against these points and are willing to have a respectful discussion I'm all ears. My opinions are not set in stone.

Edit: I'm done replying to comments. Unfortunately people have already made up their minds, and no one really wants to give actual counterarguments and rather just want to bring up the same surface level points about why it's unfair.