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Saturday, May 30, 1998
Keep English out of entrance test: Parishad
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
AURANGABAD, May 29: The Marathwada Janata Vikas Parishad, lead by Padmavibhushan Govind Shroff, says the proposed common entrance examination for admission to medical and dental courses in the State should not include English in its syllabus and urged the State Government not to conduct the qualifying test in haste. At a press conference, Shroff said that the exam should comprise papers in physics, chemistry and biology only, as merit should be decided on the basis of these subjects alone as per the Supreme Court's order last year.He said the syllabus should be patterned on the one prescribed for the Higher Secondary Certificate exam as students will get barely a month to prepare for the qualifying exam. Any change would be unfair, he pointed out. Shroff, along with freedom fighter Vijendra Kabra, said that introducing a paper in English is neither obligatory nor is it a practice elsewhere in the country. Moreover, it would also be unfair to insist on a 50 per cent score in the subject, he said. Copyright © 1998 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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