Should NTA Postpone NEET and JEE Exams? or Should students voluntarily decide whether or not to take exams?

Not even a month later, students are demanding that NTA postpone NEET and JEE exams. Last month, after a lot of arguing, petitions and cases, NTA decided to postpone these two entrance exams. Why one may ask? The reason is simple: Rising COVID-19 cases.

For the past few weeks, India has almost 50,000 cases every day. Even though the recoveries are better than most countries, the National Testing Authority cannot choose to put students' lives at risk. But then again, they can't cancel exams as without these, how can a college decide who to take for medicine, what division in engineering?

Thus, these exams are necessary. So students are trending their views again.

But this time the student community is quite divided.

First, let us know what you think:

NEET and JEE aspirants are taking to Twitter to run a mass campaign on 6th August. They will tweet their pleas to postpone these exams. Further, the group of parents have written to the Education Minister, Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’. They are demanding the postponement of the JEE exams for engineering and NEET for medicine scheduled in September, to December. The exams have already been postponed twice from April to July to September. What session should have already begun from August, the pandemic has messed up all the academic calendar.

Keeping both points ahead, if NTA postponed NEET and JEE again, then students have to step back a year. But if they take exams, then we have seen what happened in Kerala and Karnataka. The government will be putting students at risk and a massive explosion of cases.

Also, if they postpone the exams, the students may get more time to study in a less stressful way. They may remain safe from COVID-19, but not from the gap year that will fall on them. So, should NEET and JEE exams be made voluntary?