Dear friends, Every year millions of students take the National Eligibility Test (NET), which is mandatory for lectureship and award of junior research fellowship. Since the examinees are not allowed to keep the question paper, future aspirants often had a hard time preparing for the exam. But not anymore. They can now file an RTI application and get hold of the old test papers. The good news does not end here. They can also take the bi-annual test online. In a landmark order, the Central Information Commission (CIC) said that since exams are supposed to test the fundamentals of the students and not their rote learning, making a question bank available would not make any difference to the examining bodies. http://indiatoday.intoday.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39455§ionid=20&secid=&issueid=104&latn=2&Itemid=1 With Best Regards, Romesh Chander National Center for Science Information(NCSI), Indian Institue of Science, Bangalore-560012. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.