The NTA will reconduct the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate), or NEET (UG) 2024, on June 23 for 1,563 candidates who had experienced time loss during the originally scheduled exam on May 5 and were awarded compensatory marks.
The result on NEET-UG 2024 for these students will be tentatively declared on June 30.
The NEET-UG 2024 re-examination will be conducted between 2 and 5:20 PM, National Testing Agency (NTA) said.
The re-examination will be conducted only for candidates who were awarded “compensatory marks” during the initial evaluation,” the NTA said.
It further said that the score card of all affected 1,563 candidates issued on June 4 will stand cancelled and thus, withdrawn.
“The marks obtained by the candidates who will appear in the re-test will be considered and their marks based on examination on June 5 will be discarded,” the NTA said.
Why NTA is conducting NEET-UG 2024 again?
Earlier on Thursday, the Centre told the Supreme Court about its decision to cancel the grace marks awarded to 1,563 candidates who appeared for NEET-UG 2024.
The Centre said after the re-exam on June 23 and declaration of result on June 30, the counselling for admission in the MBBS, BDS, and other medical courses will commence from July 6.
After hearing the Centre’s decision, the apex court said that the re-exam will be conducted for the 1,563 students.
Why were grace marks given to 1,563 NEET-UG 2024 candidates?
The NEET-UG is the sole entrance exam for admission to undergraduate medical courses in all medical institutions across the country. The examination is conducted annually.
In NEET-UG 2024, conducted on May 5, more than 24 lakh students appeared at 4,750 centres across 571 cities, including 14 cities abroad.
The results were to be declared on 4 June and it drew immediate attention as the large number of students had secured perfect score of 720/720.
In fact, in NEET-UG 2024, as many as 67 students scored a perfect 720 — scores that some claim are almost impossible to get in the scheme of the exam.
For the unversed in the medical entrance exam last year only two students managed to get full marks and in the year before it was three.
Some even raised objection over the 718 and 719 scores, saying that these were mathematically impossible because in NEET’s marking scheme each question carries four marks and there is negative marking for wrong answers.
It was later found that of the 67 who topped the exam, 44 were given “grace marks”.
The NTA that conducts the entrance exam, last week, said a total of 1,563 candidates, including the 44, had been given grace marks, and the revised scores of these varied from -20 to 720.
It further said these candidates were awarded grace marks, though it didn’t mention how much, owing to “loss of time”.
Students from some of the exam centres in Bahadurgarh (Haryana), Delhi, and Chhattisgarh, complained that they did not get the allotted time to complete their tests.
Another reason for awarding grace marks was one multiple-choice question (MCQ) in physics section of the paper. On 29 May, NTA released its provisional answer key which showed that Option 1 is correct. However, candidates challenged that, arguing that the old version of the Class 12 NCERT textbook gave another answer.
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With inputs from agencies
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NTA to conduct NEET-UG 2024 on June 23 for 1,563 students who were given grace marks
