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According to NTA officials, this time all precautions will be taken at the exam centers in the presence of senior officials of the testing agency as well as the Union Ministry of Education. (Symbolic picture)
These students have been given the option to either appear for the re-examination on June 23 or consider their original marks without grace marks.
The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET-UG) will be rescheduled for 1,563 candidates who were given grace marks in the exam held on June 16, National Testing Agency (NTA) officials said on Friday.
According to NTA officials, this time all precautions will be taken at the exam centres in the presence of senior officials of the testing agency as well as the Union Education Ministry.
The exam will be held this Sunday (June 23) at seven centres across the country.
“We have designated six new centres for these candidates while there is only one such centre in Chandigarh where only one or two students will take the exam,” a senior NTA official said on condition of anonymity.
The exam is being rescheduled for 1,563 candidates from six centres who were given grace marks to compensate for the time lost while taking the exam due to administrative reasons such as wrong distribution of question papers, torn OMR sheets etc.
The NEET-UG exam was held on May 5. However, controversy erupted soon after the results were declared on June 4, with allegations of increase in marks of candidates from six centres, including Meghalaya, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Haryana and Gujarat. This also led to protests in several states with allegations of paper leak and irregularities.
Many candidates and their parents also approached the court regarding this matter.
Reappearing for the exam is an option for these candidates, while admit cards have been issued to all of them. “As of now, we cannot say how many of these 1,563 will appear for the exam on Sunday. We will know the exact number on the same day,” the official said.
The matter was challenged in the Supreme Court. Following this, the NTA withdrew the grace marks and these 1,563 students were given the option to either take the exam again on June 23 or consider their original marks without grace marks.
Also, the apex court on Friday refused to postpone the counselling of NEET-UG, which is scheduled to begin on July 6. The Supreme Court will hear the petitions on July 8.
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, while addressing the media this week on the NEET controversy, admitted that “some errors were limited to certain areas”. At the same time, he announced that the ministry was setting up a high-level committee of cyber experts, academics, administrators and scientists to examine the functioning of the NTA.
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