The NTA declared the results of NEET 2024 on 4th June 2024. Several significant irregularities have been noted in the results, suggesting that the exam was unfair. These irregularities include:

1. The paper was leaked in many locations, but the NTA refused to acknowledge it. Instead of getting the matter investigated by a reliable central agency like the CBI, they did nothing and announced the results.

2. Sixty-seven students scored 720/720, which is unprecedented and highly unusual.

3. Eight students from one center in Haryana, under the same pin-code scored more than 718 marks, with six out of eight scoring 720/720, which is a surprising ‘co-incidence’ as; if we calculate the probability of that happening, it comes out to be approximately 0.000000001%, which looks highly suspicious.

4. Some students scored 718 and 719 marks, which is technically improbable in NEET. The explanation provided by the NTA is unsatisfactory. The criteria for grace marks was never disclosed prior to the exams, and the NTA is not being transparent in disclosing the actual details. The grace marks for time lost was defined for exams like CLAT, but was never there for NEET.

5. If there was a provision for grace marks due to time wastage, it should have been disclosed in the information brochure so that all students could have utilized this provision in similar situations.

6. The results were declared prematurely on a day when the media was occupied with broadcasting the results of the general elections. This urgency by the NTA raises suspicion.

7. There has been an unprecedented increase in the cutoff, which is illogical. The AIR at the same score has increased three to four times compared to NEET 2023.

8. The NTA never addressed the paper leak in any press briefing. Many perpetrators of the paper leak were ‘arrested’, but the status of the investigation was never revealed. Because of heavy backlash from the student community, and thousands of RTIs filed against the NTA, they’re ‘clarifying’ that no paper leak has taken place, on a national scale. They’re clearly refusing to let the CBI investigate this case, by shrugging off the allegations.

9. The NTA has stated after heavy backlash : 

“The number of candidates who appeared in 2023 was 20,38,596, while the number of candidates who appeared in 2024 increased to 23,33,297. The increase in candidates naturally led to an increase in high scorers due to a larger pool of candidates.”

Surprisingly this was the same case that happened in case of the NEET 2023 exams, where there was a similar jump in the no. of  applications. But, it didn’t alter the cut-off that much. The NTA is not being transparent about this matter as well. Only 2 students scored 720/720 in NEET 2023, which was definitely not ‘tough’, in comparison to that in 2024. 

10. Furthermore, the NTA has stated : “While the outcome of the investigation in aforesaid cases is awaited, NTA has categorically denied any case of paper leak. NTA also issued a detailed Press Release on 06 May 2024 stating that there has not been any paper leak as was being circulated on social media. The same stand has been reiterated and NTA maintains that the integrity of the examination was not compromised.”

Clear denial it is!

If the case is that the outcome of the investigation is ‘awaited’, how can they “categorically deny” the broad-scale allegations against them - perhaps the first of its kind. By not being transparent enough, the NTA itself is compromising the integrity of such a world-renowned examination, and has lost credibility to conduct the exams. The main question is that how did the NTA declare the results, before actually getting information about the scale of UFM incidents?