NEET PG 2024: Supreme Court to Hear Plea on October 4

The NEET PG case will now be heard by the Supreme Court, most likely on October 4. A group of NEET PG applicants has filed a plea contesting the National Board of Education for Medical Sciences (NBEMS) design for the exam.

Ishika Jain and others have filed a plea seeking the release of the NEET PG 2024 answer keys, question papers, and standardization of marks because the test was divided into two sections. The goal is to ensure transparency in the selection process. The NEET PG applicant's representatives, Senior Advocate Vibha Datta Makhija and Advocate Tanvi Dubey, asserted that NBEMS made impromptu modifications to the exam format.

“There needs to be a standardised approach,” Makhija stated, noting that there were no guidelines governing the administration of the tests. Every decision was made based on a single information bulletin that the authorities might change at any time. Questioning the last-minute modifications by the Bench. "It's really unusual... Three days before the examinations (a different exam design was used)... Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud, who is in charge of a three-judge panel, declared that students will have a breakdown. They claim that you have not established any regulations, that everything is based on the pamphlet, and that the exam's structure is altered three days prior to the test. The CJI questioned, "How can you do all this?

The Bench, however, disregarded the CBI counsel's claim that they "haven't done anything new or unusual." Records accessible on the Supreme Court website indicate that the case was originally scheduled for September 27 but has since been rescheduled for October 4.

NEET PG is used to determine admission to post-MBBS and post-BDS programs. The findings, which the NBE released on August 23, alarmed students because of their surprisingly low rankings. This year, the exam was administered in two shifts as opposed to the usual one. NBE implemented the normalization procedure when the new system was put in place.