NEET 2024 Result: Delhi High Court Requests NTA’s Response on Appeal about Answer Key

NEET 2024 Result: The Delhi High Court requested the National Testing Agency’s (NTA) response for National Eligibility cum Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG) participant raised concerns about a question in the answer key that had 02 right answers on 07.06.2024. The petition claims that candidates who did not attempt the question should receive the same marks as those who attempted either of the two correct answers. A vacation bench of Justice DK Sharma instructed the NTA’s counsel to inquire about the case. According to the petition, all candidates must be scored equally in order to uphold the concept of fairness in competitive exams. It claims that the authorities violated this principle of fairness by giving points for two valid answers when the instructions made it obvious that only one answer was right.

The 17-year-old petitioner decided not to tackle the question in an attempt to prevent it from hurting her score. With a score of 633 out of 720, she achieved a percentage of about 98 and an all-India rank in the vicinity of 44,700 in the entrance exam. The petitioner has requested a directive for the NTA to rectify and republish the NEET-UG 2024 results, ranks, and percentiles based on the amended marks since she believes that a single mark can drastically change her all-India rank.

The respondent released the final answer key on 03.06.2024. It was noted that, in contrast to the instructions, which said that only one option could be right, alternatives 2 and 4 for question no. 29 of test booklet code R5 were both considered correct, according to the petition. “It is against the guidelines to compel applicants to mark one when a question contains two correct answers and to only award marks for correct responses when there are two incorrect answers. It is viewed as extremely arbitrary for the respondent to expect applicants to attempt an inaccurate question given that there is a negative marking system and that one mark might change a candidate’s standing by hundreds or even thousands of points,” the statement continued.

The appeal further alleged that the results that the authorities had announced were inappropriate and premised on unfair grace marks that had been awarded to different applicants without due process. “Following the release of the results, it was discovered that 67 contenders had received a perfect score of 720/720. However trends before 2024 portray a very different picture,” the petition stated.

Next week is when the subject is scheduled to be heard.