NEET-UG EXAM: 15 students from Bahadurgarh centre secured 600 plus marks
Ravinder Saini
Rohtak, July 20
Out of the 494 candidates who appeared in the NEET-UG exam held at a centre in Bahadurgarh town in Jhajjar district on May 5, 15 students obtained marks greater than 600 (between 606 and 682).
This was revealed when the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced the centre and city-wise results of the NEET-UG on Saturday, following the directives of the Supreme Court in this respect.
NTA: Hardayal Public School’s revised highest score is 682
The centre-wise results of the NEET-UG declared on Saturday, retest of which was conducted on June 23, by the National Testing Agency (NTA) revealed that no candidate has scored above 682 in the revised results for a centre in Haryana that was under the scanner after six aspirants had scored 720/720. In the exam centre in question, Hardayal Public School in Haryana’s Bahadurgarh, two candidates had scored 718 and 719 marks in the original exam raising suspicion.
The Bahadurgarh centre came into the limelight at the national level after six of its examinees scored cent-percent marks (720) or nearly full marks, with grace marks included that were awarded in lieu of the loss of time. They had complained that their half-hour was wasted due to the distribution of the wrong question paper, which was then replaced.
Three exam centres were set up in private schools in Bahadurgarh town for the NEET-UG exam but grace marks were awarded to the candidates of only one centre while candidates of another exam centre had alleged ‘discrimination’ stating that they too faced wrong distribution of the paper, which wasted their time as well but they were not awarded grace marks.
The NEET-UG results, which were announced last month, have now been published in the centre and city-wise format following an order of the Supreme Court, which is hearing several petitions on the alleged irregularities in the conduct of the exam, including a paper leak.
This step of publishing city and centre-wise results aims to determine whether candidates appearing at allegedly ‘compromised’ centres scored higher marks than those at other locations.
Sources said a total of 1,563 candidates across the nation were awarded grace marks, which were later withdrawn.
A re-exam of such candidates was conducted on June 23 following the directives of the Supreme Court in this respect.
In Jhajjar, two new centres were set up to conduct a re-exam of a total of 494 candidates and 287 out of them re-appeared in both the exam centres while 207 remained absent from the re-test.
