Saturday, June 22, 2024

Designed for scams.

"The National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate), or NEET-UG is the gateway to studying medicine in the country, as its score is necessary for getting admission to a medical college. It is conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA), a government organisation which holds some of India's biggest exams. Millions of students take the exam every year, but only a small percentage get good enough marks to secure a college placement. But this year the challenge is somewhat different: too many candidates have got top marks, pushing down the ranking system and making it hard for even high-scorers to get admission." BBC. "The Patna Police has arrested seven people, including four candidates, in connection with the NEET-UG question paper leak case." 'A problem-solver gang' charged Rs 3.2 million to leak the papers. India Today. "An anonymous whistleblower's seemingly vague tip-off to Patna Police about 'four suspected criminals in an SUV headed to a safe house' around three hours before NEET-UG got underway on May 5 was the starting point for the unraveling of a suspected nationwide network of fraud." TOI. No honor among thieves (idioms), perhaps. As a result, "The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test Postgraduate (NEET PG) Examination, initially set for today, June 23, has been postponed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare." HT. Shouldn't it be the Ministry of Education? Examination scams are almost routine in India. The Vyapam scam, exposed in 2013 in Madhya Pradesh, involved at least 13 different exams and thousands of students and had been going on since the 1990s. wikipedia. "The scam also led to between 23 and 40 'unnatural' deaths of involved individuals, though unofficial figures run well into more than 100 custodial deaths including the erstwhile MP Governor's son and deaths in staged road accidents." wikipedia. Nobody has been convicted, let alone hanged, for this possible genocide of would-be informants. The real disease is that "Even though almost 10 million graduates pass out every year, 42.3% of graduates under the age of 25 years remain unemployed." "Paper leaks for government recruitment have become a norm. In the last seven years, at least 70 paper leak cases have shattered the dreams of more than 20 million students," wrote Rachit Seth. In many subjects colleges select candidates based on their school leaving, or Board, exam marks so Boards are inflating the marks of their students to ensure their admission into colleges. "Today, it is common for the highest score in each subject to be 100% or very close, often with the overall highest score also nearly 100%. A few Boards display the highest percentage in their exams across years on their websites," wrote Sridhar Rajagopalan. Controlling education is to control minds. "By controlling the choice of the nation's doctors, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration is pushing its hard-right Hindu agenda into the heart of the nation's health and education systems," wrote Andy Mukherjee. Health has no religion. God doesn't die. Individuals do.   

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