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The episode discusses systemic failures in the Indian education system, focusing on exam leaks and their impact on students' futures.

1. A single leak is a crime. A repeated leak is a system failure. After the 2024 NEET leak, the Radhakrishnan Committee gave roughly 95 fixes — about 60 short-term and 35 long-term — most of them reported as already implemented. Yet NEET-UG 2026 still had to be scrapped, with the Supreme Court itself observing that the agency had not learnt its lesson. When reform is announced but not delivered, the fault is no longer the question paper. It is accountability. 2. Two failures, one diagnosis: a broken gate at entry and at exit. In a single fortnight we saw a paper leak at the entrance gate — NEET — and a marking fiasco at the exit gate — the CBSE Class-12 On-Screen Marking, where students say the scanned answer-sheets do not even match their own handwriting. Some 18.5 million CBSE students; over 80 lakh NTA candidates a year. This is not bad luck twice. It is one institutional weakness showing up at both ends of a child’s career. 3. An exam is the price of a year of a young Indian’s life — and we are taxing it twice. A cancelled NEET, a re-test on 21 June, a disputed board result — each is lost time, lost fees, lost confidence, compounding. And this lands on a generation where…

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