Supreme Court Orders NEET 2024 Retake for 1563 Candidates, Questions NTA

NEET 2024: The Supreme Court declared during its hearing of petitions following the release of the NEET 2024 results that 1563 candidates who received grace marks would need to retake the test. We won't give up on counseling. The Supreme Court has given notice and requested a response within two weeks regarding this. The hearing is now scheduled for July 8. Hearing the NEET UG case is a bench consisting of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta.

NTA's Decision and Student Reactions

According to NTA, this choice was made to ease the students' fears. Applicants who received honor rolls in the NEET UG 2024 exam will need to retake it. On June 23, the exam results will be made public. The therapy procedure won't begin until after this. Additionally, the petitioners have asked for a counseling stay. To put it briefly, the court is deliberating over three petitions that contest the NEET UG 2024 results due to irregularities and cast doubt on the National Testing Agency's decision to grant grace marking to more than 1,500 exam takers citing "loss of time."

Allegations of Arbitrariness in Grace Mark Decision

Physics Wala CEO Alakh Pandey filed one of the petitions. The appeal said that the grace mark awarding decision made by the NTA was "arbitrary." According to reports, Pandey gathered statements from almost 20,000 pupils, demonstrating that at least 1,500 pupils received grace marks in the range of 70 to 80.

Dr. Sheikh Roshan Mohiddin and Abdullah Mohammad Faiz, both members of the SIO, filed the second petition in the Supreme Court pertaining to the NEET UG examination. A demand to organize a new examination and withdraw the NEET-UG 2024 results was made in this filed petition. The applicants claim that grace marks are awarded arbitrarily. Many students had scores of 718 and 719 out of 720, although it was said that these scores were "statically impossible".

In addition, it was asserted that the NTA's use of grace marks was a malevolent ploy to allow some students "backdoor admission" rather than making up for "lost of time." The petitioners also questioned the 720 out of 720 marks obtained by 67 students from a particular center.

Postponement of Counseling

The petitioners have also requested a postponement of the counseling for NEET-UG 2024 admission until the conclusion of the probe into the claims of paper leakage in their second plea. In addition, they insisted on the establishment of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to look into the purported anomalies in the way the exam was administered. NEET aspirant Jaripati Karthik submitted the third NEET UG petition. This involved a challenge to the awarding of grace marks in lieu of purported exam time lost.