NEET: Why did students get more marks this year, NTA told the formula for NEET result

NEET Latest News in Hindi: The result of the medical entrance exam NEET-UG 2024 has been the best in the last five years, a major reason for which is that this time the paper was easier than in previous years. The National Testing Agency (NTA) says that when the paper is easy, the average marks also increase and the cutoff also increases. The same has been seen in the 2024 result. Along with this, this time the highest number of 23.33 lakh students had appeared in the exam so far.

NEET 2024: How much was it Well Average Marks

In the detailed report released by NTA regarding the result, it has been told that this year the average marks out of 720 are 323.55. In 2020 it was 297.18. The minimum cutoff or score to qualify NEET in the general category is 164. This score was 137 in 2023. In the previous three years, this score was 117, 138 and 147 in 2020.

A senior official of NTA says that in the year when the paper is a little difficult, the cutoff goes down. But this time the reason for the high cutoff and the number of high scoring students is the participation of record number of students and the paper being easy.

NEET Grace Marks: Marks given due to wastage of time

NTA has stated in its report that after the paper on 5 May 2024, some students filed petitions in Punjab and Haryana, Delhi and Chhattisgarh High Court complaining about wasting time in the exam. After which NTA formed a high power committee. The committee watched the CCTV footage of all those centers and gave its report after looking at all the aspects. After the committee’s report, 1563 students were given grace marks. After which the marks of these students ranged from -20 to 720.

NEET Topper: This is how the NEET topper list was made

NTA received 13373 challenges in a Physics question because there were different answers in the old and new NCERT books. Due to this, NTA had to accept both the options as correct. NTA says that out of the 67 candidates who got 720 marks, 44 are those who got marks due to revision of the answer key. Whereas 6 got grace marks due to their time being wasted. While 17 candidates had already scored 720 marks originally.

From the paper being easy to the fact that there were multiple toppers from one exam centre, everything was raised on social media. Answering all these questions, a senior NTA official has said that there is no discrepancy in the result and the result is correct on all parameters. Whatever misleading reports are coming on social media, their answers have been given in this detailed report of NTA. Due to grace marks, the scores of two students were 718 and 719.