The National Testing Agency on Saturday, by the order of the Supreme Court, republished the results of NEET-UG examinations. An analysis of the results clearly shows that grace marks, that were awarded to students in the original exam held in May, gave a significant boost to marks obtained by students.
The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test has been marred by controversy over the past couple of months with the CBI probing allegations of malpractices in the conduction of the exam including leaking of question papers. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court, earlier this week, heard a bunch of petitions regarding the case and ordered the NTA to declare state and city-wise results of the retest that was held in June.
The probe agency has also made several arrests across Jharkhand, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan concerning the leaking of NEET-UG question papers. A preliminary investigation reveals that the papers were leaked first in Jharkhand.
Toppers not toppers anymore
The recently announced results, which were published by masking the identity of the aspirants, show that toppers who scored a perfect 720 out of 720 from one centre in Haryana could not even cross 682 marks in the retest.
According to NDTV, 494 students appeared for the re-examination at Haryana’s Hardayal Public School and among these aspirants, only one was able to score 682 while 13 others could only manage to bag 600 or above. It is important to note that this is the same centre that had a whopping six students who scored perfect marks, triggering suspicion and uproar that gave rise to the row.
During the original exam, the Hardayal Public School centre saw 500 students sit for the test. Apart from the ones who scored 720/720, two candidates fell short by only one or two marks, scoring 718 and 719.
In May, 813 students out of the 1,563 students who were awarded grace marks appeared for the re-examination.
CBI arrests more
The CBI Saturday arrested an NIT-Jamshedpur B.Tech graduate, one of the masterminds, in the NEET-UG paper leak case and two MBBS students who allegedly solved the exam papers for money, officials said.
With the fresh arrests, the total number of people held so far by the agency in six cases related to the alleged irregularities in the medical entrance exam has now reached 21.
the two MBBS students arrested on Saturday – Kumar Mangalam Bishnoi (2nd year) and Deepender Sharma (1st year) – are from a medical school in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, and they solved the exam papers stolen by Pankaj Kumar, an engineer, from an National Testing Agency trunk in Hazaribagh.
The two “solvers” were present in Hazaribagh on May 5, the date the NEET-UG examination was conducted across the country.
According to sources, these two were part of the solver module in which five MBBS students have already been arrested. The answers were handed over to NEET UG aspirants who had availed the services of the gang.
With inputs from agencies
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