NEET UG 2024 row: 'Grace marks cancelled for 1,563 students, retest on June 23,' Centre to SC

The Centre on Thursday told the Supreme Court that 1,563 NEET-UG 2024 candidates, who were given grace marks, will be given the option to take re-test.

The government/NTA informed the top court that a committee has been formed to review the results of over 1,563 candidates who received 'grace marks' to compensate for time lost while taking the NEET-UG exam.

The exams will be held on June 23, and the results will be released before June 30, according to the NTA.

If the candidates, out of the 1,563, do not wish to take up the retest then their earlier marks, sans the grace marks, will be given for the purposes of the results.

The results of the re-test will be declared on June 30 and the counselling for admission in the MBBS, BDS, other courses will start on July 6, the Centre said.

Taking note of the submissions, the bench said all the pleas, including the one filed by Alakh Pandey, the chief executive of EdTech firm Physics Wallah over the issue of award of grace marks, will be taken up for hearing on July 8.

They also include the petitions seeking cancellation of NEET-UG, 2024 on account of allegation of question paper leaks and other malpractices.

With PTI inputs