NEET 2025 Results challenged before SC, Candidate Alleges Error in Answer Key
NEET UG 2025 Result gets Challeged before the Supreme Court
New Delhi: Filing a plea before the Supreme Court, a candidate has challenged the final answer key and the result of the National Eligibility-Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET-UG) 2025 examination, held by the National Testing Agency (NTA).
The candidate, who appeared in the NEET-UG exam, alleged that there were manifest errors in the provisional answer key, which NTA did not correct in its final answer key, despite the objections submitted by the petitioner, Live Law has reported.
In his plea, the petitioner has 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.
After appearing in the NEET UG 2025 Examination, the petitioner secured an All India Rank of 6783 and General Category Rank of 3195. If the incorrect answer gets corrected, the petitioner will get 5 more marks and, effectively, his position will get improved, stated the plea.
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As per the latest media report by Live Law, the petitioner 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 has 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.
Live Law has reported that the matter was listed for hearing by a partial working days bench comprising Justices PS Narasimha and R Mahadevan today.
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