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Dinesh Prasad Saklani, director of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), has rubbished claims by the National Testing Agency (NTA) that questions in the NEET UG (undergraduate) exam 2024 were “out of syllabus”. There is no truth in the NTA statement.
Addressing the media at NCERT’s Regional Institute of Education (RIE) in Mysuru on Monday, Saklani said: “NCERT’s revised textbooks from 2020 are available both in print and online. We don’t know why those who prepared the questions referred to pre-2020 textbooks.”
NTA conducts the All India Pre-Medical Entrance Examination.
NEET UG exam controversy
The NEET UG exam 2024 for admission to MBBS and other such courses was held on May 5 across 4,750 centres.
About 24 lakh candidates had appeared in the examination.
Allegations of question paper leaks and other irregularities related to asking of questions outside the syllabus in states like Bihar are being raised across the country.
Protests were also held in several cities and petitions were filed in several High Courts and the Supreme Court seeking investigations into the alleged irregularities.
Initially these results were to be declared on 14 June, but were declared on 4 June.
About 67 candidates scored the full 720 marks, including six from a single centre in Haryana’s Faridabad district that top the list.
It is alleged that 67 students got top ranks due to grace marks.
While hearing a case related to the NEET UG 2024 exam, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said that if there was even “0.001 per cent negligence” in the conduct of the NEET UG 2024 exam, it should be dealt with thoroughly.
The Supreme Court said, “If there has been even 0.001 per cent negligence on someone’s part, it must be dealt with strictly.”
On June 13, the Centre and the NTA told the Supreme Court that grace marks given to 1,563 candidates who took the exam had been cancelled.
The Centre had said that candidates would have the option to either re-appear for the exam or forgo the compensation marks allotted to them for loss of time.
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