College deans feel that medical education is being compromised because of the new system
The new percentile system in the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) has a massive glitch that enables students with just 5% marks in physics and 20% marks in biology to get admission into medical collages.
As per a Times of India report, the percentile system is the main reason behind this shocking revelation. Earlier, before NEET was made compulsory in 2016, admission cutoffs were 50% in general category and 40% for reserved category.
From 2016, with the introduction of percentile system, this changd to 50th and 40th percentile, respectively, opening the doors to candidates with just 18-20% marks in the NEET aggregate.
The difference between percentage is this: If you were appearing for a medical entrance test, then you would have to score at least 360/720 marks i.e. 50% in general category to appear. However, percentile measures the candidate proportion and not the scores. Thus, 50th percentile means students with more marks than the bottom half, 90th percentile comprises students with more marks than the bottom 90%, and so on. It does not mean they have 90% marks.
”In 2016, general category students with just 148 marks, or 20.6%, in NEET were admitted to a private college in Uttar Pradesh which is a deemed university. As many as 30 of the 100 students this institution admitted had less than 25% marks in NEET. A Puducherry college admitted 14 students with less than 21% marks, the lowest being 20.1%. Some students admitted in the reserved categories had even lower marks,” the report added.
With about 60,000 MBBS seats available across India, there were about 10 eligible students for every seat. A large number of students with poor scores but deep pockets bought their way in while many high-scoring middle-class or poor students were left out.
Medical colleagues feel that the quality of education is being compromised because of this issue.
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