Maharashtra NEET aspirants cry foul
A day after the West Bengal government alleged that the paper for National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) aspirants in Bengali was different from that of their counterparts appearing the exam in English, several candidates writing the paper in Marathi have now come up with similar complaints.
Several students from Maharashtra have pointed out stark differences between the English version of the paper and the bilingual one — English-Marathi. The difference, as per students, was not only in the questions but also with respect to their difficulty level.
“I opted for a bilingual paper at NEET. It was difficult as compared to that of the last year. Later, I was shocked to find that my classmates found the paper easy. After seeing their paper, I realised that almost 85% questions did not match those in mine,” said an aspirant from Andheri.
Students also said while they expected that there would be multiple sets of question papers (which means that the sequence of questions is different but the questions remain the same), they did not expect an altogether different paper across languages. “NEET is supposed to be a centralised exam; while the arrangement of questions can be different, having different papers altogether is unfair …read more