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Maharashtra NEET aspirants cry foul

Several students from Maharashtra have pointed out stark differences between the English version of the paper and the bilingual one — English-Marathi

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A day after the West Bengal government alleged that the paper for National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) aspirants in Bengali was different from that of their counterparts appearing the exam in English, several candidates writing the paper in Marathi have now come up with similar complaints.

Several students from Maharashtra have 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.

"I opted for a bilingual paper at NEET. It was difficult as compared to that of the last year. Later, I was shocked to find that my classmates found the paper easy. After seeing their paper, I realised that almost 85% questions did not match those in mine," said an aspirant from Andheri.

Students 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. "NEET is supposed to be a centralised exam; while the arrangement of questions can be different, having different papers altogether is unfair for students," said Sudha Shenoy, parent of an aspirant.

Students said that the set code of the paper was not uniform and there were different sets of questions as per the paper code. "Candidates who opted for English-Hindi had the code 'TARA' on their paper, while those opting for English-Marathi had 'PITA' on theirs. Both these papers barely had any similarity," said an aspirant.

A CBSE official said that the board might have given different sets to ensure that there is no leak. "Students need not worry as the difficulty level remains the same," said the official.

Language matters

Starting this year, the CBSE has started conducting the NEET exam in 10 different languages. Regional languages like Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Odia and Kannada were also added to the list apart from the already existing Hindi and English. Some students are now demanding a re-exam citing that the CBSE is expected to maintain a uniform standard for setting papers.

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