Ever since the new cut-off for the NEET PG, entrance exam for post-graduate courses, was released by the Medical Counseling Committee (MCC), it has caused anxiety among the students.
Earlier the cut-off used to be 291 marks for unreserved students and 257 for the reserved categories with 800 being the maximum marks. But, this year, MCC revised the criterion and now students who got zero percentile in the exam could get admission in colleges as well. That means if someone is getting even negative marks but his percentile is above 5, he could apply for a seat.
Experts and students have criticized this move saying that this would take away the opportunity from deserving candidates, especially in private medical colleges where seats are allotted on the basis of management quota.
Around 700 candidates appeared in the counseling with the NRI quota and 390 of them got a seat in the third round. Many of those seats belonged to the private colleges. This just proves that people with money could easily contact the private college in advance and book the seats.
Government said that it was done in an attempt to fill all the PG seats in all the colleges as many non-clinical branches like Anatomy and Physiology are looked over by students during counseling in Private colleges as they cost too much and aren’t directly related to what the society perceives as a doctor.
If students with marks in single digit are getting admissions in medical colleges, only God could save our healthcare!
