NTA Declares Revised Rank List for NEET-UG Medical Entrance Exam
New Delhi: The revised rank list for the medical entrance exam NEET-UG was announced by the National Testing Agency on Monday. This revised list was announced after a retest for candidates who were earlier awarded grace marks to compensate for loss of time as at six centres of the exam started late on May 5.
For the retest conducted at seven centres on June 23 following a Supreme Court order, 48 per cent of the 1,563 candidates did not appear. The NEET-UG entrance test was held on May 5 across 4,750 centres. Around 24 lakh students appeared in the entrance exam. The results were announced on June 4. Sixty-seven students scored a perfect 720, a never before happening in the NTA’s history, with six from a single centre in Haryana. This raised suspicions of irregularities including paper leaks and allotment of grace marks. Although there were protests and litigation, with various quarters demanding a complete re-examination, the Centre, claimed that incidents of irregularities were “localised”.
