NEET UG 2024 SC Hearing Live: Hooda says result published on Saturday incomplete

• The Supreme Court on July 18 directed the NTA to publish centre and city-wise results of NEET UG 2024. Ensuring that the identities of the candidates are protected.
• The court decided to limit the scrutiny to two specific instances of paper leaks in Patna and Hazaribagh.
• The petitioners were asked to show that the paper leak was “systemic”.
• The court said it would like to go through the investigation report of the Bihar Police.
• The NTA also informed that the UG medical counselling will begin on July 14.

NEET UG 2024 SC Hearing Live: The Supreme Court bench is going through the investigation reports submitted by the Bihar police.

NEET UG 2024 SC Hearing Live: Advocate Hooda argued that the paper leak did not happen on the morning of the exam day, but before the question papers were deposited with the banks – on or before May 3.

NEET UG 2024 SC Hearing Live: The data on NEET results published on Saturday is incomplete. The NTA published the city and centre-wise results but did not reveal the ranks of candidates and serial numbers of exam centres, Advocate Hooda said.

NEET UG 2024 SC Hearing Live: SC hearing of NEET UG matters has started. Senior Advocate Hooda is arguing on behalf of the petitioners.

NEET UG 2024 SC Hearing Live: The CJI-led bench will start hearing of matters at 10:30 and is likely to conclude the NEET UG matter today, as per Live Law.

NEET UG 2024 SC Hearing Live: The opposition is likely to raise key issues, including the NEET UG paper leak case, in the Parliament Monsoon Session, which begins today. Read more here.

NEET UG 2024 SC Hearing Live: More than 2,300 candidates who have scored above 700 marks in NEET UG are spread across 1,404 centres, and many of them are from non-traditional tuition hubs, news agency PTI reported, citing sources.

Comparatively, the NEET 2023 had a more concentrated spread of top scorers, with 700-720 scorers distributed across 116 cities and 310 centres. The number of scorers between 650 and 699 were spread across 381 cities and 2,431 centres and those who scored between 600 and 649 were from 464 cities and 3,434 centres, the report stated.

“It is true that many students appearing from traditional tuition hubs like Sikar, Kota and Kottayam were able to score 700 or more. However, the silver lining is that many students appearing from other cities were also able to come within this bracket. It appears that aligning the syllabus of NEET with that of higher secondary has started to bear fruits,” sources told PTI.

• Four students from the Mangal Chand Didwaniya Vidya Mandir centre have scored above 700, forty-five have scored above 650 and 115 students have scored above 600 marks.
• 90 students in the Aravali Public School centre have scored over 600 marks.
• In another centre in Sikar, 83 candidates have scored above 600 but below 700.
• Over 27,000 candidates appeared for NEET UG in Sikar, of whom over 4,200 have scored above 600 and over 2,000 have scored above 450.

• On July 18, the SC directed the NTA to publish centre and city-wise results of NEET UG 2024.
• The court had also asked the agency to ensure that the identities of the candidates are protected.
• It decided to limit the scrutiny to two specific instances of paper leaks in Patna and Hazaribagh.
• The petitioners were asked to show that the paper leak was “systemic” and affected the entire examination, warranting cancellation.
• The NTA informed the court that the UG medical counselling will begin on July 14.
• The CJI said that the irregularities in Godhra were not an example of a paper leak but an incident of the centre superintendent trying to help candidates.

NEET UG 2024 SC Hearing Live: The centre-wise result of NEET UG released by the NTA revealed that over 11,000 candidates have scored zero or negative marks in the medical entrance test. The lowest marks scored by a candidate is -180 at a centre in Bihar.

Officials said zero marks does not necessarily mean the answer sheets were blank or no questions were attempted.

“It is possible that the candidate attempted some questions right and some questions wrong which led to negative marking.” Read

(PTI).

NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: The National Testing Agency (NTA), in an affidavit to the Supreme Court on Sunday night,

The IIT-Madras director had nominated another professor to attend the governing body meetings and he has not attended any NTA general body meeting since December 2022, the agency said. Read more here.

NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: In the last hearing, the Supreme Court bench asked the petitioners seeking cancellation, re-test, and a court-monitored probe into the alleged irregularities to show that the paper leak was “systemic” and affected the entire examination, warranting cancellation.

NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: As per the data released by the NTA, some centers have a high concentration of high scorers. More than 240 candidates from the NEET centre at School of Engineering, RK University, Rajkot have scored above 600 marks with 12 of them above getting 700 out of 720 marks.

In Rajasthan’s Sikar, which is a budding coaching hum for NEET UG, four students who appeared for the test from the Mangal Chand Didwaniya Vidya Mandir centre scored more than 700 marks, 45 scored above 650 marks, and 115 students scored above 600 marks. In another centre in Sikar, Aravali Public School, 90 students have scored over 600 marks.

The marks of 83 candidates from another centre in Sikar was also between 600 and 700.

NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: The centre-wise result shared by NTA shows that the candidates who allegedly benefitted from the paper leak and other irregularities did not do well. However, some centres have a high concentration of good scorers. The performance of the candidates from the centres under the scanner – Oasis School in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, Hardayal Public School in Jhajjar, Haryana, Jay Jalaram International School in Godhra, Gujarat – was comparatively much below par.

NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: On July 18, the Supreme Court directed the National Testing Agency to publish city and centre-wise results of NEET UG without revealing the identity of the students. The NTA published it on Saturday.

The court decided to limit its scrutiny to two specific instances of paper leaks in Patna and Hazaribagh and said the decision on whether to scrap the examination and order a retest would depend on whether the breaches were localized or systemic.

NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: The Supreme Court will hear pleas seeking NEET UG re examination and cancellation of results today, July 22. According to the cause list of July 22, a bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra would hear more than 40 pleas.