Roopsa Ghosh, a medical aspirant from Howrah, West Bengal was dazed when she come across news reports of capping the NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) attempts to three. She was supposed to take up NEET for the fourth time this year.
Roopsa started attempting for medical entrance examination back in 2014, but she couldn’t quite succeed in securing enough marks to seal a government medical college seat. “Belonging to a middle class family with a retired father from his private job, it was never an option for me to get into a private medical college,” said Roopsa.
When Roopsa couldn’t secure enough marks last year in her NEET examination to get admitted in a government medical college, her parents decided to send her for coaching. “My parents enrolled me at a coaching institute with all their savings and things were going pretty good. But suddenly this unexpected news made me tensed. Now I am not sure whether I would be able to sit for the examination after all the hard work that I have put so far,” said Roopsa.
She seemed quite unhappy with the sudden outbreak of the news of capping the attempts. She is against the fact that there are changes that are proposed for the NEET at the eleventh hour. “Last year as well, there was a ‘Court-Prime Minister- President’ drama happened, delaying the proceedings unnecessarily. By the time the results were out on August, all other study options for me were closed. It is then, that I decided to give it a last try this year,” pointed out Roopsa.
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Due to the delay in application notification, that was supposed be out by December 2016, she is worried that she might again loose a year. “I don’t know what is waiting for me in future, but I really want to get into a medical college and become a doctor. This is not only my dream but my parents’ too,” concluded Roopsa.