Delhi/Punjab Post
The Supreme Court on Friday (August 2) criticised the National Testing Agency (NTA) for the “flip flops” it made in relation to the conduct of the NEET-UG 2024 exam.
The Court was pronouncing the detailed judgment giving the reasons for its July 23 order which refused to cancel the NEET-UG exam held on May 5 over paper leak and malpractices. While holding that there was no material to show that the leak was widespread affecting the sanctity of the entire exam, the Court highlighted the lapses made by the NTA. After the oral pronouncement, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said, “We have said that the NTA must now avoid the flip flops which it has made in this case. These flip-flops in the NTA does not serve the interest of the students.”
CJI questioned the NTA for allowing candidates to change the exam centres and also for opening a “rear door” to allow new registration. CJI also flagged the NTA’s decision to award grace marks to 1563 students to compensate for the loss of time they suffered for being given the wrong question paper. However, this decision was later retracted and those students were made to appear for a re-test.
CJI Chandrachud also pointed out the NTA’s decision to award grace marks to students who attempted a second option for an ambiguous question. Later, the expert panel constituted by the IIT-Delhi opined that the question has only one correct answer, following which the Court directed the NTA to revise the results accordingly. Because of the NTA’s decision to treat two answers as the correct answer, 44 students got the full 720 marks, CJI pointed out.
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