The Supreme Court Monday directed the Centre and the National Testing Agency (NTA) to provide the top court with the correct answer of the Physics question. A three-member expert committee from IIT-Delhi will be tasked with stating which option of the Physics question is scientifically correct.
The bench comprising Chief Justice of India, DY Chandrachud, Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra passed this order on July 22 while hearing over 40 petitions related to the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test, Undergraduate (NEET UG) 2024, which has faced allegations relating to paper leak, inflated number of toppers and other irregularities.
In its third hearing, some petitioners raised objection against the NTA’s decision to award grace marks to students for question number 19 of Physics section, that led to 44 students getting the top rank.
This year, a multiple-choice Physics question on atoms opened the floodgates for high scores. The question was based on two statements. The first said: “Atoms are electrically neutral as they contain equal numbers of positive and negative charges.” The second statement said: “Atoms of each element are stable and emit their characteristic spectrum.” As an MCQ question, candidates were asked to choose the “most appropriate answer” from four options: one: First is correct but second is incorrect; Two: first is incorrect but second is correct; Three: both first and second statements are correct; Four: both statements are incorrect.
While as per the new NCERT book, one statement is correct, the old NCERT book states some other answer. On May 29, NTA released its provisional answer key which showed one option being correct, but more than 10,000 candidates challenged the answer key on the grounds that an old version of the Class 12 NCERT textbook inaccurately states, “Atoms of each element are stable.” The correct answer is that atoms of “most” elements are stable, as stated in the new version of the NCERT Chemistry textbook.
The hearing will resume tomorrow as when NTA and Centre will make submissions.
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