NEET UG 2024: Supreme Court had ordered NEET re-exam on 24th June
BACKGROUND
The results of NEET UG 2024 on 4th June, 2024 put a controversy across the country. According to the NTA report, 17 students landed in first position in the exam with a perfect score of 720/720 and six of the 1,563 candidates who received grace marks ranked at the top. Moreover, 44 other students were awarded AIR 1 after receiving grace marks. According to the NTA, the question on atoms contained an error in an old NCERT book. Despite this, the provisional answer key released by the NTA on May 29 indicated that Option 1 was correct. This very issue was contested by 13,373 students, who contended that NTA’s answer did not align with old NCERT books. The NTA clarified and remove the ambiguity that, the question paper was based on the new NCERT book. As a result of such decision, the score of 44 candidates were raised from 715 to a perfect score of 720, leading to an extraordinary number of NEET-UG toppers this year.
PRIMARY CONCERNS
- The awarding of grace marks to certain students.
- Allegations of leaked question paper.
- Suspected irregularities at specific exam centers.
APEX COURT VERDICT
A panel was established to review the NEET UG 2024 results, the committee decided to cancel the scorecards of 1,563 candidates, who received grace marks and these students will have the option to take a re-test. The exam will be conducted on June 23, and the results will be declared before June 30. Additionally, students who do not wish to appear for the exam will have to accept their original marks deducting the grace marks. And the court declared that “Counselling will proceed, it will not stop. If the exam is affected, everything is affected, so there is nothing to fear”.
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Judgement Reviewed By- Shreyasi Ghatak