students who appeared for the national eligibility cum entrance test post graduate neet pg at st joseph college of engineering in sriperumbudur on sunday faced delays and multiple disruptions due to technical glitches and power cutsas per the guidelines released by national board of examinations nbe the computerbased examination was scheduled to be held from 9am to 1230pm and candidates were asked to arrive at the exam centre by 7am but at the said centre in chennais suburbsthe exam did not start on time we were told that there was a technical glitch and the exam started only at 11 am within a matter of a few minutes the systems went off due to another glitch and once again halfway through the exam there was a power cut which lasted for nearly 20 minutes said a candidate requesting anonymitythough tangedco clarified that there was no scheduled or unscheduled power cut the nbe could not be reached for comment the test ended only around 245pm at this particular centre some candidates who had spent one full year preparing for neet came out with teary eyes as they could not perform well due to poor efforts made by nbe and the private company roped in to organise the test in tn a parent who waited outside the college the entire day said students were already under stress because the schedule was not confirmed till the last minute they organisers dont understand the effort that goes in preparing they havent done any quality checks of exam centres ideally they should compensate for the mess they have done here a case is pending before the supreme court on petitions filed by a few neet pg aspirants to postpone it as some doing internships found it difficult to find time to prepare only last week the court dismissed this pleafacebooktwitterlinkedinend of article10910131298799128