On Thursday, the Centre informed the Supreme Court of its decision to revoke the grace marks given to 1,563 NEET Aspirants.
NEET Retake Exam : The counsel for the Union Government stated that these candidates would be notified of their updated scores, excluding the previously awarded grace marks.
The Centre informed the Supreme Court on Thursday that it has decided to revoke the grace marks previously awarded to 1,563 students. These students will be notified of their updated scores, which will exclude the grace marks. Subsequently, they will have the option to retake the exam. If they opt not to retake the exam, their scores from the May 5 test will stand.
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The government detailed its response, stating, “A committee convened on June 10, 11, and 12 to investigate the allegations. Based on the committee’s recommendations, the scorecards of the affected candidates will be cancelled, and a re-examination will be conducted for these students.”
Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta presided over the vacation bench handling the petitions, which also include requests to halt the counselling process.
“The counselling will proceed as scheduled without any interruptions. If the exam continues, everything else will also proceed as planned, so there is no cause for concern,” stated the Supreme Court. Three petitions had called for the cancellation of NEET UG 2024 and a retest, citing alleged irregularities in the allocation of grace marks. The NTA conducted the NEET (UG) 2024 examination on May 5 across 4,750 centers, with approximately 24 lakh candidates participating. Originally scheduled for June 14, the results were announced on June 4, reportedly due to expedited answer sheet evaluations.
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According to the plea, the NTA informed candidates about the grace marks reactively rather than proactively at the time of result declaration. This clarification emerged only after queries were raised regarding scores of 718/719 out of 720, which appeared technically implausible according to the marking scheme.
The plea calls for an extensive investigation by an independent high-powered committee into the conduct of the examination. It questions the rationale behind the adoption of a grace marks policy that deviated from previous NTA practices and demands transparency regarding the 1,563 candidates compensated for lost time, including their original and revised marks.
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Filed on June 1, the plea stems from a Bihar police investigation into an alleged question paper leak. The anomaly of 67 students scoring a perfect 720, particularly with six from a single center in Faridabad, Haryana, has raised suspicions of irregularities. Student protests in Delhi on June 10 demanded an investigation into alleged irregularities, specifically the role of grace marks in the 67 students achieving top ranks.
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