NEET’s switch from pen-and-paper to computer: damned if you do, damned if you don’t

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges and controversies surrounding the NEET exam's transition from paper to online format amid concerns of integrity and institutional capacity.

Two million students. One lakh twenty thousand seats. And a paper that leaked before anyone sat down to write it. This is the second NEET leak in two years. The National Testing Agency was created specifically to prevent this. A parliamentary panel had already warned, after last year's controversy, that the NTA was too dependent on private vendors and lacked the institutional capacity to run exams at this scale. The government's response: move the exam online by 2027. But NTA's own tech partners have a track record that makes that solution harder to trust than it sounds. Tune in. Daybreak is produced from the newsroom of The Ken, India’s first subscriber-only business news platform. Subscribe for more exclusive, deeply-reported, and analytical business stories.

People in this episode

Host: The Ken

Topics covered

• NEET exam
• education
• government policy
• online testing
• exam integrity

Keywords

• NEET
• National Testing Agency
• online exam
• exam leak
• education policy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: National Testing Agency

Places: India

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