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