Australian Blogger Reviews India's NEET Exam, Finds It Extremely Difficult And Competitive

Every year over 13 lakh students appear for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), which is a national-level Medical Entrance Examination for aspirants who wish to pursue MBBS/BDS courses in various government or private medical colleges affiliated by the Medical Council of India.

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The exam is held in a single session in offline mode i.e. it's a pen and paper based exam. NEET exam is usually conducted in the month of May. The exam duration is three hours. It consists of a single paper with 180 objective-type Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs). Each question has four options of which only one is the correct answer.

To give people a peek into just how hard the NEET paper, Australian vlogger named Toby, posted a YouTube video reviewing different aspects of the paper that¡¯s set for undergraduate students across the county.

In the video Toby sets four criteria for judging the paper and they are scope, difficulty, time pressure and competitiveness.

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For those who might slam her for judging a paper that doesn¡¯t even belong to her county, Toby defends her stand saying, ¡®I am no one to be judging this paper, I am an Australian and never had to sit this exam but I am someone who has completed my own undergraduate degree and looking at other people¡¯s exams has become a bit of an interest of mine.¡¯

In an earlier video that took the Internet by storm, Toby weighed in on the difficulty levels of the IIT JEE exams for which she interviewed multiple professors from the University of Melbourne to grab an understanding of how hard the paper and the viability of judging students by the way its set.

For understanding the NEET exams, she picks out the paper set in May 2019 for which 13 lakh candidates had appeared. In the first part of the paper, that is biology, Toby observes that there¡¯s no clear separation of topics and it¡¯s a mixed bag of questions which can throw a student off balance.

One of the questions in the biology section deals with discarding environmental waste and leaves her tad bit amused with the options that were given. The question of how to discard nuclear waste had an option which read ¡®shooting the waste into space¡¯ which of course is not the correct answer.

She says, ¡°these questions would have you to do a lot of reading and memorisation of biological ideas beforehand because it¡¯s not possible to give answers if it isn¡¯t already at the top of your head.¡¯

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The physics section similarly has questioned jammed into one place without any sort of categorisation which Toby points can be very confusing. ¡°It¡¯s sad because a student is forced to cram so many theories before the exams without having the time to appreciate all the interesting theories that exist.¡± The chemistry section is equally complicated with a whole host of topics that thrown into the paper for the students to solve in a mere 3 hour time period.

From being extremely competitive to giving students a limited time to complete a physic paper without a calculator, the NEET paper according Toby abounds in loopholes.

But in contrast to what we¡¯ve seen in the video above, Navin C Joshi, Academic head and VP (NEET and JEE) at Gradeup told IndiaToday that this years NEET was ¡°was between easy to moderate level. There were no surprises in the exam and no section was particularly difficult.¡±

"Out of the total 45 questions in Physics, 9 weare tricky, 25 of medium difficulty level and 7 were easy," IndiaToday quoted Rajshekhar Ratrey, VP, Educational Content, Toppr.com as saying.