HC Issues Notice To NTA

NEET 2020

Student says OMR sheet tampered with

HC Issues Notice To NTA

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Ahmedabad:10.11.2020

The Gujarat high court on Monday issued a notice to the National Testing Agency after an MBBS aspirant complained that his OMR (optical mark recognition) marksheet in NEET was tampered with.

Palitana town’s Jayveersinh Gohil has claimed that he was expected to get 692 marks out of 720 in NEET with only two questions left unattempted and four questions wrongly answered. He expected this result after tallying his answers with the answer key published by the National Testing Agency, which conducts NEET. But he got only 354 marks.

The student claimed that the answersheet shown to him reflected that the two questions which were left out were shown as attempted and there were eight other questions which were not attempted. He alleged a scam and claimed that his answersheet was tampered with because his signature and handwriting do not tally with the ones found in the answersheet.

Gohil also submitted that in 2019 NEET, the original answersheet used to go to NTA, the second copy to the main centre and the third copy was given to the student. This year, the changed system has left him with no evidence. Hence, his advocate Hitesh Acharya requested the high court to direct the authorities to provide the original answer sheet.

The HC has posted further hearing on November  27.

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The National Medical Commission (NMC) has now been constituted to replace the Medical Council of India (MCI). The NMC has also released details of the kind of requirements that will arise in medical colleges in the coming days and the reforms needed. “Based on the NMC’s directive, a 10-member committee has been constituted by the Gujarat government,” a source said.