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Mumbai Mirror article dt 14 NOV 2011 about Maharashtra national medical entrance NEET instead of MHT-CET

November 15, 2011 By Prof. Rohan Shenoy 2 Comments

Popular daily newspaper Mumbai Mirror has carried out a report on page 4 of its daily dated 14 NOV 2011 which can be found online here. The report seems to have caused confusion and panic among some students. Therefore, I have written this article to explain what it means and why students should not worry about MHT-CET being replaced by NEET for april-may 2012 medical entrance.

Its just that Supreme Court has told the Maharashtra State that they should have approached the High Court instead. According to the rules, a matter which is proceeded in the Supreme Court cannot be proceeded in any lower Court. Hence, in order to allow the High Court to proceed the matter, the Maharashtra State has withdrawn its petition from the Supreme Court and is now preparing to approach the High Court.

It is important to note that Supreme court has not dismissed the State’s petition. Had this occurred, our students would have to compulsorily appear for NEET. Some students have misunderstood this and are carrying the impression that Supreme Court has rejected the State’s petition – which is actually not the case.

I urge all students to not panic and instead ignore all news about NEET 2012. Its a shame that MCI does not have the common sense to realize how far to take things!

Filed Under: News & Analysis Tagged With: DMER, MCI, MHT-CET scrapped, NEET, single national CET

Finally answered: MHT-CET 2012 or single national medical entrance exam(single CET)?

July 23, 2011 By Prof. Rohan Shenoy 23 Comments

Medical Council of India(MCI) has finalized the syllabus of Std. XI and Std. XII for NEET MBBS entrance exam. NEET is the proposed replacement for all state-level medical(MBBS) entrance examinations such as MHT-CET, K-CET, GUJ-CET, G-CET, etc. The syllabus has been outlined by NCERT and a copy of it can be downloaded from here.

Comparing the syllabus as outlined in the MCI-NCERT draft with the newly published textbook of Std. XI of Maharashtra State Board, one will find that not only all topics of core syllabus have been covered in the new textbook, but even additional topics have been covered. Thus it appears that all state boards have an obligation to comply with the core syllabus but at the same time have freedom to extend it as per their discretion. That is, the state board exams will be based on the entire textbook but NEET will be based only on the core syllabus.

However, the syllabus of the XII of Maharashtra is not as per the guidelines. Since the current academic year has already started, the syllabus cannot be implemented this year. To confirm this, the Maharashtra State Board has already clarified on its official website that the new core syllabus will be effective for Std. XII from academic year 2012 – 2013 only, and not 2011 – 2012.

Bottom line is that students appearing for CET in 2012 should leave all worries about whether there will be MHT-CET or single national CET in 2012. MHT-CET will be there in 2012.

A leading newspaper reported that MCI is going to conduct the NEET exam in May 2012. It should be noted that this reference is made to the NEET exam of post-graduate courses(MD or MS) and not under-graduate or UG courses such as MBBS. NEET(UG) will come from 2013 only.

It however remains unanswered whether admissions to other health science courses such as dental, ayurved, homeopath, physiotherapy, etc. will be based on which exam.

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