u/DowntownBaseball4030

I recently read Sagan's 'Pale Blue Dot' and really loved this pargraph. Sagan was quite ahead of his time and truly believed and propagated ideas against misogyny, racism, xenophobia and jingoism especially amongst white Americans. I especially love the last line, which I think is so true for our people, and something the "sepoys" fail to understand.

"It almost never feels like prejudice. Instead, it seems fitting and just - the idea that because of an accident of birth, our group (whichever one it is) should have a central position in the social universe. Among Pharaonic princelings and Plantagenet pretenders, children of robber barons and Central Committee bureaucrats, street gangs and conquerors of nations, members of confident majorities, obscure sects and reviled minorities, this self-serving attitude seems as natural as breathing. It draws sustenance from the same psychic wellsprings as sexism, racism, nationalism, and the other deadly chauvinisms that plague our species. Uncommon strength of character is needed to resist the blandishments of those who assure us that we have an obvious -- even God-given -- superiority over our fellows. The more precarious our self-esteem, the greater our vulnerability to such appeals."

PCB student, I've been preparing for neet since 11th. Somewhere along 12th and my 1st drop year, I realised I would much rather join like-minded peers at IISER and that I genuinely wanted to do research. I like the kind of flexibility you have in relation to subjects there. I like how my little decision I made at, like, 15 isn't final and I can get exposed to so many holistic ways of learning instead of being stuck in a race with blinders. I did NEST+IAT pyqs all through my drop year and was revising rn in time to give mock tests. Obviously did JEE pyqs as well, but not as extensively tbh.

Now the thing is my parents still consider IISER as an "inferior" option and literally nothing I say fazes them. I don't want to do MBBS, and I've said this a number of times. Now with re-NEET, they'll start asking me to ditch IAT altogether and get back for NEET. What do I do?? I had a borderline score and could have gotten a GMC, maybe, but I wasn't even interested. My parents had already given me like 938834 different taunts in this singular week because I couldn't get 650 or something, this reneet stuff will just push them further to pressurise me, and I work really bad like that. The biggest advantage I think I had with IAT and the reason my prep was going well so far was that I didn't have unruly pressure, expectations or taunts from people wrt to this exam. It was mine alone, it didn't seem like life-and-death, like the way we get ushered like sheep from grade 11. I had weird, toxic teachers who used to ask us to sleep only 4 hours every night and that we should paste a picture of AIIMS on our ceiling or something so that our every waking moment was watching the stupid photo. i have no idea how i made it through that bs lmao. they don't even try to hide that they treat you like a product.

Apart from neet, iat and nest PYQs, what else can I solve? I've done all of those plus coaching module general questions. Coaching module questions don't really adhere to the IAT pattern tbh so I was looking for a better source. Please help!