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Dinesh Prasad Saklani, Director of National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), has said that the Council is not responsible for the NEET controversy. At the Regional Institute of Education, NCERT, Mysore, he said that NCERT is not at all responsible for the grace marks controversy of the medical entrance exam NEET UG. NCERT had uploaded the final text books on its website four years ago in the year 2020 itself, there is no confusion in this regard. He said, 'NCERT's updated books are available in both print and online formats since 2020. We do not know why the question makers referred to books before 2020. '
Let us tell you that this time a record 67 candidates topped NEET. All these students got 720 out of 720 marks (99.997129 percentile) and all got rank 1. The abundance of toppers and the huge jump in cutoff increased the tension of students and parents regarding admission in medical colleges. Students got high marks but they lagged behind in the rank. When there was an uproar across the country, NTA blamed NCERT books. NTA said that the number of toppers has increased due to changes in NCERT books. Due to two answers to a question in Physics, the marks of 44 candidates increased from 715 to 720.
NTA said that there was a question on atom in Chemistry in NEET exam. Students were asked to choose one answer from four options, which told which of the two statements given in the question was correct. The controversy arose when NTA, after objections on the provisional answer key, found that two of the given options were stated correct by NCERT in its old and new books. These students got bonus marks for getting two answers correct. Now NCERT has said that its new books have been in the market for the last four years.
Saklani has rejected the NTA's claim that the questions in the NEET exam were out of syllabus. He also rejected the opposition's allegations that the word India would be replaced with the word Bharat in NCERT text books.
