Teachers say NEET Syllabus needs extra classes

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), New Delhi started receiving online application form for National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET UG 2013) for Undergraduate students for admission to MBBS / BDS courses across the country.

Students felt that tough to crack the NEET UG 2013 entrance exam for admission to MBBS / BDS courses. The teachers from Andhra Pradesh says that NEET syllabus needs 250 hours of additional classes to cover.

The expert committee appointed by the Board of Intermediate education to study the implications of NEET on AP Students has found that there are several topics in NEET that are not covered in the inter syllabus.

The committee has come to a conclusion that the inter syllabus for science subjects is no match for NEET, which is based on the NCERT syllabus. The outcome of this is that junior colleges will have to conduct over 250 additional classes from now to cover the NEET syllabus.

As compared NEET syllabus with Inter, the committee found that there was a deficiency of 14% in physics syllabus, 35% in Botany, 36% in zoology and 18% in chemistry.

The inter board decided to conduct training programmes for lecturers in junior colleges from this month end to apprise them of the variation in syllabus and the topics they need to cover to prepare students for NEET entrance exam. It has already sent circulars to principals to send their science teachers for orientation programmes.