NEET 2022: Rajasthan High Court Seeks NTA's Response In Plea Seeking Re-Evaluation
Justice Ashok Kumar Gaur of Rajasthan High Court has sought reply from the National Testing Agency (NTA) in a plea seeking direction to re-evaluate and re-calculate marks of a candidate in National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate) 2022.The petitioner alleged that he has scored only 395 marks out of a total of 720 marks, which is contrary to the manual calculation done by him,...
Justice Ashok Kumar Gaur of Rajasthan High Court has sought reply from the National Testing Agency (NTA) in a plea seeking direction to re-evaluate and re-calculate marks of a candidate in National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate) 2022.
The petitioner alleged that he has scored only 395 marks out of a total of 720 marks, which is contrary to the manual calculation done by him, wherein he was scoring more than 400 marks.
The plea stated that NTA had committed gross mistake in calculating the marks of the petitioner as he is scoring way more than what marks have been awarded to him as per the computer-based calculation. Hence, as per the plea, the petitioner is not able to score the marks which he ought to have scored as per the attempts of the questions made and answers marked in the OMR sheet.
It has been mentioned in the plea that difficulty of the petitioner has doubled as ESIC has again issued an admission notice wherein their department has allotted seats for wards of the insured persons (IP) for the academic session 2022-2023 and a total of 438 seats have been reserved for this purpose. The plea added that if the petitioner, belonging to the ESIC quota, is not awarded accurate marks which he has scored then he will neither be able to participate in the counselling process nor in the admission process issued by the ESIC.
As per the plea, the petitioner tried to contact the concerned authorities, but in vain and now, he has been sequestered from participating in the counselling process.
Further, the plea alleged that OMR sheet of the petitioner is clincher of the fact that the ovals filled by him are accurate but, the answer key of the petitioner has been checked in an arbitrary and haste manner, putting his future at stake.
In addition, the plea stated that if the OMR sheet of the petitioner is recalculated and correct marks are allotted to him, then he will be eligible for the purpose of participating in the counselling process and henceforth, the same will make him eligible for getting into a medical college.
The court has listed the matter on September 28.
Adv. Abhishek B. Sharma appeared for the petitioner.
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