New Delhi: Following a controversy over the allocation of grace marks to select students, the National Testing Agency (NTA) on Monday released the results of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET-UG) retest conducted on June 23, affecting 1563 candidates.
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- The NTA has also revised the ranks of all participants, as announced in a public notice on June 30.
- In addition, the notice emphasized that the updated scorecards for all NEET UG 2024 candidates, including those 1563 who participated in the June 23 retest, will be made available on the official website.
- The NEET UG examination was conducted by the National Testing Agency on May 5, 2024 at 4,750 centres in 571 cities in the country, 14 cities abroad and with 23 lakh candidates appearing for the examination.
- The results was declared on June 4, which immediately caused a hue and cry with aspirants raising multiple issues. An unprecedented 67 candidates had achieved a perfect score of 720 marks out of 720 led to widespread protests in the country.
- The Supreme Court ruled that the “grace marks” awarded to some students should be scrapped and provided the affected candidates with the option to either take a re-test or retain their original scores, excluding the grace marks.
- In response to concerns over the conduct of examinations by the National Testing Agency (NTA), the Central Government has formed a high-level committee chaired by former ISRO chairman Dr K Radhakrishnan.
- The CBI took over the investigation of NEET-UG following the discovery of evidence of a paper leak by investigators in Bihar and on June 23 registered a criminal case on the alleged irregularities in the conduct of the exam. the probe agency has formed special teams to look into the matter.
- On June 27, the CBI arrested two accused in the NEET-UG paper leak case from Jharkhand.
