The Supreme Court has asked IIT Delhi to form an expert panel to give its opinion on the decision of the National Testing Agency (NTA) to treat two options as the correct answer to a Physics question in this year’s NEET-UG examination. 

 

The bench, headed by Chief Justice of India, D.Y. Chandrachud, directed the expert team to remit its opinion to the Apex Court’s registrar by 12 noon today. The batch of petitions, alleging irregularities in the conduct of the NEET-UG exam, questioned the award of grace marks in respect of a contentious Physics question. 

 

It added that 44 candidates were able to secure full marks on account of the ambiguous question. They contended that the NTA’s decision to award compensatory marks contradicts its own instruction, asking students to follow the latest NCERT textbook. The matter will be taken up for further hearing today.