Students Want Exams At Any Cost": Education Minister Cites Numbers
The minister said maximum students and parents have conveyed through mails and other mediums that they are in favour to hold the JEE, NEET exams.
New Delhi: Amid a big row over examinations amid the coronavirus pandemic, Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal these days stated 7.5 lakh of 8.58 lakh candidates for Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) and over 10 lakh of 15.97 lakh candidates for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) have downloaded admit cards, which shows that the college students choose "exams at any cost".
The minister stated most college students and mother and father have conveyed thru mails and different mediums that they are in favour to preserve the all-India entrance assessments for engineering and scientific publications that have already been postponed twice.
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"National Testing Agency Director General informed me that 7.5 lakhs out of 8.58 lakhs candidates in JEE have downloaded admit cards. For NEET, over 10 lakhs out of 15.97 lakhs candidates downloaded admit playing cards in 24 hrs. It indicates that college students desire that assessments are held at any cost," Mr Pokhriyal said.
Allaying fears of the students' safety, the minister stated the National Testing Agency, which is tasked through the central authorities with conducting entrance checks for greater academic institutions, has organized desirable hints and SOPs and is additionally preserving commonplace conferences with the states for higher coordination.
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"JEE examination centres have been expanded to 660 from 570 whilst there are now 3,842 NEET centres, up from 2,546 for the comfort of students. Students have additionally been dispensed examination centres of their choice," the minister said.
The National Test Agency says if the entrance assessments are postponed further, they will put college students of authorities faculties at a drawback as in opposition to personal university college students who do now not want to show up for aggressive tests and have already started out an on line module.
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Last week the Supreme Court pushed aside a petition to defer these exams. The pinnacle courtroom declared that "careers of college students should no longer be put in jeopardy".
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