🩺 At a glance:
The Supreme Court just slammed the two-shift schedule for NEET PG 2025, calling it “arbitrary and unfair”. Why? Because your future as a doctor shouldn’t depend on whether your MCQ paper was held at 9AM or 2PM. With AIIMS-level pressure and railway-platform-level crowd management, India’s medical dream factory might just need an urgent surgery itself.
🧠 What’s the issue, doc?
Here’s the situation, scalpel-sharp:
- NEET PG 2025 is scheduled in two shifts.
- One candidate writes their paper in the morning.
- Another writes in the afternoon.
- Both compete for the same rank list.
Result?
👉 Paper difficulty may vary.
👉 Normalization process = mystery.
👉 Anxiety = 12/10.
👉 Justice = 🤷
Even the Supreme Court seems to be asking: “Is this MBBS or lottery ticket distribution?”
🧑⚖️ What did the Supreme Court say?
In classic courtroom sarcasm (they’re catching on to the EduInvesting tone), Justice Vikram Nath remarked:
“Why have two shifts? It creates arbitrariness. You’re comparing two different papers and evaluating them on the same scale.”
Translation: You can’t have two players bowling on two different pitches and then compare strike rates.
And here’s the punchline:
“We want to understand the rationale behind holding two shifts in the same exam on the same day.”
Spoiler: There probably isn’t one. Except, of course, logistical jugaad.
🧪 NBE’s defense: “We do normalization”
The National Board of Examinations (NBE), the same folks who brought you:
- Technical glitches
- Server crashes
- Heart attacks in coaching hostels
…told the court that they “normalize scores” between the two
