With accord to the draft of the National Educational Policy (NEP), the National Testing Agency, the Central government agency which conducts entrance examinations for higher educations, get readies to propose common entrance exams for all the undergraduate courses across the country that will replace the current admission criteria where the students who completed their higher secondary examinations would be admitted to the undergraduate courses through 12th marks. A draft of the National Educational Policy has been tabled to the Union Cabinet council carries the provision to implement such common entrance exams for all the courses like NEET which has become mandatory to pursue medical studies.

Through the draft, the National Testing Agency has claimed that it will work towards offering common entrance exams of high-quality multiple years for each year in the areas of languages, science, arts, quantitative and vocational subjects. It asserted that the common entrance exam would lower the possibilities of attending special coaching classes for clearing the exams as the students would be given with the options to choose the subjects which they wish to write and each university can ascertain the subject portfolio of the individual student towards admitting them based on their talents and interests.

As justifying the proposal, the draft has cited that these common entrance exams will enable universities and institutions with range, high quality and flexibility of the agency's testing services in the place of having different exams in different universities and the document claimed that by having the equal entrance exams, it will lessen the burden of the students, colleges and the education system.

Despite not being adopted and implemented and by citing the possibilities of more entrance exams for the students, it has brought in fierce responses across the country and the state of Tamil Nadu has sent strong notions in implementing the common entrance exams as the state has already been presented with odd disadvantages and disappointments over NEET that had directed severe episodes of controversies, accusations, and injustices among the poor and backward students.

The data that was submitted by the state government in Madras High court shows that only 2.1% of the students were able to clear the exams and secured the medical seats in government and self-financing medical colleges without attending the private coaching classes while the rest attained the ticket after multiple attempts. The data revealed that about 3081 students have secured MBBS seats in government colleges in 2019 and of those 3081, only 48 students have managed to avail seats without any private coaching and it was further known that about 1040 students have cleared the NEET in their first attempt while the rest took multiple attempts. 

After being stunned by the reports, Madras High court had questioned the Central government on keeping the exam into existence and the Justices Kirubakaran and Velmurugan have collectively noted that the doors of medical colleges have been closed to the poor students since they can't clear the exams by investing lakhs of money in coaching centers and further cited that the prevailing grounds of prejudice would bring more disadvantages for the rural students. While pronouncing their statements, the Justices have underlined that NEET has been treating unequals equally and added that the higher secondary students have been pressurized to study NEET exams along with the board exams.