Students from across the country had said that the English exam was much tougher than the regional language one
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday restrained the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) from declaring the results of National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) until June 7.
The court granted interim injunction on the ground that different question papers set for NEET held in 10 languages would lead to discrimination among students.
Earlier, a group of nine students from Madurai had filed a writ petition seeking a direction to the Central government to cancel the NEET conducted on May 7 for admission to undergraduate medical courses. They argued that the CBSE, by framing different question papers, had denied them a level playing field. Instead, the Board could have translated a common question paper.
In an affidavit filed on behalf of the students, it was stated that all of them had written the NEET in English on the basis of uniform syllabus. However, they learned subsequently that the question paper was not uniform across the country.
The petition claimed that the paper in Tamil was much easier than in English. Students from West Bengal and Maharashtra had also pointed out stark differences between the English version of the paper and the bilingual one — English-Marathi. The difference, as per students, was not only in the questions but also with respect to their difficulty level.
Several students from Maharashtra had pointed out stark differences between the English version of the paper and the bilingual one — English-Marathi. The difference, as per students, was not only in the questions but also with respect to their difficulty level.
Students had also said while they expected that there would be multiple sets of question papers (which means that the sequence of questions is different but the questions remain the same), they did not expect an altogether different paper across languages.
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