Grace marks given to 1,563 students in NEET will be cancelled, Centre tells Supreme Court
These candidates can either appear for a re-examination or retain their original scores, which will exclude the compensatory marks that had been given to them.
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The grace marks awarded to 1,563 students in the National Eligibility-Cum-Entrance Test conducted on May 5 will be cancelled, the Centre told the Supreme Court on Thursday, Live Law reported.
This submission came amid the court hearing a batch of petitions alleging question paper leaks, the “arbitrary” awarding of grace marks and other irregularities in the entrance examination, which is conducted by the National Testing Agency for admission to undergraduate medical courses.
On Thursday, a vacation bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta was told by advocate Kanu Agarwal, representing the Centre, that these 1,563 candidates will be sent their actual scores without the grace marks.
They will be given the option to either appear for a re-examination or retain their original scores, which will exclude the compensatory marks that had been given to them earlier, Agarwal said.
Agarwal said that a panel, which was formed by the National Testing Agency on June 8 to look into the grievances of those who appeared in the National Eligibility-Cum-Entrance Test, took the decision a day earlier to “allay the fears of the students”.
According to the panel, the grace marks given to the 1,563 students due to a loss of time resulted in a “skewed situation” as the compensation was limited only to the unattempted questions, Live Law reported.
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