From 589 to 41: NEET candidate misses cut-off over silly error, HC orders re-checking of OMR sheet

Yet another issue with the National Eligibility Entrance Test - Undergraduate (NEET UG) result 2025, rather unique, surfaced wherein a candidate claimed she would have scored 589 marks out of 720 instead of 41, had she mentioned the right question booklet number during the exam. As she knocked on the doors of the legal system for help, Allahabad High Court came to her rescue, directing the National Testing Agency (NTA) to re-check the student’s OMR sheet.

The bench comprising Justices Arindam Sinha and Yogendra Kumar Srivastava observed that the NEET UG 2025 candidate didn’t answer any question wrongly and only made a mistake in mentioning the number of the question booklet received by her on the exam day, as per a Live Law report. ‘To err is human and it happens,’ the court said while noting the fact that the aspirant is just 20 years old, during the hearing.

The petitioner argued that she wrote 46 instead of 47 as her booklet number, following which, her NEET OMR sheet 2025 was evaluated against a completely different set of question papers and her scores allegedly plummeted to 41. With the claimed NEET UG scores 2025, she would have met the NEET UG cut-off 2025 for MBBS, BDS admissions, she argued. With this, she prayed for a direction to the testing agency for the revaluation of her answer sheet against the question booklet 47.

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However, NTA’s counsel said that the entire process of evaluation is complete. It highlighted that NEET 2025 aspirant raised an objection against the mismatch in NEET exam only on June 14, when the NEET result 2025 was declared, despite the opening of NEET UG answer key 2025 objection window between June 3 and 5.

Noting the huge difference between the NEET UG marks 2025, the claimed one and obtained one, the Allahabad High Court opined that the student could not have made the mistake deliberately and asked NTA to inform about the revised NEET result 2025.