Tamil Nadu saw a boom in coaching centers for NEET preparation, as any competitive exam would encourage commercialization of coaching culture and professional potential. However, the high fee structure of these coaching centers only benefits the wealthy and urban candidates, whereas 95% of the Tamil Nadu State Board of Secondary Education students cannot afford it.
NS’Impact of NEET on Medical Admission in Tamil NaduThe report shows that Tamil Nadu has more than 400 active coaching centers with a total turnover of around Rs 5,750 crore, which is spent exclusively on NEET.
The total number of applications during 2019-20 shows that 1% of students did not attend coaching while 99% attended coaching classes. In 2019-2020, 88% were allotted seats and 12% were non-allocated.
It has also been seen in the report that the majority of MBBS seats for NEET aspirants are increasing continuously. This is also a major cause of concern for a country that is low on socio-economic parameters. The average admission rate of repeaters in Pre-NEET was 8.12%, which rose to 71.42% after NEET in 2020-21.
The report said that with the increase in repeaters seeking admissions, this is a matter of concern. “If this trend is observed with other parameters, the most favorable combination parameters facilitating the development of repeaters include urban locality of students, medium of instruction-English, higher level of parental education, higher parenting income, and private schooling,” the report said. it makes NEET “Anti-Social, Anti-Deprivation and Anti-Education” And this is only for affluent families, it adds.
The coaching culture has resulted in the establishment of large scale coaching factories in India and Tamil Nadu. As per reports, there is a retail coaching franchise which offers a wide variety of coaching services like 5 Year Package, 2 Year Package, 1 Year Package, 3 Month and 2 Month Crash Course with different slabs of fees. Huh. This makes the coaching market a billion-dollar industry.
Talking about the economics of NEET coaching classes, the report states that the cost of a student to higher secondary education and admission coaching classes at a popular center in Rajasthan is at least Rs 5 lakh.
When the implementation of NEET became mandatory in Tamil Nadu, there was an increase in the number of coaching institutes “operating under the legal shield of the school” in the state. Also 99% of the students who got admission in the year 2019-20 had received prior training before NEET.
Access to these centers is based on socio-economic and urban-rural factors. “Short-term and long-term fee structure of popular coaching firms” reveals who benefits – thriving.
The structure shows that the range of crash course fee for one month is Rs 10,000 – 38,000, for one year (short term) it is Rs 30,000 – 1,50,000, and for four years (long term) it is Rs 2,50,000 – 4,50,000.
Based on this and based on the data of repeaters, the average cost of coaching a student came to Rs 95,033, thus the average annual income of a center per year is 13,95,32,202.
The committee also noted that the actual fees (excluding capitation or illegal surcharges levied by private colleges) to be paid by medical students for studies in both government and private medical colleges would be much less than the money spent on coaching. ,” the report stated.
Learning is finished and exam-taking training is seen as the focus, this, in turn, makes doctors “extended machines in the health system”, encouraging test-taking repeaters.
The coaching culture inspired by NEET has been observed to have an impact on the ‘achieved potential’ during schooling, which is considered important for preparing good doctors during their studies. “This means that the ability to be acquired during schooling is a prerequisite for studying medicine, which has been completely eroded by the growing coaching culture due to NEET,” the report said.
Further, the report states that due to the implementation of NEET, More students opted to study in CBSE instead of TNBSE Since most of the syllabus of Medical Admission is based on CBSE syllabus.
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