New Delhi. NTA’s mistake of considering two answers of a question correct in NEET UG exam is going to affect 4.20 lakh candidates. Actually, a question related to nuclear was asked in the NEET UG exam recently. NTA had released its answer key and declared one option as correct. Many candidates had opposed this. After which NTA gave grace marks to the students who considered another option as correct. Now experts of IIT Delhi have declared the fourth option of this question as correct and on this basis the Supreme Court has asked NTA to deduct the marks of those who gave wrong answers. In such a situation, the rank of about 4.20 lakh candidates will fall. These include 44 toppers as well.
NTA had asked this question in NEET UG exam-
Statement 1: Atoms are electrically neutral because they have equal numbers of positive and negative charges.
Statement 2: Atoms of each element are stable and emit their own characteristic spectrum.
4 options were given for this question. A It was said that the first statement is correct and the second is wrong. B It was said that the first statement is wrong and the second is correct. C Both the statements were stated to be correct and D Both the statements were declared incorrect in the.
What caused the error
In the answer key, NTA had declared option A as correct. Whereas, according to the old NCERT book, option C was correct. After the release of the answer key, those students who objected saying that C was correct, were given grace marks by NTA. When the case of NEET UG paper leak was heard in the Supreme Court, the issue of grace marks given to this question also came up. The bench headed by Chief Justice DVI Chandrachud said that there cannot be two correct answers to a question. The Chief Justice asked the experts of IIT Delhi to give the correct answer. On this, the experts of IIT said that the fourth option was correct. After this, the Supreme Court has ordered NTA to deduct grace marks of the students who gave wrong answers. Due to this, the ranking of lakhs of candidates is likely to come down. Obviously, the dream of admission in government medical colleges may get hurt due to the fall in ranking.