SC declines to look into students’ plea on NEET

Why in news?
  • The Supreme Court declined to entertain a students’ petition, which alleged that some questions in this year’s National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) (UG) were out of NCERT syllabus.
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  • About NTA:
    (1) National Testing Agency (NTA) has been established as a premier, specialist, autonomous and self-sustained testing organization to conduct entrance examinations in higher educational institutions.
  • What has court said?
    (1) SC remarked that the National Testing Agency (NTA) had already applied its mind to the contentious questions.
    (2) Contentious questions were pointed out by four Hyderabad-based students.
    (3) All multiple-choice answers in competitive exams cannot be scrutinized by this court.
    (4) The court observed that the NTA’s expert committee had gone through the contentious questions in the NEET (UG) exam, applied their minds and issued revised answer key.
  • Students can move to HC:
    (1) The Bench allowed the four medical aspirants to withdraw their plea and granted them liberty to approach the High Court with their grievances.
Source
The hindu




Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 15th Jun 2019
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