The National Testing Agency (NTA) declared the revised NEET-UG 2024 results on Thursday after the Supreme Court asked it to revise the merit list by withdrawing the compensatory mark awarded to a select group of students for a Physics question.
The top court directed the NTA to treat the answer suggested by a panel of three experts of IIT Delhi to the controversial question as the correct one.
The testing agency had treated the two options as correct answers to the Physics question and had granted four marks to those examinees who had marked these options.
The students whose answers match the one given by IIT-Delhi will get four marks for the question, while those who answered the other option as per the old NCERT textbook will lose five marks. This has led to a reshuffle in their marks.
Earlier in the day, a panel of IIT Delhi experts told the bench that there was only one right answer and not two. They said only one of the options - "atoms are electrically neutral as they contain an equal number of positive and negative charges" - to a question is correct.
The top court on Tuesday also dismissed a batch of petitions seeking cancellation and re-test of the NEET-UG 2024 which has been mired in controversy following allegations of irregularities and question paper leak.
A bench comprising Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Manoj Misr noted that there was no data on record to indicate a systemic leak of question paper and other malpractices.
