New Delhi: Over 4 lakh college students who took the NEET-UG examination will lose 4 marks after the Supreme Courtroom dominated that just one right reply from a set of 4 is legitimate. A pupil highlighted that ‘Query quantity 29’ within the Physics part had two right solutions, whereas there ought to have been just one. Among the many college students who will lose 4 marks are 44 who had achieved an ideal rating of 720/720.
Throughout a high courtroom listening to on Monday, the petitioner highlighted an anomaly the place two solutions have been marked as right for a query, resulting in discrepancies in scoring. The petitioner argued that those that chosen one of many two right solutions have been awarded 4 marks, which might considerably have an effect on the ultimate advantage record of profitable candidates.
The Supreme Courtroom’s resolution adopted a report from a crew of three consultants from the Indian Institute of Expertise (IIT) in Delhi, which resolved the difficulty in regards to the “atoms” query and its traits.
” We agree with the IIT Delhi report and instruct the NTA to re-evaluate the NEET UG outcomes, contemplating possibility four as the only real right reply for the query,” the Supreme Courtroom mentioned in the present day after consulting the response from a three-member crew constituted by IIT Delhi director.
The courtroom has additionally rejected a number of petitions requesting the cancellation and retest of the NEET UG 2024 medical entrance examination. Chief Justice Chandrachud acknowledged that there was no proof of a systemic leak of the query paper or different types of malpractice.
