Grace marks to 1563 candidates in NEET: 3 thousand students at affected centers, 20 thousand complainants; then how did NTA decide the number of 1563

The re-examination for the 1563 candidates who got grace marks in the NEET result is to be held on June 23. On June 13, NTA had told the Supreme Court that the marks of the 1563 candidates who have been given grace marks in the result will be cancelled and they will be given the option of re-examination. The special thing is that NTA did not give any evidence to the court as to why only 1563 candidates have been given grace marks.

NTA said that it will change the result in the very first hearing of the Supreme Court. However, the question still remains as to how NTA selected 1563 candidates to give grace marks.

On an average, 500 students appeared for the exam at each centre.
NTA had replied to the Supreme Court that grace marks were given at 6 exam centres in 4 states. There were an average of 500 children at each centre in the exam. In such a situation, the number of affected children at 6 centres should have been more than 3 thousand.

On this matter, Supreme Court petitioner and founder of online coaching PW, Alakh Pandey told us, ‘NTA told the court that there was a delay in distribution of papers at some centres in Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and Chhattisgarh. However, no information was given about which are these ‘some’ centres. This number of 1563 is completely fake. The actual number of affected students is 2.5 to 3 lakh.

There is no evidence of any irregularities at 6 centres
NTA told the court the number of centres, but did not give any information about how 6 centres were identified. The NEET exam was conducted under CCTV surveillance in more than 50 thousand rooms of all 4750 exam centres. Expert Alakh Pandey says that it is not possible for NTA to check so many CCTVs, so were grace marks given based on the complaints of exam centres?

There are more than 20 thousand students who have complained in the court
After the exam was held on May 5, reports of delay in NEET exam started coming from different centers. According to Kota’s famous teacher and petitioner in the case Nitin Vijay i.e. NV Sir, 20 thousand candidates have filed digital petitions against the exam. Most of these complaints are about loss of time. This count is much more than 1563.

On this matter, Alakh Pandey said, ‘In the case of CLAT exam of 2018, the Supreme Court had said that there are many children who do not reach the court, they should also get a chance to file a complaint. When the irregularities in the CLAT exam came to light, it was initially said that 25 children were victims, while in the end the number came out to be more than 5 thousand. In such a situation, the correct number in the NEET case will also be more than 2 lakh.’

NTA did not tell the formula to convert loss of time into grace marks
Out of 67 NEET toppers, 6 are from Haryana’s Hardayal Public School centre. 2 more candidates from here have also got 718 and 719 marks. According to NTA, due to confusion at this centre, the wrong set of question papers were distributed to the candidates. In this way, about 37 minutes of the students were wasted. NTA gave them grace marks on the basis of time loss.

NTA said, ‘We have used the 2018 judgment of the Supreme Court which says that in case of time loss, you can give grace marks by calculating the answering efficiency.’ But NTA did not say how many grace marks have been given for how much time loss.

Alakh Pandey said- Answering efficiency is not the right formula
Alakh Pandey said, ‘Did the centers lodge any complaint for loss of time? If yes, then through which medium was the complaint lodged?’ He explained this formula and said-

Answering efficiency has two parts-

1. The speed of answering the child

2. Accuracy

Suppose a child got the paper 1 hour late. Then he started solving it. Usually in NEET exam, the child solves the biology section first. He solves 90 questions in 45 to 50 minutes, so his speed is 2 questions in 1 minute. In the beginning, the child starts solving only those questions about which he is sure.

In such a situation, it appears that the answering efficiency of the child is not real. The child’s answering efficiency deteriorates in the last one hour of the paper. This means that you are judging the child on his best performance, but evaluating him on his worst performance.

The Education Ministry had formed a panel for review
The Education Ministry constituted a four-member panel headed by the former UPSC chairman to review the grace marks given to 1,563 candidates in NEET.

NTA Director Subodh Singh said, ‘A high commission panel has been formed to review the results of 1563 candidates. This panel will review the results of these candidates within a week and submit its report. Based on this, the result can be changed.

The panel comprised NTA chairman and professor Pradeep Kumar Gupta, who has also been the former chairman of UPSC. Apart from this, the panel comprised former UPSC member TC Anant, former president of National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) CB Sharma and National Medical Commission member and DGHS Dr. B. Srinivas.

NTA Director Subodh Kumar Singh had talked about the review of 1563 candidates in a press conference.

The panel did not tell how 1563 candidates were selected
In its report to the Supreme Court, the panel said that in the CLAT 2018 decision, out of 4690 students, 1563 candidates were given grace marks based on the formula, which resulted in getting so many marks while there is a difference in the timestamp of CLAT and NEET.

This panel decided that it would be better to conduct the exam again for these candidates. However, the panel has not clarified anything about only 1563 candidates getting grace marks.

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