NEET results row: Grace marks for aspirants withdrawn, Centre informs SC
The Hindu
The decision to award grace marks to 1,563 candidates of National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG), 2024, by National Testing Agency (NTA) is withdrawn, the Centre told the Supreme Court on June 13.
The decision to award grace marks to 1,563 candidates of National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG), 2024, by National Testing Agency (NTA) is withdrawn, the Centre told the Supreme Court on June 13.
The students, who were given grace marks, will be given the option to take a re-test on June 23, the Centre said in the court.
The Supreme Court is hearing as many as three petitions, including the one filed by the chief executive of EdTech firm Physics Wallah’, pertaining to the controversy-ridden NEET-UG, 2024 for admission to MBBS, BDS and others courses.
The examination was held by the NTA on May 5 across 4,750 centres and around 24 lakh candidates took it. The results were expected to be declared on June 14 but were announced on June 4, apparently because the evaluation of the answer sheets got completed earlier.
The allegations such as question paper leak and the grant of grace marks to over 1,500 medical aspirants have led to protests and filing of cases in seven high courts as also the Supreme Court.
As many as 67 students scored a perfect 720, unprecedented in NTA’s history, with six from a centre in Haryana’s Faridabad figuring in the list, raising suspicions about irregularities.
Scores of students protested in Delhi on June 10 seeking a probe into alleged irregularities. It has been alleged that grace marks contributed to 67 students sharing the top rank.
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