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Avdhesh Kumar

‘Not students, it’s about 25 lakh families’: Aspirants on NEET hopes, hype and harm

Results of the NEET-UG 2024 examinations – conducted by the National Testing Agency – have triggered an uproar due to allegations of paper leaks, the distortion of rankings with the grant of grace marks to some, and unusually high cutoffs. 

The government has ruled out a wider retest while the Supreme Court is looking into a petition seeking a CBI probe. The academic year, meanwhile, seems ruined for thousands of aspirants, and the possibility of meritorious students making it to prestigious institutes appears diminished. 

“This is not about 25 lakh students but 25 lakh families,” an aspirant told Newslaundry.

What can allay the apprehensions of students and their parents? Were irregularities limited to a few exam centres? To understand the issue, Avdhesh Kumar and Sumedha Mittal spoke to a bunch of students and their families.

Watch.

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