With little time left, TN plans crash coaching for NEET

In addition to the elections and holidays, the government’s move to drop training classes came after several legal experts suggested the step citing the several cases against NEET still pending in the Supreme Court, said a senior official from the School Education Department, which has been entrusted the task of conducting the free coaching classes.

Though School Education Minister KA Sengottaiyan had said in January that NEET coaching would be conducted for government and aided school students in March, it was postponed due to total shutdown in view of the increase in the number of coronavirus cases in the State.

“With MHRD announcing that NEET exam 2020 will be held on July 26, there will be ample of time to resume the training sessions,” the official said, adding that the authorities would discuss the current situation and announce the schedule of the crash coaching session that would last about a week or ten days.

Pointing out that about 20,000 students in government and aided schools have registered for the free coaching classes, the official said all of them would be intimated about the fresh training session.

“At present, students have been asked to prepare through guides and other study material provided to them,” he said. Coaching centres would be set up in all the districts depending on the response from the students.

The training materials would soon be prepared with the help of academicians and experts, the official added.

It is another matter that though the government has been conducting free training, only 2,577 students from government and aided schools were able to pass the exam in 2019, and only four students scored above 400 marks.

In 2018, three government school students obtained seats in government medical colleges, while four others obtained admission at private colleges under State quota. In addition, 13 from aided schools received admission, taking the total count to 20 in 2018.