Why So Many NEET-UG Toppers? Exam Body's Reply To Big Question In Top Court

As many as 67 students scored the perfect score of 720/720 in the all-India exam for medical education aspirants. This dropped to 61 after retest

In its reply to the Supreme Court's questions on alleged irregularities surrounding the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), the National Testing Agency (NTA) has answered a key question: why so many toppers this time. 

As many as 67 students scored the perfect score of 720/720 in the all-India exam for medical education aspirants. The jump in the number of toppers fuelled the doubts surrounding the exams, especially since six of them were from the same centre in Haryana's Jhajjar.

The NTA's affidavit filed before the top court says that the six students at the Jhajjar centre scored 720 after they were awarded grace marks for loss of time. But in the retest on May 23, they could not score full marks. So, the number of students with 720/720 stands at 61.