The National Testing Agency (NTA) has declared the revised NEET UG 2024 results and the toppers’ list after the Supreme Court directed on Tuesday that the compensatory marks awarded to a selected group of students for a Physics question be withdrawn.
Previously, the NTA had decided to award extra marks to a select group of students who had marked an incorrect answer due to a mistake in their old Class 12 NCERT science textbook. However, on Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled that only one correct answer would be accepted, and no marks would be given for any other responses.
A student had earlier pointed out that “Question No. 29” of the Physics section had two correct answers – when it should have only one correct answer.
The Supreme Court had asked the director of IIT-Delhi to set up a team of three experts and submit a report on the correct answer for a particular question of Physics by the next day noon. Based on the findings of IIT Delhi, the court later said, “Regarding one question of Physics on atomic theory, marks shall not be given for two options, but only for one answer, which is option No. 4.”
Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan had earlier announced that the final results for the medical entrance 2024 NEET-UG exam will be declared within two days according to the observations made by the Supreme Court.
The court ruled that only one correct answer from a set of four answers will be considered valid. The students who will lose four marks include 44 who had scored a perfect 720/720.
The court also dismissed a clutch of petitions seeking cancellation and retest of the medical entrance exam NEET UG 2024. Chief Justice Chandrachud noted that there was no data on record to indicate a systemic leak of question paper and other malpractices in the exam.
The NTA have been at the centre of a massive political row and protests by students over alleged large-scale malpractices ranging from question paper leaks to impersonation in the test held on May 5.
The NEET UG 2024 results, released on June 4, made headlines when 67 candidates were declared as AIR 1. The exam, conducted on May 5, saw participation from 13,31,321 female candidates and 9,96,393 male candidates, with 17 transgender candidates also taking part.
