NEET 2025: Aadhaar Verification Confusion Sparks Panic Days Before Exam
New Delhi- In less than a week, the National Testing Agency (NTA) is going to conduct the National Eligibility and Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET UG) medical entrance exam for the academic year 2025. Meanwhile, confusion and anxiety have erupted among the candidates as they have been asked to provide their Aadhaar details for verification, despite that NTA had earlier allowed candidates to use identification methods other than Aadhaar for NEET registration.
It is reported that many candidates who opted for them said they received a message on Tuesday asking them to switch to Aadhaar-based authentication. Now, when they are trying to do so, the candidates are unable to go through the verification process despite multiple attempts.
According to a NewsCareer360 report, The text message asked candidates to check their emails for a link to update the authentication mode in Aadhaar by 11:50 pm today, i.e. Wednesday, April 30. Candidates visited the NTA website to complete the formality, however, they received a message that read, "Your Aadhaar authentication form has not been submitted. Please try again".
The NTA decided to go for Aadhaar verification after widespread reports of irregularities, including paper leaks and security breaches during the NEET last year. Hence, in January, the NTA had issued a notice urging candidates to use their Automated Permanent Academic Account Registry (APAAR) ID, a newly introduced Aadhaar-linked digital record of academic achievements and Aadhaar-based authentication, to register for NEET UG 2025. However, the agency later clarified that APAAR integration is not mandatory.
Students were given three methods of verification in the NEET 2025 application form – Aadhaar, APAAR and any other ID.
On this, speaking to NewsCareer360, a candidate from Mumbai said, “I called NTA twice to inform them about the issue. They told us that the process is stuck due to heavy traffic on the portal. I was asked to share the screenshot of the failure message via email, which I did, but to no avail.”
