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NEET UG: The Supreme Court has refused to cancel and re-conduct the controversial medical entrance exam NEET UG. Also, the apex court has ordered the National Testing Agency (NTA) to release the revised result by considering only one answer (option 4) to the controversial question of the question paper. On the basis of the IIT report, the Supreme Court has made it clear that only the fourth option of the controversial question of Physics will be considered correct. Now NTA will have to release the revised result soon. 4,20,774 NEET candidates had chosen option 2 (answer of the old NCERT version) of the controversial question while 9,28,379 had chosen option 4 (answer of the new NCERT version). NTA had given marks to those who chose options 2 and 4, considering both the answers correct. But now after the order of the Supreme Court, 5 marks will be deducted from those candidates who chose option 2. Four marks for the question and one mark negative marking. With 4,20,774 NEET candidates getting 5 marks deducted, it is obvious that there will be a big change in the All India Ranking.
After the Supreme Court’s decision on the controversial question, the number of NEET toppers will also decrease. After the retest, there are 61 NEET toppers who have scored 720 out of 720, out of which 44 are those who had chosen option 2 according to the old NCERT book. Now, 5 marks will be deducted from them and their score will come down from 720 to 715.
On the direction of the apex court, IIT experts submitted their report on the controversial question in the court on Tuesday in which option 4 was considered the correct answer. In view of this, the court ordered NTA to release the revised result considering option 4 as the correct answer. Option 4 is the only correct option for that controversial question.
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This order of the Supreme Court came on the petition of the student who said that he had not attempted that question due to fear of negative marking. On the petition filed against giving grace marks to the controversial question, the student’s lawyer said that 44 students got full marks due to the grace marks given for this ambiguous question. The petitioner student said that I decided not to attempt because I knew that there is negative marking in it. I have performed very well except this question. I am currently ranked 311th. If I am given four marks for this question, my rank will improve further. The lawyer had demanded that the question should be removed. Citing the decision given in the Kanpur University vs Sameer Gupta case, he said that if a question is ambiguous, it should be removed. NTA had clarified that it had received requests from many poor students that they used old NCERT books of their elder siblings for studies.
