Reshma Ravishanker

With increasing dissatisfaction over the conduct of the National Eligibility and Entrance Exam for post graduate students (NEET-PG), the call to take issues pertaining its alleged discrepancies to the court has grown louder.

In the wake this, some aspirants who wrote the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test – Postgraduate (NEET-PG) 2024 this year are in the process of filing a petition in the Supreme Court against the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) alleging that there were several discrepancies in the exam results.

There has been an increasing dissatisfaction regarding the NEET-PG 2024 results among the aspirants who have alleged that the exam process of the exam is ridden with discrepancies.

Taking to X (formerly Twitter), an aspirant wrote, “A few of us are going to file a case against NBE for the transparency of our NEET PG result. Many people are mentally tired and know that nothing is going to happen, but we still want to try and demand our basic rights.”

 Among the concerns students expressed was that of rank inflation in the exam. Students said that over 300 students had scored the same percentile. “For context: A score of 500 marks was estimated to rank at 17,000 in 2021, 12,000 in 2022, and 18,000 in 2023. However, this year, it stands between 35,000-40,000,”an aspirant said on X.

Another aspirant posted a series of questions and said, “New queries #NeetPG2024 #NEETPG. 1) Why roll numbers were sh

uffled.

2) Why is there a change in percentile?

3) Why are you doing normalisation? Shift 1 was also difficult.

4) Why delay counselling ? Court case needs to be filed asking these questions.” 

Dr Amit Gupta, another X user said, “Huge rank inflation vs score in #NEETPG2024 after research I found out two reasons for it – First, change in questions to USMLE pattern resulting in enormous benefit to aspirants having book like First Aid (NCERT of #NEETPG). NBE examiners are not even capable of forming new questions themselves. Is that the reason they don’t disclose the questions ?? How insecure are they? Secondly, defective normalisation process of ranks due to 2 shifts. Something is not right here. Candidates need more transparency and disclosure. Every single clinical seat is valued in Crores. Numerous students are extremely dissatisfied with their ranks. You can’t just keep them in the dark.”

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