The Supreme Court's directive last week on making National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) mandatory for admissions has spread panic among medical aspirants in Tamil Nadu. The state had abolished medical entrance exams nine years ago to make the admission process stress-free and to provide equal opportunity to high-scoring rural students. Before the top court's final verdict on the NEET exam on May 9, admissions in MBBS and BDS courses in the state used to take place on the basis of their class 12 scores.
