Errors in Question Paper, Delay in Grievance Redressal- Concerns before NEET 2025 Results
NEET UG 2025
New Delhi: The results for the National Eligibility-Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET-UG) 2025 examination are scheduled to be released within the next few days. Amid this, students and parents/guardians have started raising serious concerns over errors in the question paper in the NEET 2025 exam. Further complaining of the delays in the redressal of the grievances, the students and parents are now urging the National Testing Agency (NTA) to respond quickly.
The centralised UG medical entrance examination i.e., NEET UG 2025 exam, was conducted by NTA on May 4, 2025. More than 20 lakh candidates appeared in the exam to get admitted to MBBS, BDS, and other UG medical courses.
As per the latest media report by the Times of India, in Sikar and Gujarat, the NEET candidates alleged that they received faulty booklets with jumbled page numbers. For instance, the students who were given Paper Code 47 in Sikar found that the pages of the question paper were not in order. Similar issue was found in Gujarati-medium Paper Code 48 for candidates in Jamnagar, Gujarat.
TOI has reported that due to the incorrect sequence of pages in the question paper, like question 7 being followed by question 15, some of the candidates claimed that they darkened the circle for the wrong question.
Some of the candidates have alleged that they had to lose valuable time trying to figure out the correct corresponding circles on the answer sheet.
After the exam was over, the guardians reportedly submitted formal complaints to the State Government of Gujarat and the NTA. In their complaints, the guardians had also attached the scanned copies of the faulty booklets as proof.
Commenting on the matter, a parent wrote, "Students even raised the issue during the test but were told to solve the faulty paper."
A state official also confirmed receiving such complaints from the guardians of the candidates. However, NTA has denied commenting on the issue, stating that it was sub-judice.
Meanwhile, some of the candidates and coaching experts have also flagged certain questions as being beyond the medical syllabus. One such example was question 38 of Code 47, which asked the candidates to solve a calculus-based derivative- a topic more suited to engineering entrance tests like JEE (M).
Speaking to TOI in this regard, an NTA official said, "All questions were from the prescribed syllabus. The answer keys have been published and objections invited from candidates. These will be reviewed by a committee of subject experts."
These complaints are pending before NTA, when recently the Madhya Pradesh High Court stayed the result declaration of the NEET candidates who complained of facing a power outage during the NEET examination on May 4. They claimed that the heavy rainfall, coupled with lack of management by the examination centers, which failed to arrange power backup, affected their performance.
