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Explainer: What Is The Controversy Surrounding NEET UG 2024 Results
7 June 2024
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The results for NEET-UG 2024 have been marred with allegations of irregularities and paper leak
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The inflated marks this year have caught the attention of medical aspirants who fear difficult admission process in medical colleges for the upcoming academic year
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Around 67 candidates have bagged the top rank by scoring a percentile of 99.997129. Of these, around six candidates had appeared for the exam from the same centre
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The average marks out of 720 of qualified candidates is 323.55 for 2024 exam
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Questions were also raised on students getting 718 and 719 marks in the NEET UG 2024 exam as the marking scheme follows +4 -1 system
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Clarifying this, NTA noted that around 1,563 candidates were compensated for the loss of time and the revised marks of such candidates vary from -20 to 720 marks
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Amongst these, the score of two candidates also happens to be 718 and 719 marks respectively due to compensatory marks
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An NTA official also noted that the question paper was prepared using a new NCERT textbook. However, some students had old NCERT textbooks
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NTA had to assign five marks to all students who studied from old NCERT books and who had marked one of the two options
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This resulted in increased marks from 715 to 720 of a total of 44 students
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