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Counselling for NEET-UG to start from Aug 14, registration in first week

The counselling for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET-UG) 2024 will start from August 14, according to an MCC notice issued on Monday. However the registration for the process of counselling is likely to start from the first week of August, Dr B Srinivas, Secretary of the National Medical Commission (NMC) said. The candidates are advised to visit the MCC website for the latest news and notices for counselling. "The counselling will take place for the allotment of approximately 1.10 lakh MBBS seats in around 710 medical colleges across the country. Also, the counselling will be held for 21,000 BDS seats besides Ayush and nursing seats," Srinivas said. The MCC will conduct counselling for the 15 per cent all-India Quota seats and 100 per cent seats of all AIIMS, JIPMER Pondicherry, all central university seats and 100 per cent deemed university seats. The National Testing Agency had on Friday announced the final results of the controversy-ridden medical

CUET UG 2024: Results announced at exams.nta.ac.in, check details inside

NTA has announced the CUET-UG 2024 results on the official websites of NTA CUET UG at exams.nta.ac.in. The majority of registrations was recorded from Uttar Pradesh with 3,47,736 students

NTA announced NEET-UG entrance exam final results, counselling soon

The NTA has announced the NEET UG 2024 results on July 26 on the official website. Now, the counselling process will soon start on the official site of the Medical Counselling Commission (MCC)

NEET-UG 2024 result: NTA releases revised scorecards after SC's order

In the revised results, 17 candidates shared the top rank by scoring 720 marks, down from 67 in the initial results

NEET-UG: Toppers to drop from 61 to 17 after IIT-Delhi answer correction

The revised merit list was necessitated after IIT-Delhi, acting on the Supreme Court's direction, concluded that only one of the answers to a question in the physics paper was correct

Revised NEET UG 2024 results declared: How to check revised scores

The initial NEET UG results listed 67 students as sharing the All-India rank 1. Six students received extra marks as compensation for mistakes by invigilators and 44 students received grace marks

Bengal govt passes resolution against NEET-UG, calls it 'education scam'

The West Bengal Assembly proposed reinstating the state's previous Joint Entrance-Medical examination, which was formerly administered by the state government

Supreme Court commences hearing on pleas related to row over NEET-UG

The Supreme Court on Monday commenced hearing on a batch of petitions related to the controversy-ridden medical entrance exam, NEET-UG 2024. The top court was told by a counsel for NEET-UG aspirants that the National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts the prestigious exam, has admitted to paper leak and the dissemination of the leaked question paper' through WhatsApp. At the outset, the bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and justices JB Pardiwla and Manoj Misra asked the counsel for the parties as to what emerged from the declaration of the centre-wise and city-wise results of the exam. The hearing is underway. An analysis of results released by NTA on Saturday indicated that the candidates who allegedly benefitted from the paper leak and other irregularities did not do well. Some centres, however, showed high concentration of well-performing students, it revealed. The voluminous data of over 32 lakh candidates from 4,750 centres was not released in a cumulative for

NEET-UG 2024 row: Over 11,000 candidates scored zero or negative marks

NEET-UG: Over 2,250 candidates scored zero marks, while more than 9,400 candidates received negative marks

NEET-UG results: 682 highest at Haryana centre that saw 6 scoring full

No NEET-UG candidate has scored above 682 in the revised results for a centre in Haryana that was under the scanner after six aspirants who took the medical entrance exam there on May 5 got 720 out of 720. The scores were revised after a retest was ordered by the Supreme Court following allegations of inflation of marks due to grace being awarded. Only 13 candidates of the Hardayal Public School centre in Haryana's Jhajjar managed to score more than 600 marks, according to the centre and city-wise results declared on Sunday by the National Testing Agency (NTA) that is in the eye of a storm over alleged irregularities in the conduct of the 2024 NEET-UG, including paper leak. The NEET-UG examination was held on May 5 across 4,750 centres and around 24 lakh candidates appeared for it. The results were expected to be declared on June 14 but were announced on June 4, with the NTA saying the evaluation of the answer sheets got completed earlier. Sixty-seven students scored a perfect 720

NEET-UG row: CBI arrests 'mastermind', 2 MBBS students who acted as solvers

The CBI Saturday arrested one of the masterminds, a B.Tech graduate from NIT-Jamshedpur, in the NEET-UG paper leak case and two MBBS students who allegedly acted as "solvers", officials said. With the fresh arrests, the total number of people held so far by the agency in six cases related to the alleged irregularities has now reached 21, they said. The two MBBS students arrested on Saturday are from a medical school in Bharatpur, Rajasthan. Second-year MBBS student Kumar Mangalam Bishnoi and first-year student Deepender Sharma were present in Hazaribagh on May 5, the date of NEET UG examination, and were allegedly acting as "solvers" for the paper stolen by Pankaj Kumar, an engineer, who was arrested earlier, they said. They said Sashikant Paswan alias Sashi alias Pasu, a B.Tech (Electrical) passout from the National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur was acting in tandem with Kumar and Rockey, who was also arrested earlier.

