NTA Drops a Question in NEET-UG Re-Test, Another Has Two Correct Answers
New Delhi: The National Testing Agency, in the eye of the storm after the paper leak in the NEET undergraduate medical entrance exam that necessitated a re-examination, has returned to the spotlight. The Physics question paper has two mistakes in it, the answer keys uploaded by NTA show.
The New Indian Express was the first to report that the NTA will be dropping a question as it has no correct answer – a must in a multiple-choice. This will lead to a bonus mark of four for all students.
The report quotes Harpreet Singh, a director at a coaching institute in Delhi as having said, “The question on Vernier Callipers has four answer options. All four are wrong. The correct answer is 1.6 cm and it does not figure among the options for question 40.”
The answer to the relevant question in the answer key is shown as "drop".
Another question, on electromagnetic waves, has two correct answers, both of which will be treated as correct. The answer key shows two options for the right answer, based on which question booklet the candidate got.
Despite requests from TNIE, neither the NTA nor the Education Ministry have commented on the errors.
ANI has reported that more than 10,000 objections were received against the provisional answer keys which were released on June 25. The keys were open for challenge till June 28.
Another TNIE report noted that more than two lakh students who took the original May 3 NEET exam did not appear for the subsequent retest held on June 21.
As many as 21 students died by suicide in the intervening period between the two exams.
The NEET is not the only NTA-conducted exam under the scanner. A report on The Telegraph found that 67 out of 150 questions in the English paper were repeated from the 2024 exam.
"When it comes to exams that are handled by the NTA itself, the track record continues to be atrocious," Congress leader Jairam Ramesh had tweeted.
This article went live on July third, two thousand twenty six, at fifty minutes past three in the afternoon.It required the might of the armed forces and the whole of the government at every level to conduct Re-NEET on June 21, 2026. It reflected the complete failure of the Modi Government to conduct exams without such unprecedented mobilization.
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— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) July 2, 2026
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