Students aiming to study undergraduate medical courses in foreign universities should take National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), a move that will influence about two or three thousand students who apply for such courses in China, Russia and different nations every year.

After making the decision public, the Ministry got grievances of the students asking for that the individuals who have officially traveled to another country might be exempted from the requirement of qualifying NEET.
Consistently, around 7,000 students go outside India to study medican. The majority of the students go to China and Russia. "According to the information, the level of graduates who have considered abroad and have cleared the FMGE has run in the vicinity of 13 and 26.9 percent over the most recent five years.

This is extremely a matter of worry as they go out, spend lot of money of their parents and are not able to contribute to the healthcare in India once they return," an authority said.

"It has come to see that medical institutions/Universities of foreign countries concede Indian students without proper assessment or screening of the students' academic ability to cope up to medical education with the outcome that numerous students neglect to qualify the Screening Test," health ministry said.

""A common national entrance exam— NEET— is mandatory for admission to all medical courses in the country.""

"It talks a considerable measure about the quality of students and education, and what we are receiving consequently. At present, any individual who scores 50% is qualified to travel to another country to study medicine. Nowadays scoring 50% isn't difficult, which is the reason MCI proposed making NEET required," Singhal said.