SC to hear plea for removing a physics question from NEET 2021

The top court of India will hear today a plea that challenged the NEET 2021 question paper and answer key released by the National Testing Agency (NTA).

Supreme Court will hear a petition today filed by a group of undergraduate medical aspirants alleging that a physics question asked in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2021 was translated incorrectly. The petitioners have urged the court's direction to the National Testing Agency (NTA) to remove this question and release the results again.

The top court has scheduled the hearing on November 24 and a bench led by Justice DY Chandrachud will hear the matter today.

The petitioners have alleged that the question can jeopardize the future of the Hindi speaking candidates by putting them in a disadvantageous position. 

The plea reads, "Discrepancy in the said question has put the Hindi Speaking students/states at a disadvantageous position pushing them back by thousands of years and jeopardizing their future," 

As per these students,  NEET 2021 question paper and the answer key released by NTA has discrepancy and patent error in question number 2 of the Physics section (A) of NEET 2021. In the English to Hindi translation of this particular question, the words "amplitude of current" was removed and the candidates who gave NEET 2021 in Hindi have attempted it on the basis of changed question and arrived at a different answer.

As per the NEET 2021 information bulletin, in case of any translation error, the English version will be considered as the final question.

“In case of any ambiguity in translation of a question in the test, its English version shall be treated as final and the decision of NTA shall be final in this regard,” says the information bulletin.

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