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The National Testing Agency (NTA) will be re-conducting the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, Undergraduate (NEET UG) 2024 exam on June 23 for approximately 1563 candidates.
As previously reported, those affected candidates will now have two options: accept the original result, (minus the grace marks) or retake the exam on June 23. "The exam will be held in the same six cities but at different centres," a top NTA official informed.
On june 8, NTA and the Union Education Ministry constituted a committee to assess the normalisation strategy that was implemented for over 1,563 candidates who were given "grace marks" to compensate for the "loss of time" they experienced while taking this year's NEET UG exam. The committee consisted of one member from MoHFW, one from NIOS, and two UPSC members. Affected candidates came from six different centres: two in Chhattisgarh (Balod and Dantewada), one in Meghalaya, Surat, Haryana's Bahadurgarh, and Chandigarh.
The NTA further stated that special committee will look into similar complaints filed by students until June 4.
What Is Normalization Process
This committee, led by a former UPSC Chairman and three academicians, has now decided that the NTA must re-conduct the NEET UG exam for total of 1563 students who were given grace marks based on a normalisation formula chosen by NTA from a 2018 Supreme Court decision on a similar incident in CLAT.
The normalisation method used in the CLAT 2018 exam altered the candidate's score depending on time lost and answering efficiency.
The NTA followed the same procedure, and 1563 candidates were managed for lost time. According to NTA, the revised marks of such candidates range from -20 to 720. Among these, score of two candidates is 718 and 719 marks, respectively, due to the compensating marks.
NTA generally utilizes normalised marks for few other admission exams, such as JEE Main and CUET, which are held on different days. However, in such circumstances, normalisation formula is made available to the public in advance - a technique that has never been used for NEET UG because it is held on the same day for all candidates. However, the NTA has stated that it will strive to include this topic in future NEET UG information bulletins as well.
The statement came shortly after students, professors, and opposition parties like the Congress, AAP, DMK, and the Maharashtra government urged a retest and a Supreme Court-monitored investigation into the suspected paper leak and anomalies raised by students on social media.
Various Factors Behind Increase In Number Of Toppers
The results, announced on June 4, got attention for the inflated number of students obtaining perfect marks (720/720), a ten-day advance result statement, an alleged paper leak, and some students receiving grace marks for time lost, bringing their scores to 718 and 719. Students and some NEET experts/tutors raised all of these issues on social media shortly after the results were announced.
While the NTA has repeatedly stated that the increased number of toppers is due to an increase in the number of registered students, grace marks due to time constraints, and an easy question, NTA Director General Subodh Kumar Singh also attributed the unusually high number of top rankers (67) to this year's relatively easy paper.
This is the first time there have been 67 toppers in NEET UG. Since 2019, there have never been more than three toppers in any year of the NEET UG, which is single entrance test for all MBBS programs in the country. There was only a topper in both 2019 and 2020. There were three top performers in 2021, one in 2022, and two last year.
17 + 6 + 44 = Record Toppers
According to the NTA, 17 students received a 720/720 score, while six of the 1,563 candidates who were awarded 'grace marks' remained in the top places.
In addition, 44 other students were awarded AIR 1 since they provided incorrect answers to a physics question and received "grace marks" for it. According to the NTA, a multiple-choice Physics question about atoms in an earlier NCERT book contained an inaccurate statement. However, on May 29, NTA provided its provisional answer key, which revealed that Option 1 is valid. This was contested by 13,373 students, who stated that NTA's answer did not match the previous NCERT texts. The NTA claims that the question paper was based on the new NCERT book. 44 students' scores were raised from 715 to an impeccable 720 as a result of this decision, making them part of an unprecedented number of NEET-UG toppers this year.
The total number of toppers got as a result of these two additional scenarios: 17 students were deemed to have received AIR 1, to which 6 students were added due to grace marks for time loss, and 44 students were subsequently added due to the incorrect Physics question.
This year, a record 23.81 lakh students registered for NEET UG, up from 20.87 lakh the previous year. According to data provided by the NTA, 9.96 lakh boys, 13.32 lakh girls, and 17 transgender candidates attented the exam.
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