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Drop year is becoming a buzzword among students who are appearing for the final board exams and who have already appeared for final board exams, competitive exams like NEET , JEE.

In this post, we will discuss on what is drop year, who are the potential students who decide to take a drop year. We will also cover the advantages and disadvantages of drop year. We will also help understand whether is it really worthwhile to go ahead with a drop year.

Drop year means a student deciding that he is not going to join the college in the next academic year and instead will continue to write the competitive exam like NEET or JEE exam once again. We have come across students taking up drop years for even 3 years continuously.

Who are the potential drop year students :

1. students who want to pursue MBBS based on NEET scores
2. Students who want to join IIT based on JEEE scores
3. Students who want to join Engineering in reputed colleges like NIT wherein admissions are based on JEE scores.
4. Students who have taken up the above mentioned competitive exams but did not get the desired scores suitable for them to get admissions in their preferred colleges

Advantages of drop year :

1. Students get additional one more year to prepare for the competitive exam
2. Students have gained the experience of writing the competitive exams and an opportunity to correct their mistakes in their next attempt
3. Their chances of improving the scores in NEET /JEE or others

Disadvantages of drop year :

1. They will have to keep themselves motivated and study on their own or through the coaching centres
2. They loose one or many years of valuable experience and thereby Seniority
3. There can also be possibilities of their scores becoming lesser compared to the previous year
4. Competition will become tough each year compared to previous year

If a student aspires to pursue MBBS , he has to understand that MBBS alone will not be sufficient in the competitive world. He /she has to be prepared to spend at least 10 years in pursuing higher degrees to be a qualified doctor. Under such circumstances, drop year is going to widen the gap further between him and his colleagues .

A better option would be to take up alternative medicine like Siddha, Homeopathy etc. with his NEET scores and take up post graduation in that stream.

We have also seen trends were students do not even apply for admission after seeing their NEET scores. However there have been several instances of even MBBS vacancies coming up due to admitted students moving to their home state or other states due to multiple reasons. Many of these students who had not applied , would have got MBBS admissions had they continued with the admission process.

Similarly in the case of IIT , if students fail to get admission for B. Tech courses in IIT , they can always join some other Engineering college complete Engineering and later join IIT for Post Graduation or Doctorate.

Hence our suggestion is to always look at alternative options rather than taking up a drop Year.

Please consider a drop year only iff :

1. You have exhausted all alternate options
2. Even in the case of a drop year, you will not spend beyond 1 year in chasing your dream