NEET exam results: High-powered panel will examine complaints of 1,600 students, says testing agency
Several candidates for the medical entrance test alleged that marks were inflated and question papers were leaked at some centres.
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The National Testing Agency on Saturday said that it has set up a high-powered committee to look into the grievances of 1,600 students who appeared in the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test for admission in medical colleges, The Hindu reported.
The results of the entrance examination to medical colleges for Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery or MBBS were announced on Tuesday. Subsequently, several aspirants alleged that an inflation of marks had led to 67 candidates securing the top rank, including six from the same examination centre.
Some reports also alleged that at some centres, the question paper was leaked before the examination.
The National Testing Agency, which conducts the examination, denied the allegations, saying that a revision in the answer key of the physics paper, along with compensatory marks provided for the loss of writing time, led to 67 candidates securing the top rank.
On Saturday, the Director General of the National Testing Agency, Subodh Kumar Singh, addressed a press conference, during which he denied allegations of paper leaks and claimed that question papers were shared on social media around 4.30 pm, two hours after the examination had begun. “Integrity of examination was not compromised at all,” he claimed, according to The Hindu.
Singh said that concerns were raised in only six out of...
