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New Delhi/Mumbai: Coaching centres that train millions of students for competitive exams expressed apprehensions over the latest national pre-medical entrance test after allegations of arbitrary grace marks and paper leaks, even as the government defended the testing authority and the conduct of exams. In an unusual development, a record 67 candidates shared the top rank in the latest National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) to select students for medical, dental and related courses. Six of them were from the same exam centre, sparking student protests and suspicions of leaked question papers.

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Supreme Court on Thursday that it has decided to cancel the grace marks awarded to 1,563 students in this year's all-India medical entrance examination, National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (Undergraduate) (NEET-UG) 2024 due to allegations of discrepancies. These candidates will be notified of their actual scores, excluding the grace marks, and will be given the option to appear for a re-test, the counsel representing the Union government said.

triplets and fourteen sets of twins. Twelve sets of fraternal twins and two sets of identical twins were among the 543 students who received diplomas at Cooper City High School's graduation ceremony. While, as per the reports of 'New York Post', Broward County Public School officials don't know if there's an official record for the most twins in a graduating class, they think they might have just set it.

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Congress on Thursday again demanded a Supreme Court-monitored probe into the NEET exam issue, and asserted that the anger in the country over the matter will «reverberate inside Parliament as well». The opposition party also sought the removal of the National Testing Agency (NTA) Director General and claimed that the BJP government's attitude towards the ongoing demand for an inquiry into the NEET examination is «irresponsible and insensitive». Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said that in the last 10 years, the Modi government has ruined the future of crores of youth through paper leaks and rigging. «Grace Marks was not the only problem in NEET exam. There has been rigging, papers have been leaked, corruption has taken place. The future of 24 lakh students appearing in the NEET examination is at stake due to the actions of the Modi government,» the Congress president said.

NTA) has been cancelled. Affected students will be given the option to retake the exam. The Supreme Court was addressing multiple petitions concerning the NEET-UG 2024 examination, which determines admissions for MBBS, BDS, and other medical courses.

Supreme Court that the decision to give grace marks to 1,563 candidates of NEET-UG 2024 by the National Testing Agency (NTA) has been cancelled. These 1,563 students will also be given an option to apply for a re-test. The top court was hearing petitions concerning the dispute over the NEET-UG, 2024 exam for entrance into MBBS, BDS, and similar programs.

Get all the NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live Updates here on LiveMint!The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court Wednesday asked the National Testing Agency to produce the original records of a student who has alleged she is yet to get her NEET result.The bench has fixed June 18 as the next date of hearing in the matter.A vacation bench of Justice Rajesh Singh Chauhan passed the order on a writ petition filed by student Aayushi Patel. (PTI)The examination was held by the NTA on May 5 across 4,750 centres and around 24 lakh candidates took it.

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EdTech firm 'Physics Wallah', Alakh Pandey, has moved the Supreme Court against alleged random award of grace marks by the National Testing Agency to over 1,500 candidates who took the controversy-ridden NEET-UG, 2024 for admissions to MBBS, BDS and others courses. The top court had said on Tuesday the sanctity of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG), 2024 has been affected and sought responses from the Centre and the National Testing Agency (NTA) on another plea seeking holding of the examination afresh on grounds of alleged question paper leak and other malpractices.

Andhra Pradesh schools are gearing up to reopen their doors for the 2024-25 academic year, with classes set to commence on Thursday, June 13. Originally slated to resume on June 12, the reopening date has been pushed back due to the swearing-in ceremony of Nara Chandrababu Naidu as the new Chief Minister of the state, scheduled for the same day. Consequently, the state education department has declared Wednesday a holiday for all schools, with classes now slated to resume on Thursday.

NEET, an all-India pre-medical entrance test, has had a chequered past. This year, a new controversy has hit the proverbial fan that questions the very fairness of the exam. A writ petition is before the Supreme Court contesting the 'arbitrary and illegal' decision of the National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts the exam, to award 'grace marks' to over 1,500 students to compensate for the 'loss of time' during the exam held on May 5. Two other pleas have sought cancellation of the test, alleging a paper leak. This is bad news for an already suspect grading system that does no good for India's educational-professional credibility.

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NEET exam results, students are now calling for the cancellation of the examination and a thorough investigation into alleged discrepancies. Amidst this uproar, a social media ad mocking the NEET exam has gone viral. The advertisement in the newspaper encourages aspirants to consider the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) instead of focusing on NEET.

ministerial pick from Kerala, George Kurien, in the third Modi government is a dyed-in-the-wool BJP man, unwaveringly sticking to his party and its ideology since his student days, at a time when most of his fellow Christians in Kerala had been indifferent to the saffron party. He worked for advancing the BJP in the state by swimming against the Congress and Left tides. While the BJP's emergence as a powerhouse at the Centre and subsequent resolve to tap the social segments in the southern state have, of late, made many more politicians from his community to move closer to the party, Kurien's pick as a minister is seen as the leadership's recognition of an original faithful.