New Delhi: The Supreme Court has recently issued a notice regarding a plea challenging the NEET SS 2022 Exam pattern. The plea seeks direction to restrain the National Board of Examinations from excluding or deleting MD Radiation Oncology/ MD Radiotherapy from the eligibility criteria for the Super Speciality course of DM Medical Oncology in the NEET SS 2022 Exam.
Additionally, the plea also has challenged the changed NEET SS examination pattern which will now include 150 questions from the general or basic component of the primary feeder broad speciality subject from all the sub-speciality/ systems/ components of that primary feeder broad speciality subject.
“Change skews the level playing field for the candidates belonging to different broad specialties... as it confers undue advantage upon some, and lowers the chances of others to excel in the examination,”, as the plea filed through advocate Javedur Rahman states.
Referring to the earlier pattern of the paper which had 40% mixed questions from all the board specialities and 60% questions from Critical Care (the Super-Speciality subject), the petitioners have stated that this pattern had ensured a level playing ground for all the candidates. The new pattern, contrarily, seems to force all the candidates from the broad specialities to write a single paper where 100% questions from General Medicine.
“There will be no questions from broad specialties of the other four post-graduate branches. The pattern is not just a waste of time and effort for all those who have prepared for Critical Care but also grossly biassed against a few broad specialties, particularly in favour of MD Medicine in so far as the choice of options is far greater vis-a-vis the choices available to either MD Radiation Oncology or MD Anaesthesia”, as explained by the plea.
The problem is that the new pattern will make some candidates write a paper without any question from their postgraduate broad speciality while some others will have 100% questions from their postgraduate broad speciality syllabus. Therefore, the petitioners have termed the new pattern as a complete waste of time, energy and resources of the candidates preparing for the exam for months.
Arguing on behalf of the petitioners, Senior Advocate Shyam Divan stated in front of the bench of justices DY Chandrachud and PS Narasimha that the petitioners had approached authorities earlier to make changes to the Postgraduate Medical Education Regulation 2021.
Earlier, the Supreme Court had criticised the Central Government for initiating last minute changes to the exam pattern of NEET SS 2021 exam. Following the criticism, the authority decided to implement the new pattern from this year only.
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