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It wasn’t fun being a student in May. How Indian media covered chaos of NEET, CBSE, CUET-UG

CBSE also has the dubious distinction of making headlines in foreign news media: UK’s The Guardian and BBC, Singapore’s The Straits Times wrote about the school scandal.

First came the NEET leaks. Then, CBSE’s on-screen marking system malfunctioned. Finally, CUET-UG’s glitches. It wasn’t fun being a student in May.

It has taken the outrage of students and parents, the enterprise of at least three intrepid young men, and the combined efforts of social and news media to explain what exactly went wrong here, and forced the government to (re)act.

The CBSE Chairman and Secretary have been shifted—or is it ‘shunted’ as Hindustan Times wrote in its 3 June headline? And, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is “personally supervising” the NEET issue.

None of this will help the aspiring students who are stranded in no-man’s land—waiting nervously for new examination dates, or for the reevaluation of their test papers. However, the spotlight has given us a clear insight into the failures of the systems that were supposed to work.

Also read: In India’s NEET and CBSE exam crisis, the only adults in the room have been children

The news media have played their role in several ways. Basically, that of the supporting actor, to the key players in each failure.

Take the case of CBSE’s OSM snags.

Leading English newspapers and TV news were full of the school exam scandal.

Let’s........

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