Amid a raging row over the NEET-UG 2024, the Centre told the Supreme Court of India on Thursday that it has cancelled the grace marks awarded to 1,563 candidates who took the examination for admission to MBBS and other such courses.
NEET UG 2024 Result Row: The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG) — Medical entrance examination with over 24 lakh candidates appearing for it has become a centre of controversy over allegations of several irregularities and has triggered protests across the country and a political slugfest. According to the recommendations of the High Powered Committee, NTA decided to reconduct the NEET (UG) – 2024 on June 23, 2024, for 1563 candidates who had experienced time loss during the originally scheduled examination on May 5 and were awarded compensatory marks.
NEET UG Result 2024 Discrepancies: Number of Top Rankers To Go Down To 61 From 67 As NTA Withdraws Grace Marks
Soon after the National Testing Agency(NTA)’s decision to withdraw grace marks awarded to 1,563 students, the number of top rankers in NEET-UG will go down to 61 from 67. As per the news agency PTI report, six of these 1,563 candidates who appeared in the medical entrance exam from a center in Haryana had shared the top rank with 61 others.
NEET UG Result Discrepancies: Grace Marks Awarded to 1,563 Candidates Cancelled
Amid a raging row over the NEET-UG 2024, the Centre told the Supreme Court of India on Thursday that it has cancelled the grace marks awarded to 1,563 candidates who took the examination for admission to MBBS and other such courses.
According to the official notice(dated June 13, 2024) published by NTA, A re-examination will be conducted for the affected candidates (1563). The result of those affected candidates (1563) who do not wish to appear for the reexamination, will be declared based on their actual marks (without compensation) obtained in the examination conducted on May 5. “Six out of these 1,563 candidates shared the first rank with 61 others. The number of top rankers will now go down from 67 to 61,” a senior National Testing Agency (NTA) official said, news agency PTI reported. Unless these candidates take a retest and score 720 out of 720, they will not regain their top spot, the official said.
NEET UG 2024 Result Discrepancies: Revised Rank List to be Issued Soon
Asked about how the ranks of other candidates will be impacted, the official explained, “The scores of these 1,563 candidates will now be the pre-normalisation scores and not one with grace marks. A revised rank list will be issued only when we know how many of these candidates want to take a retest.” Refusing to stall the counselling process for NEET-UG, 2024, scheduled to commence on July 6, the Supreme Court made it clear that the admission of successful candidates to medical colleges and other institutions will be subject to the outcome of the petitions that have sought relief such as cancellation of the examination held on May 5 on grounds of question paper leaks and other malpractices.
(With PTI Inputs)