NEET 2024 Controversy: Centre Asks Supreme Court to Cancel Scorecards of Students Receiving Grace Marks, Re-Test Soon

In the recent update in NEET-UG result 2024 controversy, the centre has told the Supreme Court that ‘grace marks’ given to 1,563 students would be nullified and that these candidates will also have to appear for a re-test on 23rd June.

In the recent update to the threads of NEET-UG result 2024 controversies, the Government/NTA tells Supreme Court that the grace marks which was given to the 1,563 candidates for the loss of time suffered while appearing for the test have been cancelled and the govt. has also constituted to review the results of these candidates.

These students will now appear for a re-test on 23rd June.

This update comes after the Supreme Court reiterated that it will not stay the counselling process.

The SC said, “Counselling will go on and we will not stop it. If the exam goes then everything goes in totality so nothing to fear,” says Supreme Court.”

So, the counselling for admission in MBBS, BDS and other courses will commence as per the decided schedule which is on July 6.

Speaking to ANI, petitioner and CEO of Physics Wallah says, “Today, NTA accepted in front of the Supreme Court that the grace marks given to the students were wrong and they agree that this created dissatisfaction among the students and they agreed that they will remove the grace marks…Re-examination of those 1,563 students who got grace marks will be done on 23rd June or the original score without grace marks would be accepted by the students. NTA agreed in front of the SC that the grace marks they awarded were wrong. The question is if NTA has other discrepancies that we are unaware of. So, there is a trust issue with NTA…The issue of paper leak is open and hearing on that will continue…”