On May 12, the National Testing Agency (NTA) cancelled NEET-UG 2026 over a paper leak, shattering the aspirations of around 22 lakh students who had appeared for the country’s most consequential medical entrance exam just nine days earlier.
This isn’t the first time that a NEET-UG paper has been leaked. There were leaks in 2021 and 2024. What’s different this time is that the leak comes despite guidelines set by a committee that the Centre had set up to reform the NTA following the previous leak in 2024.
