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In four years, records show, the number of students from Tamil Nadu who were in the top 95 percentile of students qualifying NEET has doubled.
In four years, records show, the number of students from Tamil Nadu who were in the top 95 percentile of students qualifying NEET has doubled. This, as the number of students from TN who take NEET has grown by 7.38 per cent from 2019 to 2022 — the corresponding national figure is 16.3 per cent.
In 2017-18, a Supreme Court ruling making NEET the only single-window examination for entry into any medical school in the country came into effect. Before NEET, admission to medical colleges in Tamil Nadu was mainly based on board marks.
Since 2017, the state has tried to exempt itself from the exam. Not allowing NEET was the electoral promise of the ruling DMK party. Chief Minister M K Stalin introduced a Bill in the Assembly seeking exemption for Tamil Nadu students from NEET which was unanimously passed and now awaits the President’s assent.
Data obtained by The Indian Express from the National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts NEET, shows that the number of students from the state who figured among the top scorers has doubled in four years.
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