Filing a plea before the Apex Court, a candidate alleged that there was an error in the answer provided by the National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducted the NEET UG 2025, to one question (Question No. 136, Code No. 47).
However, the top court bench comprising Justices PS Narasimha and R Mahadevan declined to interfere in the exam matter and accordingly dismissed the plea.
"Exam matter we are not going to interfere. You may be right on principle that there could be multiple correct answers. Despite that, to interfere in an all-India exam at this stage, will create...," Justice Narsimha told Senior Advocate R Balasubramaniam, the counsel for the petitioner.
As per the latest media report by Live Law, the counsel for the petitioner pointed out that the Supreme Court had interfered in the 2024 NEET UG examination and had ordered the correction of mistakes based on an expert report given by IIT-Delhi.
"It is a matter affecting the career of the students. One mark difference will mean a lot. So many students are affected by his," submitted the petitioner's counsel, while urging the Court to constitute an expert committee to ascertain the matter.
However, the top court bench refused to change its stand and clarified that it cannot interfere in an individual matter in a national exam. Regarding NEET UG 2024, Justice Narasimha observed that the Supreme Court's interference in last year's NEET UG exam was due to widespread grievances regarding the discrepancies and shortcomings in the conduct of the exam.
"Having heard learned senior counsel for the petitioner and on carefully perusing the material placed on record, we are not inclined to entertain this petition under Article 32 of the Constitution. The Writ Petition is, accordingly, dismissed," the top court bench ordered.
The plea before the Supreme Court was filed by a NEET UG 2025 candidate, who secured an All India Rank of 6783 and a General Category Rank of 3195. In his plea, the petitioner in particular challenged the answer to Question No. 136 (Code No. 47). He alleged that the answer given by NTA is wrong. Candidates were asked to choose the correct option regarding the factors regulating the cardiac activities of the heart.
Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that the petitioner had sought a direction to the NTA to correct the alleged error in the answer key as per the authoritative NCERT texts and revise the results accordingly. Apart from this, the petitioner also prayed for a stay in the counselling process as an interim relief.
What was the Disputed Question?
Candidates were asked to answer-
Cardiac activities of the heart are regulated by:
A- Nodal Tissue
B- A special neural centre in the medulla oblongata
C- Adrenal medullary hormones
D- Adrenal cortical hormones
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A, B and D only.
2. A, B and C only.
3. A, B, C and D.
4. A, C and D only.
Filing the plea, the petitioner argued that, according to the NCERT Class XI Biology textbook, option 3 (meaning that all the factors mentioned in the question regulate cardiac activities of the heart) is the correct answer.
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https://medicaldialogues.in/pdf_upload/supreme-court-neet-answer-key-293472.pdf
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