The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Friday released re-revised results, the fourth iteration, of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) undergraduate exam that pave way for medical and para-medical course admissions. The latest results were published after the Supreme Court asked the NTA to deduct marks for a Physics question that NTA had said had two ‘correct’ answers.
In the revised results, 17 candidates share the top rank having scored 720 out of 720, down from 67 in the first iteration of results released on June 4. The second version of results was released on July 1 after conducting a retest for 1,563 candidates of whom only 812 opted to appear and the third iteration was issued on July 20 in a format prescribed by the Supreme Court.
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The 17 toppers are from Delhi (2), Uttar Pradesh (2), Bihar (1), Rajasthan (4), Punjab (1), West Bengal (1), Maharashtra (3), Tamil Nadu (1), Kerala (1), Chandigarh (1). Six students have scored 716 and 77 students have got 715 in the latest results announced by the NTA.
Out of the 67 candidates, six had been given grace marks that were later rolled back by the NTA following Supreme Court hearings, after nearly 45 petitions were filed in the court against the NTA’s arbitrary manner of awarding grace marks for purported ‘loss of time’ while writing exams in select centres.
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Another 44 students who scored 720 marks on account of an ambiguity created by a Physics question, which had two different ‘correct’ answers in old and new editions of the National Council of Educational Research and Training textbook. The court later formed an expert committee from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi that said that the option pointed out in the old book was incorrect. The court ruled that five marks be deducted for all students who had referred to the old book to answer the question.
Also, after the issue of the final results, which were revised for the third time, fewer number of students have qualified after the NTA issued final results on Friday. Of the 23,33,162 candidates who appeared for NEET-UG 2024, 13,15,853 candidates have finally qualified. Earlier, according to the results issued on June 4, 13,16,268 candidates had qualified. After the final results were issued, 415 candidates who had earlier qualified now stand disqualified
