The National Testing Agency (NTA) announced the NEET UG 2024 results on June 4, ahead of the expected schedule. The results are available on the official website, exams.nta.ac.in. This year, the cut-off for general category candidates has increased from 720-137 last year to 720-164. Remarkably, 67 students share the All-India Rank (AIR) 1, all scoring a 99.997129 percentile.
The NEET UG 2024 exam, held on May 5, saw a total of 24,06,079 candidates registered, a 16.85% increase from the previous year. Among them, 9,96,393 were male candidates, 13,31,321 were female candidates, and 17 were transgender candidates. The overall attendance was 96.94%.
Students who challenged the provisional answer key can now check the final answer key to see if their objections were accepted. The results are based on this final answer key, released on the morning of June 4.
One of the notable features of this year's results is the introduction of grace marks for candidates who reported losing time during the examination. NTA received several representations and court cases regarding this issue. The normalisation formula, devised and adopted by the Supreme Court, was applied to compensate for the lost time. Consequently, some candidates received scores of 718 and 719, which sparked questions and concerns among students and parents on social media.
Divyansh from Haryana, one of the toppers, shared his strategy for tackling the exam. He started with simpler questions and gradually moved to more difficult ones. Despite battling a lung disease, Divyansh achieved a perfect score of 720/720.
Another topper, Ved Sunil Kumar Shinde from Nagpur, Maharashtra, also scored 720/720. A student at Allen Career Institute, Ved balanced his NEET preparations with board exams, achieving 95.6% in Class 12. Ved emphasized the importance of focusing on the NCERT syllabus and revising daily. He also practiced previous JEE Mains papers, which he found helpful as some questions overlap with NEET.
The state-wise performance revealed that Uttar Pradesh had the highest number of qualified candidates with 1,65,047 students, followed by Maharashtra with 1,42,665, Rajasthan with 1,21,240, and Tamil Nadu with 89,426. In Delhi, 46,794 students qualified, including four in the top 100 list.
Category-wise results showed 3,33,932 candidates from the general category, 6,18,890 from OBC, 1,78,738 from SC, 68,479 from ST, and 1,16,229 from the EWS category.
The results announcement led to a surge of questions and demands for clarification on social media regarding the grace marks and the scoring anomalies. Some students shared screenshots of their scorecards, highlighting the unusual scores of 718 and 719. The NTA explained that these scores resulted from the implementation of the Supreme Court's normalisation formula to address the reported loss of examination time.
Overall, the NEET UG 2024 results have set new records and introduced new policies, making it a notable year for the exam. Students and parents are now looking forward to the admission process, hoping for clarity and fairness in the aftermath of these unprecedented results.
(Input from various sources)
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