Days after the National Testing Agency (NTA) declared the results of the Undergraduate National Eligibility and Entry Test (NEET-UG), a student from Maharashtra approached the Nagpur court of Bombay High Court claiming discrepancies in the test evaluation system after she scored zero on the exam.
This student in her written request has stated that she expected at least 600 out of 720 on her entrance exam and was surprised to see her final score card. “After scoring 81.85% on her HSC exams, the student expected to get at least 600 on her NEET exam. The first problem was that the NTA never loaded its Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) sheet and then its result shows that it got a score of zero of 720. There is definitely a flaw in its online evaluation system, “said the defender. Ashwin Deshpande, who represented the student in court Monday.
The court has now asked the NTA to clarify whether said student’s OMR sheet was uploaded first or not, by the next hearing date. “How can a student get zero points when she expected 600 or more? NTA will have to clarify this, ”added Deshpande.
This is not the only case where students have noted discrepancies in the markings of their scanned OMR sheets and their final scorecard.
In another case, a student from the Akola district in Maharashtra also approached the NTA with a similar problem. “Based on the provisional answer key shared by the NTA in the last week of September and each student’s scanned OMR sheet that was uploaded by the NTA, this student got a perfect score of 720 out of 720. However, based on his or her credit card final score has obtained only 212 points, which is impossible, ”said an activist who is currently helping this student to approach the Bombay High Court.
NEET-UG was conducted across the country on September 13 of this year and a second phase of the examination was held on October 14, after which the results were declared on October 16. Several students, since then, have approached the NTA with the scanned copy of their OMR Sheets and their final scorecard highlighting the difference in grades.
“My OMR sheet plants two different answers to the same question on two different pages, which is very shocking to see. All this points to technical problems in the evaluation software and NTA will have to clear up this problem soon, ”said one of the students on condition of anonymity.
On Monday, NTA CEO Vineet Joshi told HT that prima facie, such blatant brand discrepancies are not possible. “However, since we have received inquiries from some students, we are individually verifying each inquiry and trying to resolve it as soon as possible,” Joshi said.
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