The Indian Express ·
She beat hearing loss to crack NEET. How tech will help her use stethoscope
Vidhita uses a cochlear implant. She cannot hear with her ears, so she cannot use a conventional stethoscope.
For each of the 22 lakh candidates who took the NEET exam in May, the cancellation over a suspected paper leak was a massive blow. Among them was 17-year-old Vidhita Gupta; the development threatened her long-cherished dream, seen despite unimaginable odds. Born with congenital hearing loss, Vidhita was sure of a good score in the May test. She wondered: What if I cannot repeat it in the re-test?
But she did. Vidhita recently got admission to MP Shah Government Medical College in Gujarat’s Jamnagar. She is sure she would have ranked better in the May exam.
“I waited for the NEET result, but it never came. I was very disappointed and didn’t know what to do. I started looking at options such as nursing and physiotherapy and BSc. Then re-NEET happened. I was unhappy about the result because I believe I would have scored higher the first time,” said Vidhita, who wrote her tests in Gujarati.
