NEET 2024 Live Updates: Education Minister rejects allegations of paper leak; grace marks withdrawn

The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court asked the National Testing Agency (NTA) to produce the original records of a student who has alleged she is yet to get her NEET result.

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NEET 2024 Live Updates: The loss of examination time was ascertained and such candidates were compensated with marks based on their answering efficiency and time lost, as per the mechanism/ formula established by the Hon’ble Apex Court, vide its judgment dated 13.06.2018 in W.P. 551 of 2018. 1563 candidates were compensated for the loss of time, informed NTA

NEET 2024 Live Updates: NTA responded by saying that the syllabus of NEET (UG) - 2024 was revised. It is a 22 to 25% reduced syllabus compared to the previous year.

NEET 2024 Live Updates: According to NTA, the maximum number of candidates registered from the State of Uttar Pradesh, followed by Maharashtra and Rajasthan.

• 335004 students appeared in Uttar Pradesh and 165047 students qualified
• 275457 students appeared in Maharashtra and 142665 students qualified
• 174893 students appeared in Rajasthan and 121240 students qualified

NEET 2024 Live Updates: More than 2.13 lakh examination functionaries (including City Coordinators, Centre Superintendents, Observers, Deputy Observers, Invigilators, etc.) were deployed for the smooth conduct of the NEET (UG) – 2024.

In addition, a Central Control Room was opened to monitor and facilitate the smooth conduct of the Examination on the ground, informed NTA.

NEET UG results 2024 Live: As per the frequently asked question (FAQs) and answers released by NTA, about 13.16 Lakh candidates were qualified for NEET UG 2024.

NEET UG results 2024 Live: According to NTA, there is an increase of 16.85% in the total registration with a 15.71% increase in Males and 17.84 in Females.

As far as the category is concerned, an 8.17% increase in General, 19.72% in SC, 20.46 in ST, 20.12% in OBC-NCL, and 24.34% in Gen-EWS was witnessed.

NEET UG results 2024 Live: “It has been decided that the scorecards of 1,563 students will be cancelled, and they will be given an option to reattempt the exam on June 23. If some students do not wish to give the test again, then grace marks will be deducted from their current score and that will be their final score. But we have heard nothing from the government on the larger scam," said Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi.

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NEET 2024 News Live: Alakh Pandey, CEO of Physics Wallah, one of the petitioners argued that the NTA's decision to award grace marks was "arbitrary." He is reported to have collected feedback from approximately 20,000 students, indicating that around 70-80 marks were arbitrarily awarded as grace marks to at least 1,500 students.

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NEET 2024 News Live: The National Testing Agency (NTA) released a set of frequently asked questions (FAQs) regarding the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test NEET (UG), the results of which were declared on June 4, 2024.

The FAQs were released to clarify the allegations and concerns regarding the conduct of the exam, rewarding of marks, compensatory marks and more.

NEET 2024 News Live: The National Testing Agency conducted the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (UG) for more than 24 lakh candidates at 4750 different Centres located in 571 Cities throughout the country including 14 Cities outside India on May 5, 2024, from 02:00 P.M. to 05:20 P.M.(IST)

NEET 2024 News Live: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan rejected allegations of paper leak in medical entrance exam NEET-UG, saying there is no evidence of it.

"There is no evidence of paper leak in NEET-UG. The allegations of corruption in NTA are unfounded, it is a very credible body," Pradhan told reporters.

"The Supreme Court is hearing the matter and we will abide by its decision. We will ensure no student is at a disadvantage," he added.

(Inputs from PTI)

NEET 2024 News Live: The National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET-UG) results have caused an uproar this year, with aspirants and parents demanding a probe and re-examination, alleging that the paper was leaked at certain centres where students later received high scores and complaints over “inflation of marks” of students who were compensated with grace marks for the loss of time.

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NTA’s Director-General pointed out that the decision to give grace marks was taken as per a committee's recommendation.

NEET 2024 News Live: The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court asked the National Testing Agency to produce the original records of a student who has alleged she is yet to get her NEET result.

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NEET 2024 News Live: On petitions raising alleged malpractices in the conduct of the NEET exam, the court issued a notice and tagged it with petitions coming up on July 8. One of the petitions included the one filed by Physicswallah CEO Alakh Pandey.

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NEET 2024 News Live: The decision to conduct a re-test for the candidates who were given grace marks was suggested by a four-member panel constituted by the Ministry of Education

(Inputs from Abraham Thomas)

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NEET 2024 Live Updates: SC disposes petition challenging award of grace marks by NTA in NEET-UG 2024 by accepting the recommendation by Centre giving the option of re-test to 1563 candidates who were awarded grace marks for loss of time during the examination held on May 5.

NEET 2024 Live Updates: NTA informed that results of the re-test will likely be pronounced before June 30, 2024, to facilitate the counselling process from July 6, 2024.

NEET 2024 Live Updates: The SC allowed the NTA to conduct the re-test most likely on June 23 and cancel the scorecards of those 1563 candidates who opt to appear. For those who do not wish to appear, their original scorecards (without the grace marks) shall be considered.

NEET 2024 Live Updates: The Centre has proposed a re-test for 1563 candidates and for those who do not wish to appear, their original marks (without award of grace marks) will be taken into consideration.

(Inputs from Abraham Thomas)