In a major error from the National Testing Agency (NTA), a NEET applicant was shown to practically fail on the 2020 NEET score sheet, but when the applicant, based on their registered OMR answer sheet and answer key, challenged the result before the NTA, turned out to be All India Topper in the scheduled Tribe category.
It was a nightmare for a NEET aspirant from the city of Gangapur, Sawai Madhopur district, in Rajasthan, named Mridul Rawat (17) when NTA gave him 329 points out of a maximum of 720 in the NEET 2020 results declared on October 16 already which according to Mridul was getting 650 points out of 720 based on the recorded answer sheet and NEET 2020 answer key.
Mridul told HT that “based on my scores on the NTA results, I had pretty much failed NEET 2020 because I wouldn’t get any medical school with those scores.”
“I cried and got depressed because I was sure I would overtake NEET with 650 points, but the NEET result broke my heart.”
Mridul said that “I was motivated by my parents, after which I challenged the results sheet to NTA based on their answer sheet and recorded answer key.”
I tweeted to NTA after which the correction was made, he said.
“My despair turned into a delightful surprise today when the NTA accepted their mistake and released a corrected score sheet in which I scored 650 points and was ranked NEET 2020 All India Topper in the Scheduled Tribe category,” he said.
My overall All India Rank is 3577, he said.
However, again there was an error on the results sheet, as the grade count was showing 650 correct grades, but the grades in the word column still showed ‘Three hundred and twenty-nine points’, after which I came back to NTA later today.
NTA released a modified score sheet for the second time in which the marks in the word column now show 650 marks in words, it said.
Mridul is a classroom coaching student at the Kota Aakash Coaching Institute. Akhilesh Dikshit, regional director of the Aakash Institute in Kota, said it was a serious mistake by NTA that should have been avoided.
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