NTA declares final NEET-UG results, number of toppers down to 17 from 61

The National Testing Agency NTA Friday declared the final results of controversyridden NEETUG entrance exam declaring that 17 candidates have shared the top rank down from 61 in the revised results while thousands of others have seen their marks and rankings change significantlyThe number of qualifying candidates and the cutoff has also seen a marginal dipThe rerevised results have been released three days after the Supreme Court rejected multiple petitions demanding a NEETUG 2024 retest because of alleged paper leaks and other malpracticesThe top court had however asked the NTA to revise the merit list in light of a controversial physics question which had two possible answers and the correct option was suggested by a threemember expert panel set up by the SCIt led to a complete reworking of NEET ranks and scores for all 23 million students The scores of at least 420000 students including 44 of the 61 who achieved perfect 720 decreased by five points with the court invalidating the disputed marks they got for the Physics questionHowever the exact impact on their rankings is not immediately clearThe exams was held on May 5 and the results were announced on June 4 Doubts about the sanctity of the exam arose when a total of 67 students scored a perfect 720 unprecedented in the NTAs historyThe number of candidates sharing the top rank came down to 61 after the NTA announced the revised results on July 1 after withdrawing grace marks awarded to six candidates to make up for loss of time some centres On Friday the NTA declared the rerevised resultAlong with a decrease in the number of toppers the qualifying cutoffs and number of qualified candidates have also decreased in the the rerevised results of the National EligibilitycumEntrance TestUndergraduate NEETUGSeventeen candidates have retained the perfect 720 marks and were declared the toppers followed by six who scored 716 and 77 with 715 marks which forms the cohort of top 100 candidatesFortyfour out of the 67 candidates who were earlier declared toppers when the results were originally announced on June 4 had scored full marks because of the marks awarded for that particular physics questionThe percentage of female toppers increased in the revised results from 16 per cent to 23 per cent as there are four candidates in the top 17 The percentage of female among top 100 is 22 per centThere are four candidates from Rajasthan three from Maharashtra two each from Delhi and Uttar Pradesh who are among the toppers The other six are from Kerala Chandigarh Tamil Nadu Punjab Bihar and West BengalThe total number of qualified candidates stands at 1315853 down by 415 candidates There are 15 statesUnion Territories which registered an increase in the total number of qualified candidates These include Goa Gujarat Kerala Uttarakhand and West Bengal among othersEven though the number of qualifiers decreased marginally with over 165 lakh candidates UP has the highest numbers followed by Maharashtra 142 lakh and Rajasthan 121 lakh The other two states with over 85000 qualifiers are Karnataka 88887 and Kerala 86713The revision of the results also brought down the qualifying cutoffs iquest for the unreserved and economically weaker section the new cutoff range is 720162 down from 164 while for the OBC SC ST it is 161127Categorywise the number of qualifiers decreased for unreserved EWS and OBC while it increased for SC and STIn a major setback to unsuccessful aspirants of NEETUG 2024 the Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the pleas seeking cancellation and retest of the controversyridden exam holding that there was no evidence on record to conclude that it was vitiated on account of systemic breach of its sanctityThe verdict came as a shot in the arm for the embattled NDA government and the National Testing Agency NTA which were facing strong criticism and protests on streets and in Parliament over alleged largescale malpractices like question paper leak fraud and impersonation in the prestigious test held on May 5The CBI is probing alleged irregularities in NEETUG 2024 and has lodged six FIRs The NEETUG is conducted by the National Testing Agency for admissions to MBBS BDS AYUSH and other related courses in government and private institutionsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever