The controversy around National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for medical admissions has come as a shock to those students who have secured good marks. One such aspirant is Kartikeya Gupta from Lucknow. He secured 685 marks out of 720, and was hoping to get into a good college. But with coaching institutes, parents and some students taking the legal route and demanding the entrance exam to be re-conducted, the youngster is anxious about the future. The Supreme Court has refused to defer the counselling date, scheduled for July 6.
"I am disturbed by what has happened. When a student prepares for exam, he/she has a date in mind. Nobody cares about what will happen after that. Nobody has a backup plan, all of us trust the government and the entire system that something like this will never happen," Kartikeya told NDTV.
"Now this uncertainty a month after the exam is making students like me nervous," he added.