New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India accepted the centre’s proposal to hold a re-test and cancel the result of 1,563 candidates who were awarded grace marks in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET 2024).
Disposing of a petition that challenged the decision of the National Testing Agency (NTA) to award compensatory marks to the candidates of six centres due to lost time, the top court also allowed the proposal to cancel the existing scorecards of the affected candidates.
The NEET re-examination for the 1,563 affected candidates is likely to be held on June 23, and the Supreme Court was told that those who do not wish to take it will be considered, and their original scores, without the grace marks, will be considered.
The NTA informed that the re-test results will likely be declared before June 30, and the undergraduate medical counselling will begin on July 6.
The court also issued a notice regarding petitions raising alleged malpractices in the conduct of the NEET exam and tagged it with petitions coming up on July 8. One of the petitions was filed by Physicswallah CEO Alakh Pandey.
The NEET UG result announced on June 4 was widely disapproved by parents and students, with many demanding a probe and re-examination, alleging that the paper was leaked at some centres where students received high scores.
Many also complained about the inflation of marks of students who were awarded compensatory marks due to loss of time.
