The NEET-UG 2024 results, announced on Tuesday, have taken several students by surprise. Many objections have been raised as an unprecedented numbers of students, 67, have bagged the perfect score - 720 out of 720. Students have also pointed out other discrepancies in the statement issued by the agency.
What's more concerning is that out of the total students bagging full marks, six have seat numbers from the same sequence. These six students are from Haryana, indicating the chance of them being from a same centre.
Parents have written letters to the National Testing Agency (NTA) who are seeking a thorough investigation into the alleged discrepancies in the results before the counselling commences.
Moreover, scorecards of students scoring 718 and 719 are also being circulated on social media, which parents claim is impossible to achieve in the paper, when each NEET question carries four marks and one mark each is given for negative marking. The NTA, in a statement, said that they received few representations and court cases from NEET candidates raising concerns of loss of time during the exam held on May 5.
"Such cases/representations were considered by NTA and the normalisation formula, which has been devised and adopted by the apex court in a judgement from 2018, to address the loss of time faced by candidates. The loss of time was ascertained and such candidates were compensated with grace marks. So their marks can be 718 or 719 too," said the statement.
.An NTA official said that more students scored higher marks due to the normalisation process and also because the physics and chemistry sections were relatively easier and as per NCERT books. This was done to address equity and also to discourage coaching mafia, said the official.
