On Thursday, in the Supreme Court, The National Testing Agency (NTA) told it that a committee was set up to re-evaluate the results of over 1,563 NEET-UG 2024 candidates who were given NEET grace marks” meant to compensate for examination time lost.
The decision by the committee is that their scorecards should be invalidated. For this reason, such students will have an opportunity to retake the exam. In its submission to the top court, NTA said again that a re-examination would take place on June 23 and results would be declared before June 30.
Advice to this effect was given to a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta by counsel for the Centre who informed them that compensatory marks had been awarded to 1,563 students due to loss of time in answering questions thereby skewing things in their favor.
Based on its findings, however, the committee recommended scrapping off these candidates’ marks cards and informing them about their true or final scores minus grace points.
The Supreme Court stated during the hearing that the NEET-UG 2024 counseling process would not be suspended. “Counseling will proceed as planned,” observed Justice Aniruddha Bose adding that because of more serious effects on the examination process, any interference with it would produce.
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Trust Issue For NTA
After the hearing, Physics Wallah CEO Alakh Pandey stated that NTA had admitted in front of the court that it had given grace marks wrongly and this exposed other inconsistencies in the examination.
“NTA has confirmed to us today in the Supreme Court that they were wrong about having granted grace marks to the students. Consequently, this infuriated some of the students and they admitted this led them to be dissatisfied among others.
In addition, they vowed that they would not award such grace marks again. The matter is whether there are other hidden problems with NTA. Therefore, it is a question of confidence in NTA,” Said Mr. Pandey.
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No Evidence was Found related to the paper Leak
Meanwhile, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan denied allegations of a paper leak in NEET-UG 2024. “No evidence for a paper leak can be found for NEET-UG.”
“There is no evidence of corruption in NTA it’s very credible as an institution” he added.
“The Supreme Court is hearing the matter and we will abide by its decision. We will make sure all students are equal,” he said.
There was widespread protest by Delhi students on June 10th demanding a probe into allegations against irregularities during exams. Some people think that these bonus points were unfair and is one of the reasons why there were many high scores attained
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