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Medicine is one of the coveted professional degrees in India which is highly aspired by the Indian students and parents for almost 2 to 3 decades, now. It has become a tradition of choosing their professional career as their born-goal. And this tradition has turned the education into a high demand and expensive field of study. So, the admission system had made competitive that +2 cut off marks were made important to enter the government medical colleges and it had paved way to the private medical colleges into existence and the medical admission counselling process, tough.<\/p>\n

The students who couldn\u2019t enter into the government medical colleges, opted for the private medical colleges and eventually.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The students who couldn\u2019t enter into the government medical colleges, opted for the private medical colleges and eventually, the medical aspirants number increased so is the private medical colleges and the fees of MBBS degree in India. And so, the most prestigious government medical institution in India such as All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and JIPMER had their own separate entrance examinations.<\/p>\n

The Gap in the Medical Admissions in India<\/h2>\n

After a decade and more, now, the Government of India and the Ministry of Human Resource Development has established National Testing Agency which conducts and regulates the only nation-wide medical entrance known as National Entrance cum Eligibility Test (NEET) to enroll for all medical degrees (MBBS\/BDS) in both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The NEET examination is based on the NCERT\/CBSE board of education. CBSE schools are comparatively expensive in the country.<\/p>\n

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Medicine is one of the coveted professional degrees in India, which is highly aspired by the Indian students and parents for almost 2 to 3 decades, now. It has become a tradition of choosing their professional career as their born-goal. And this tradition has turned the education into a high demand and expensive field of study. So, the admission system had made competitive that +2 cut off marks were made essential to enter the government medical colleges and it had paved way to the private medical colleges into existence and the medical admission counselling process, challenging. The students who couldn't enter into the government medical colleges opted for the private medical colleges and eventually, the medical aspirants' number increased so is the private medical colleges and the fees of MBBS degree in India. And so, the most prestigious government medical institution in India such as All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and JIPMER had their separate entrance examinations.<\/p>\n

Statistics in Medical Admissions in India<\/h2>\n

The Government of India and the Ministry of Human Resource Development has established the National Testing Agency which conducts and regulates the only nation-wide medical entrance known as National Entrance cum Eligibility Test (NEET). It is led to enrol for all medical degrees (MBBS\/BDS) in both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The NEET examination is based on the NCERT\/CBSE board of education. CBSE schools are comparatively expensive in the country.<\/p>\n

In 2019, 13 lakhs students attended the 12th board exam in India. But in the year, the number of students who appeared for NEET exam was 14,10,755. This shows that the students who couldn't get pass percentile in the previous NEET exams since 2016 had been repeating the NEET in 2019 too. In 2018, only 7,14,562 students passed in NEET exam, out of 12,69,922 students written the exam. Only 7,97,042 out of 14,10,755 students had secured pass percentile in the 2019 NEET exam which is 56.49 per cent. So almost 44.51% of the medical aspirants had to wait for one more year to appear in the NEET 2020 or to join in some other degree programs only because they couldn't clear the NEET.<\/p>\n

In Tamilnadu, 4202 students had joined medical studies in 2019 out of which, 2916 (70%) were old students, i.e., the aspirants of NEET from 2016, 2017 & 2018.<\/p>\n