No Re-NEET: ‘Black day’, say medical aspirants; SC orders revised results with correct physics answer

NEW DELHI: As the Supreme Court ordered no re-NEET stating lack of material proving a systemic breach, medical aspirants were left disappointed and dubbed today a ‘black day’. The court has also asked the National Testing Agency (NTA) to revise NEET results 2024 by treating option four as the correct answer of the physics question which led to candidates getting top ranks, as per a Live Law report.

A bench led by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud approved the submission made by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi expert committee and observed that there cannot be two correct answers to the question. The court had asked the IIT Delhi director to form a three-member panel and submit its opinion on the matter, during the last hearing. The top court heard, over days, more than 40 petitions regarding re-exam over alleged paper leak and malpractices in exam and announced its verdict today.

44 candidates among the NEET toppers 2024 secured the All India Rank (AIR) 1 due to a physics question with two correct answers. The testing agency gave such students full marks after the subject experts examined their challenges and found that the old and new editions of the NCERT book on physics rendered two options correct following which the NEET UG 2024 answer key was revised.

What after Supreme Court verdict on NEET

Now that the SC has refused to cancel the NEET UG 2024 exam conducted on May 5, the Medical Counselling Committtee (MCC) will reportedly announce the NEET UG counselling schedule 2024 tomorrow, July 24.

Meanwhile, doctors and MBBS aspirants said that the NEET verdict will do injustice to the aspirants while complaining that the NEET paper leak did happen.

A NEET PG aspirant said in a post on X (formerly Twitter), “Whole country including the Supreme Court knows that the paper was leaked. As SC itself said in 2015, "if one student gains marks illegally, the sanctity of the exam is breached”. Now their own statement has been breached. Government won, and the NTA won. Students lost.”

Doctor Vivek Pandey wrote on X, “Paper was leaked and proved. The CBI said they still can't find the culprits. Paper was sent via Whatsapp and all phones are destroyed, they don't know how many students got paper. Rank inflation also proves mass leak still no justice?”

“Disgusting! NEET paper leak was a huge scam with the connivance of big guns in the central government. That's why the government employed relentless efforts and resources in the Supreme Court to get a "No Re-Exam verdict." It's a joke on the lives of 24 lakhs students who appeared in this exam,” a science graduate said in a post.

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An alumnus of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) commented, “Black day in Indian Judiciary System. Corruption won, who lost then? It's the defeat of public, students, doctors. The SC judgement was 100% biased. Doctors wake up! You're being exploited.’

An X user wrote, “Justice should not only be done, it should also be seen being done. In #NEET it neither happened nor was seen. The court's stance was against #reneet from the beginning. There are 1.08 lakh seats, if they had conducted re-examination of 2.16 lakh students, justice would have been seen being done. Students between 600-650 have been mentally murdered, their wounds will keep bleeding.”