NEET Q papers in Guj tougher than those in Eng: Examinees

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Press Trust of India Ahmedabad
Last Updated : May 08 2017 | 9:32 PM IST
The students who took the entrance test for undergraduate medical courses in Gujarati language today claimed the question papers in vernacular was different and much more difficult than those in English.
"All 180 questions in Gujarati and English language question papers were different. Questions asked in Gujarati language question papers were of a much higher difficulty level, so the common merit list makes no sense," claimed Rohit Rawal, who runs a coaching centre to guide the students for the National Entrance cum Eligibility Test (NEET).
"Any expert will tell you that the question papers in the two languages were entirely different and that the papers in Gujarati language were much tougher. The Gujarati medium students are bound to get much less marks compared to English language students," Rawal further claimed.
"Difficulty level in the Gujarati language paper was much higher compared to those in English. The Physics paper was specially tough. If this is a common entrance test, the standard of papers should be common, how else can they prepare a common merit list?" asked Khushbu Thaker, an aspirant.
Several other medical aspirants too had a similar compliant.
The CBSE "dress code" for the NEET too landed several students ion trouble. In some schools, the examination coordinators used scissors to trim the sleeves of the candidates' clothes as only sleeve-less dress was allowed inside the examination hall.
Protesting this, the members of National Students Union of India (NSUI) today burnt the effigy of Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar outside the Surat-based J H Ambani School where several candidates had to face the piquant situation of having their shirts' sleeves trimmed to take the examination.
The NEET was conducted yesterday by the Central Board of Secondary Education for admission to medical and dental colleges across the country in ten languages.
Around 90,000 students took NEET in Gujarat, out of which nearly 75,000 belong to the Gujarati medium.

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First Published: May 08 2017 | 9:32 PM IST

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