NEET Results 2024: NTA offers grace marks for loss of exam time, explains 718, 719 marks

NEW DELHI: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has clarified that the candidates who raised concerns on loss of time during the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET UG 2024) were awarded grace marks. A total of 67 candidates have been given NEET AIR 1 with 99.997129 percentile score. The NEET results 2024 were declared yesterday at the official website, exams.nta.ac.in/NEET. NEET 2024 Result (Out) Live

“NTA received few representations and Court Cases from the candidates of NEET (UG) 2024 raising concerns of loss of time during the conduct of the examination on 05.05.2024. Such cases/representations were considered by NTA and the normalisation formula, which has been devised and adopted by the Hon'ble Apex Court, vide its Judgment dated 13.06.2018, was implemented to address the loss of time faced by the candidates of NEET (UG) 2024,” the latest update read.

“The loss of examination time was ascertained and such candidates were compensated with grace marks. So, candidate's marks can be 718 or 719 also,” the NTA explained.

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The statement comes after several candidates pointed out that the category-wise NEET toppers marks for scheduled caste (SC) was removed in the latest NEET result notification and demanded clarification for 718 and 719 marks. As per the marking scheme, four marks are given for each correct answer and one mark will be deducted for each incorrect response. Therefore, out of the total 720 marks, the second highest mark a candidate can secure is 716. The NEET score card of the candidates who secured 718 and 719 marks were widely circulated on social media.

Grace marks in NEET 2024

However, several students took to social media platforms raising more questions on grace marks.

A student wrote on X: “Dear NTA, This is too much, how can it be possible for a student to get 718 or 719 and why didn't this happen before ???? Why is it happening for the first time? This has to be answered properly not like this. Why are you neglecting to answer? Where is the answer for the leak?”

“In my centre we received the paper late by 20 min hence loss of time so we should received such grace marks to. How do you know only they had only loss of time when under your posts lacs of students told about loss of Time. Why loss of time didn't happen last year years before?” another NEET aspirant said.

Sharing the screenshot of the toppers list shared by the NTA, another student said: “From serial no. 62 to serial no. 69, all have similar roll numbers, so they might have given exam at same particular centre.”