Uproar over NEET 2024 results escalates on X, Aspirants demand re-exam citing paper leak, unfair grace marks, irregularities

New Delhi: In the wake of the release of National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Undergraduate (NEET-UG) 2024 results that have sparked massive student outrage, several medical aspirants and their parents have taken over the social media platforms by storm demanding a re-examination.

Voicing their concern about the lack of transparency and fairness in the marking system, netizens including several medical aspirants, candidates, medical students, activities and doctors have called out for clarification from the government regarding the scores in the NEET 2024 results and demanded a re-examination.

Referring to past instances of paper leak scandals in Bihar ahead of the NEET examination, social media users are urging the authorities to ensure justice by conducting a re-examination.

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Citing allegations of paper leaks, last-minute implementation of grace marks for lost time, and errors in this year’s results, social media users have questioned the decision of NTA to release the results of the NEET UG 2024 on May 4, a whole 10 days earlier than the scheduled time on June 14. 

Right after the results were declared, netizens pointed out how 67 students secured 720/720 and AIR 1 when the number in 2023 was just 2, with students belonging from Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. Hence, demands for NEET re-examination are causing uproar on social media. 

Taking to popular social media platform 'X', a user said "STUDENT DEMAND FOR RE-EXAMINATION FOR NEET UG 2024 ASPIRANTS."

"NEET exam process should be cancelled and prepare for reexamination. Everyone know what happened in Bihar," said another user.

Questioning the procedure of giving grace marks to candidates, a user asked "How nta given grace marks ? It is to be clarified by NTA that how many grace marks provided to how many students. @NTA @PMO if there was time management complain you should consider for reexamination not to give grace marks."

"Is it for real? These video shows that some people on telegram already had NEET UG question paper before May 5. If it is real then NEET should be re-conducted. @NTA_Exams must give some clarification regarding this," tweeted a senior resident doctor. 

"How can there be 8 NEET toppers from a single examination centre in Haryana? Isn’t this suspicious?! Probably cheating & corrupt practices of examination centre is the result of 8 toppers. Does this deserves investigation? Reexamination of 8 toppers again?" asked another user. 

"We demand justice for NEET-2024 and Re-Exam immediately," said another user on X.

"Justice for #Neet ug. ‘Cancel NEET 2024’: Students Demand re-exam citing paper leak, unfair grace marks, irregularities," wrote another user referring to Patna paper leak scam.

This year's NEET results came as a shock to many as altogether 67 candidates secured the All India Rank 1 in the examination. Moreover, soon after the reports of a large number of students securing full marks i.e. 720 marks in the exam came to light, the allegations of the NEET paper leak scam started circulating on the social media platforms.

Calling the NEET eram a scam, a user wrote "NEET 2024 Is a Scam 🚨 ? 1.Paper leak 2.Cheating 3.Impersonation 4.OMR management 5. Now Result Scam."

"SCAM NEET UG 2024 - Unfair conduct of the examination, paper leaks, and cheating, Manipulation of results without proper judiciary order and transparency, Publishing results amid election results when people are more focused on the elections to escape. This clearly shows involvement of NTA in unfair conduct and SCAM. A lot of students are going to suffer," a user tweeted. 

"Bihar Police kept saying openly that NEET UG 2024 paper has been leaked but NTA did not care. Now when the results were released amidst the election results, it became known that all the records were broken 67 candidates got full marks of 720/720.... And some candidates have got marks up to 718,719 which is not possible. Is any paper possible in India without dishonesty? Will NTA be able to do justice to lakhs of hardworking students?" asked another user.

A medical student demanding reexamination tweeted "Dear@NTA_Exams Please reconduct the NEET exam & gives proper notice about NEET #reexam . I humble request to @NTA_Exams please conduct the NEET #reexam in September 2024."

As per HT news report, a group of parents has started an online campaign demanding a re-examination for NEET UG 2024. Speaking to the daily, one of the parents said “We consider this as a mass copy or paper leak event in some centres across the county. We also have doubts about the involvement of private coaching institutes in paper leak incidents."

Candidates Move Supreme Court Seeking Re-Conduct Of Exam

Medical Dialogues team recently reported that demanding a fresh NEET-UG 2024 exam, a group of candidates moved to the Supreme Court raising the issue of paper leak and the sanctity of the test.

NTA has also been made a party in the plea before the Supreme Court. Filed by Shivangi Mishra and others, the pleas raised the issue of paper leak and the sanctity of the test while seeking a direction for conducting fresh examination.

It has been alleged in the plea that the NEET-UG test held on May 5 was riddled with malpractices as various instances of paper leaks came to the knowledge of the petitioners.

NEET Paper Leak Scam:

This year's NEET UG 2024 exam was mired in controversies after a paper leak scam was revealed in Bihar. Around 13 people, including four examinees and their family members, were arrested in Bihar for their alleged involvement in the paper leak of the NEET-UG exam. Patna police sources had previously claimed that the NEET-UG question papers along with their answers were provided to around 20 aspirants a day before the date of the exam i.e. May 5, 2024.

Then, the Economic Offences Unit (EOU) of Bihar Police, which took over the investigation, revealed that the brokers involved in the NEET paper leak scam took between Rs 30 lakh to Rs 50 lakh from each of the medical aspirants in exchange of giving them the question paper of the NEET UG 2024 question paper ahead of the examination.

NEET Scorecard Raises Allegations of Paper Leak Scam:

NTA released the NEET scorecard yesterday i.e. on June 4, 2024. A record 24.06 lakh candidates had registered for NEET this year. The passing percentage is almost the same as last year at 56.2 percent.

The results of NEET-UG 2024 shocked many as altogether 67 candidates secured the All India Rank 1 in the examination. Moreover, soon after the reports of a large number of students securing full marks i.e. 720 marks in the exam came to light, the allegations of the NEET paper leak scam started circulating on the social media platforms.

Several X (formerly Twitter) users including doctors and health activists also referred to the NEET marking pattern and questioned how some candidates secured 718 or 719 marks in the exam.

According to the NEET marking scheme, every candidate is awarded 4 marks for every right answer and 1 mark is deducted for every wrong answer. Therefore, after the full marks i.e. 720, the candidates can only secure 716 marks if they leave one answer unattempted. Similarly, a candidate would get 715 marks if he/she gives one wrong answer.

Some of the social media users including doctors and activists also questioned how altogether 8 students from the same centre secured 720 marks in the examination.

Amid all these allegations, NTA, the authority in charge of conducting the NEET exam has clarifed that candidates can score 718 or 719 marks this year because they were awarded grace marks.

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