New Delhi, National Testing Agency (NTA) has approached the Supreme Court to move the petitions filed by NEET-UG candidates in several high courts over alleged irregularities in granting of grace marks, paper leak and evaluation of answers to certain questions. Will knock. The High Court was informed about this on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, a vacation bench of Justice Nina Bansal Krishna issued notice and asked the NTA to respond to four petitions raising these grievances by candidates of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG), 2024.
Following the footsteps of the Supreme Court, the High Court also refused to stop the counseling process.
The court accepted the NTA counsel's request for time to respond to the pleas and listed the matter for further hearing on July 5.
At the outset, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the bench that several petitions have been filed in seven different High Courts related to alleged irregularities in the conduct of the NEET-UG, 2024 examination and some are pending before the Supreme Court.He said NTA will soon file a transfer petition in the apex court to consolidate all the petitions.
Mehta told the court, "We are filing a transfer petition in the Supreme Court because there is a possibility of conflicting views by different high courts. Can you consider waiting for a week or two? We will file a transfer petition. "
The law officer said these petitions can be broadly classified as raising issues of granting of ex-gratia/compensatory marks, alleged paper leaks and discrepancies in answers to certain questions.
Counsel for some of the petitioners urged the court to direct the authorities not to start counseling for now or to note that counseling would be subject to the outcome of these petitions.However, the High Court refused to pass any such order.
Mehta cited the apex court order where no such relief was granted.
One of the petitioners drew the attention of the court to a question which had two correct answers in the answer key and prayed that equal marks be awarded to those who did not answer the question, as to those who did not answer the question for any one of the two correct answers. Made for those who try.
The petitioner said that the principle of fairness in competitive examination dictates that all candidates should be evaluated at the same level and alleged that the authorities compromised fairness by giving marks to two correct options despite the instructions clearly indicating that That only one option was correct.
To avoid negative impact on his score, the 17-year-old petitioner decided not to attempt the question and scored 633 marks out of 720, with an overall percentage of around 98 and an all-India rank close to 44,700.The petition states that the entrance exam.
The petitioner has stated that one mark can significantly alter his All India Rank and, therefore, sought direction to NTA to correct and re-publish the NEET-UG 2024 result, rank and percentage based on the revised marks. Is of.
“On June 3, the respondent published the final answer key. It was observed that question no. In test booklet code 29 of R5, both options 2 and 4 were considered correct, contrary to the instructions which stated that only one option could be correct.
“Not giving marks in case of wrong question and forcing candidates to give one mark in case there are two correct answers to a question is contrary to the instruction that only one answer will be correct.It is submitted that it is highly arbitrary for the respondent to expect the candidates to attempt the wrong question when there is negative marking and each mark can make a difference of hundreds if not thousands of ranks,” it added.
NEET-UG 2024 exam was conducted by NTA on May 5 across 4,750 centers and around 24 lakh candidates appeared for it. The results were expected to be declared on 14 June, but were declared on 4 June, as the evaluation of answer sheets was already completed.
NEET-UG exam is conducted by NTA for admission to MBBS, BDS, AYUSH and other related courses in government and private institutions across the country.
Meanwhile, a vacation bench of Justice Nina Bansal Krishna issued notice and asked the NTA to respond to four petitions raising these grievances by candidates of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG), 2024.
Following the footsteps of the Supreme Court, the High Court also refused to stop the counseling process.
The court accepted the NTA counsel's request for time to respond to the pleas and listed the matter for further hearing on July 5.
At the outset, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the bench that several petitions have been filed in seven different High Courts related to alleged irregularities in the conduct of the NEET-UG, 2024 examination and some are pending before the Supreme Court.He said NTA will soon file a transfer petition in the apex court to consolidate all the petitions.
Mehta told the court, "We are filing a transfer petition in the Supreme Court because there is a possibility of conflicting views by different high courts. Can you consider waiting for a week or two? We will file a transfer petition. "
The law officer said these petitions can be broadly classified as raising issues of granting of ex-gratia/compensatory marks, alleged paper leaks and discrepancies in answers to certain questions.
Counsel for some of the petitioners urged the court to direct the authorities not to start counseling for now or to note that counseling would be subject to the outcome of these petitions.However, the High Court refused to pass any such order.
Mehta cited the apex court order where no such relief was granted.
One of the petitioners drew the attention of the court to a question which had two correct answers in the answer key and prayed that equal marks be awarded to those who did not answer the question, as to those who did not answer the question for any one of the two correct answers. Made for those who try.
The petitioner said that the principle of fairness in competitive examination dictates that all candidates should be evaluated at the same level and alleged that the authorities compromised fairness by giving marks to two correct options despite the instructions clearly indicating that That only one option was correct.
To avoid negative impact on his score, the 17-year-old petitioner decided not to attempt the question and scored 633 marks out of 720, with an overall percentage of around 98 and an all-India rank close to 44,700.The petition states that the entrance exam.
The petitioner has stated that one mark can significantly alter his All India Rank and, therefore, sought direction to NTA to correct and re-publish the NEET-UG 2024 result, rank and percentage based on the revised marks. Is of.
“On June 3, the respondent published the final answer key. It was observed that question no. In test booklet code 29 of R5, both options 2 and 4 were considered correct, contrary to the instructions which stated that only one option could be correct.
“Not giving marks in case of wrong question and forcing candidates to give one mark in case there are two correct answers to a question is contrary to the instruction that only one answer will be correct.It is submitted that it is highly arbitrary for the respondent to expect the candidates to attempt the wrong question when there is negative marking and each mark can make a difference of hundreds if not thousands of ranks,” it added.
NEET-UG 2024 exam was conducted by NTA on May 5 across 4,750 centers and around 24 lakh candidates appeared for it. The results were expected to be declared on 14 June, but were declared on 4 June, as the evaluation of answer sheets was already completed.
NEET-UG exam is conducted by NTA for admission to MBBS, BDS, AYUSH and other related courses in government and private institutions across the country.