NEET-UG 2024: 'Paper solved in 45 minutes before exam?', SC asks Centre

NEET-UG update: Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the NTA, said an individual photographed the exam papers at a centre in Jharkhand's Hazaribagh between 8 am and 9:20 am on the exam day

NEET-UG row: CBI arrests four MBBS students of Aiims Patna, seals rooms

The CBI on Thursday arrested four MBBS students of AIIMS Patna in connection with the NEET-UG paper leak case, officials said. Three students of MBBS third year -- Chandan Singh, Rahul Anant, and Kumar Shanu -- and one second year student -- Karan Jain -- were arrested after detailed questioning by a CBI team, they said. The students were taken away from their hostel rooms on Wednesday in the presence of senior faculty members of AIIMS who were informed in advance that the students needed for the probe, the officials said. The agency has sealed their hostel rooms, they said. "The CBI has taken away four students. Chandan Singh, Rahul Anant, and Kumar Shanu are third year students and Karan Jain is a second year student," AIIMS Patna Director G K Paul said. He said a senior officer had sent them photographs and mobile numbers of students who were required in the probe. A team of CBI picked up the students in the presence of dean, hostel warden, and OSD to Director, Paul said. The

SC directs NTA to publish centre-wise results of NEET-UG by July 20

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the National Testing Agency (NTA) to declare by 12 noon of July 20 the centre and city-wise results of NEET-UG 2024 while masking the identities of aspirants. As it strove to address the allegations of malpractices in the conduct of the examination, a bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud said any order for conducting it afresh has to be on concrete conclusion that the sanctity of the entire process was affected. The top court will resume hearing the arguments on July 22 on a batch of pleas seeking cancellation, re-test and a court-monitored probe into the allegations of large-scale malpractices in the prestigious test held on May 5. During the day-long hearing, the bench asked the counsel for the aspirants to establish their claim about extensive irregularities in holding the examination, including leak of question paper, warranting cancellation and a re-test. The court said it prima facie appeared that the question paper leak was ...

NEET 2024 row: Higher marks not due to 'systemic failure', NTA tells SC

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear petitions on Thursday regarding the cancellation of the NEET-UG 2024 exam, conducted on May 5

NEET-UG 2024: MCC asks medical institutes to release seat matrix by July 20

MCC issues notification urging institutions to upload their seat information promptly

JNU, DU plan weekend classes, shorter breaks as UG admissions get delayed

Universities in the national capital, including JNU and DU, plan to hold weekend classes and have a shorter winter break in view of delayed admissions due to the uncertainty around the declaration of CUET UG results. The National Testing Agency (NTA), the body that conducts the entrance exam, announced on Sunday a re-test for over 1,000 CUET UG candidates on July 19, following complaints from candidates, including issues of time loss due to the distribution of the wrong question paper. The agency, however, has not clarified on the declaration of result, which was originally scheduled to be released on June 30, and has now been delayed by over two weeks. The final answer key of the undergraduate admission test has not been notified yet. A senior JNU official said the delay in the declaration of results will impact the university's plan to release an unified academic calendar for all the batches of students. The university will have to rely on extra classes on Saturdays and may have

SC issues notices on NTA's pleas asking NEET-UG row cases transfer to it

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to private parties on a batch of pleas filed by the National Testing Agency (NTA) seeking transfer of cases pending against it in various high courts on the NEET-UG row to the top court to avoid multiplicity of litigations. Earlier, a vacation bench had on June 14 issued notices to the parties on similar pleas by the NTA. The NTA had submitted that several pleas seeking cancellation of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance TestUnder Graduate (NEET-UG), 2024 over allegations of question paper leak and other malpractices are pending in several high courts. Advocate Vardhaman Kaushik, appearing for the NTA, urged a bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice JB Pardiwala on Monday that the fresh batch of pleas be also transferred to the apex court as they pertained to the same issue. "Issue notice and tag," the bench said, adding that these pleas will also be taken up together with the pending petitions on the NEET-UG row on Ju

NEET-PG: Exam cancelled amid impersonation threats; to be held on August 11

NEET UG 2024 row: On June 22, the Centre cancelled the NEET-PG exam scheduled for June 23 as a 'precautionary measure'

NTA to take CUET-UG retest for over 1,000 on July 19, no clarity on results

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has decided to conduct a retest for over 1000 candidates of CUET UG on July 19. The NTA had on July 7 released the provisional answer key of Common University Entrance Test (CUET)-UG 2024 and announced that it will conduct a retest for CUET UG candidates between July 15 and 19 if any grievance raised by students about the conduct of the exam is found to be correct. While the agency notified the retest schedule on Sunday, it remained silent on the declaration of the result which has already been delayed by over two weeks with the final answer key not yet notified. The delay in CUET-UG results comes amid a raging row over alleged irregularities in competitive exams, including NEET and NET. According to NTA sources, the distribution of question papers in language not opted by the candidates is one of the reasons for the retest and the 1000-odd candidates are spread across six states. "Some of the grievances include time loss due to distribution of wr