The Centre mentioned holding a retest would burden almost 24 lakh college students.
New Delhi:
A day earlier than the Supreme Courtroom hears a clutch of petitions on the alleged irregularities in NEET-UG, the Centre on Wednesday submitted an affidavit within the court docket stating {that a} complete evaluation of the outcomes has revealed that there was no large-scale malpractice or proof of an area set of candidates benefiting.
The Union authorities additionally reiterated its stance that it doesn’t intend to carry a retest of the medical entrance examination. Doing so on the premise of “unsubstantiated suspicions”, it mentioned, would burden almost 24 lakh college students, who had appeared for the examination on Could 5.
Importantly, the Centre has mentioned that it intends to begin the counselling course of for NEET-UG, which is the ultimate stage for admissions, from the third week of July in 4 phases. If any candidate is discovered to have benefited from any irregularity, their counselling might be cancelled in any of the phases and even after, it mentioned.
Whereas some petitioners within the Supreme Courtroom have demanded that the medical entrance examination be held once more in view of the irregularities and the alleged paper leak, others have petitioned in opposition to a retest.
Bell Curve
In its affidavit, the Centre mentioned consultants from IIT Madras have carried out a technical evaluation of knowledge from NEET-UG 2024 and located no indication of mass malpractice or a localised set of candidates being benefited, resulting in irregular scores.
The information revealed that there’s an general enhance within the marks obtained by college students, particularly within the vary of 550 to 720, and this rise has been seen throughout cities and centres.
The Centre mentioned the rise may be attributed to a 25% discount in syllabus, and the truth that excessive scorers have been unfold out factors to a really low chance of mass malpractice.
The evaluation additionally confirmed that the distribution of marks follows a bell-shaped curve, which is seen in any large-scale examination, and was additional proof of there not being an abnormality, the affidavit said.
Counselling Plan
The Centre “respectfully submitted” that it intends to begin the counselling course of within the third week of July and conduct it in 4 rounds. The federal government mentioned that IIT Madras has been requested to research the individuals concerned in irregularities by way of knowledge evaluation and if proof from that, or different sources, reveals that any candidate is discovered to have benefited, their counselling might be cancelled at any stage throughout or after the method.
On the re-examination subject, the Centre mentioned it isn’t in assist of that as a result of it doesn’t need almost 24 lakh candidates burdened on the premise of “unsubstantiated suspicions”.
In an earlier affidavit too, the federal government had mentioned scrapping the 2024 examination in its entirety would “significantly jeopardise” the way forward for lakhs of sincere candidates who had appeared for it. Within the absence of proof of any large-scale breach of confidentiality within the examination, it had mentioned, taking such a step wouldn’t be rational.
Along with the CBI investigation, the Centre has additionally proposed a seven-member professional panel to think about all the problems raised, in order that no such leaks or irregularities occur in future exams.
