This shit is so crazy. A bit of an old news but I don't know if people outside of India caught wind of this.
The National Testing Agency (NTA), an autonomous body under India’s Ministry of Education that is responsible for holding the nationwide examinations, is at the centre of these controversies over the integrity of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), a national exam for medical aspirants held last month.
There are two NEET exams, one for undergrad and one for postgrad. The former was held but the results have been scrapped. The latter has been postponed. The postponement was announced the night before the exam.
The scale of foul play is something that I have not been able to wrap my head around mostly because I have not read the news articles about this recently. There were reports of some participants getting marks that were mathematically impossible and shit like that.
"Autonomous bodies" have become an extension of the ruling party. For example, BJP uses the Election Commision to arrest opposition leaders and freeze the funds of opposition parties. I wouldn't be surprised if the NTA was chock full of deadbeat BJP lackeys. Truly a terrible time to be an Indian right now.
Hot take: Medical school should not require any sort of entrance exam or lower degree. Medical school should be the same as trade school, no applying, no MCAT, you just register and begin the program. Extend it by two years to cover the important material expected to be covered by an undergrad degree, and just allow people to sign up
Entrance exams do not in any way actually measure someone’s ability to be a doctor. Neither do half the classes they have to take in undergrad, and certainly not all the extracurricular shit they have to do to make their resumes ridiculously competitive.
All these restrictions do is cause a doctor shortage while clogging up university science classes with the dumbest rich kid yes men you’ve ever met who constantly delayed class ending by not understanding homework instructions and crying if they got an A- because that could mean not getting into med school.
I’m sure this is at least somewhat different in India just judging by the number of Indian immigrant doctors in the US, but I guess part of the way they’ve handled it is just intense corruption
I suspect the number of Indian immigrant doctors abroad is due to brain drain rather than an abundance of doctors/lack of need in India.