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The process of filing petitions in the courts regarding alleged irregularities in the result of medical entrance exam NEET and allegations of paper leak continues. After the Supreme Court, now a petition has been filed in the Rajasthan High Court regarding alleged irregularities in NEET. Petitioner Keshav Pareek said that the PIL has been registered and it will be heard after the formation of a vacation bench during the summer holidays. The petitioner has challenged the non-action against the National Testing Agency (NTA) regarding alleged irregularities, arbitrariness and manipulation in the conduct of NEET UG 2024. The petitioner says that NTA calls itself the world's largest and most fair examination agency but a large number of students who took NEET have objected to the result of the exam and its modus operandi.
Pareek said that NTA had initially taken online applications for NEET UG 2024 from 9 February to 9 March 2024. After this, for the first time in the history of NEET, NTA reopened the application portal on 8 April 2024, which raised suspicion. According to the petition, the NEET results were to be declared on June 14, 2024. But it was a surprise for the petitioner and lakhs of students who appeared in the exam that NTA released the result 10 days earlier on June 4, 2024. The NEET result was such that it surprised everyone. 67 candidates topped by scoring 720 out of 720 marks, which has never happened in the history of NEET. 67 students secured rank 1. Apart from this, many students got marks like 718 or 719, which is impossible to get. This raises concerns regarding the marking system of the exam.
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Pareek said that out of the 67 toppers, six were from the same exam centre, which further strengthens the suspicion of irregularities or possible manipulation. He said that the controversy over the 718 and 719 marks given by NTA has arisen from the standard NEET marking scheme. In NEET, there are four marks for each question, one mark is deducted for each wrong answer, thus a total of five marks are deducted for a wrong answer. Apart from this, if a candidate does not answer a question, four marks are deducted from his mark. This means that after 720 marks, any student can only get 716 and 715 marks. 718 and 719 marks cannot be obtained.
