The Crossbill News Desk
The National Testing Agency (NTA), already facing intense scrutiny over the NEET-UG paper leak controversy and the subsequent re-examination, has come under fresh criticism after errors were detected in the Physics paper of the medical entrance test.
According to reports, at least two questions in the paper contained mistakes, prompting concerns about the quality of the examination process.
The New Indian Express reported that one of the Physics questions will be dropped entirely because none of the answer options provided is correct. As per examination rules, all candidates will receive four bonus marks for the flawed question.
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 key uploaded by the NTA has marked the response to that question as “drop”.
Another discrepancy has emerged in a question related to electromagnetic waves. According to the answer key, two options have been accepted as correct answers, with the appropriate response depending on the question booklet allotted to a candidate.
Despite repeated requests from The New Indian Express, neither the NTA nor the Union Education Ministry has commented on the errors identified in the examination paper.
Meanwhile, ANI reported that the provisional answer keys, released on June 25, attracted more than 10,000 objections from candidates. The window for raising challenges remained open until June 28.
The developments come amid continuing fallout from the NEET-UG controversy. Another report by The New Indian Express noted that over two lakh candidates who had appeared for the original examination on May 3 chose not to sit for the re-test conducted on June 21.
The period between the two examinations was also marked by tragedy, with reports indicating that 21 students died by suicide during the intervening weeks.
Questions have also been raised about other examinations conducted by the NTA.
“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.
A report by The Telegraph found that 67 out of 150 questions in the English paper of another NTA-conducted examination had been repeated from the previous year's test.
The latest revelations have once again intensified criticism of the agency's functioning.
According to reports, at least two questions in the paper contained mistakes, prompting concerns about the quality of the examination process.
The New Indian Express reported that one of the Physics questions will be dropped entirely because none of the answer options provided is correct. As per examination rules, all candidates will receive four bonus marks for the flawed question.
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 key uploaded by the NTA has marked the response to that question as “drop”.
Another discrepancy has emerged in a question related to electromagnetic waves. According to the answer key, two options have been accepted as correct answers, with the appropriate response depending on the question booklet allotted to a candidate.
Despite repeated requests from The New Indian Express, neither the NTA nor the Union Education Ministry has commented on the errors identified in the examination paper.
Meanwhile, ANI reported that the provisional answer keys, released on June 25, attracted more than 10,000 objections from candidates. The window for raising challenges remained open until June 28.
The developments come amid continuing fallout from the NEET-UG controversy. Another report by The New Indian Express noted that over two lakh candidates who had appeared for the original examination on May 3 chose not to sit for the re-test conducted on June 21.
The period between the two examinations was also marked by tragedy, with reports indicating that 21 students died by suicide during the intervening weeks.
Questions have also been raised about other examinations conducted by the NTA.
“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.
A report by The Telegraph found that 67 out of 150 questions in the English paper of another NTA-conducted examination had been repeated from the previous year's test.
The latest revelations have once again intensified criticism of the agency's functioning.
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