NEET-PG 2025 : Live Updates From Supreme Court On Plea Against Double-Shift Exam

Acharya: we want to avoid human intervention in the exam.

Counsel for respondent: in the online method the computer checks the paper.

Bench: you find a solution for conducting it offline.

Acharya: the process started in March. It will get delayed and the entire session will be disrupted. Whole year will go.

Counsel for petitioners: the system rewards luck.

J Nath: why can't you do it straight forward why do you need an online exam?

Justice Sanjay Kumar: why do you need an online exam? it is just a multiple choice question exam.

Counsel for petitioner: UG with so many candidates in conducted in one session.

Acharya: that is a handwritten exam.

Bench: We will do a handwritten exam.

Acharya: if it is so Prejudicial and arbitrary why aren't more students challenging it?

Acharya: only a few candidates have problem with this out of 2 lakhs 50 thousand students.

Acharya: ultimately it is the candidates who will suffer because we will not be able to start the session on time.

Counsel for petitioner: organisation like TCS is equipped to provide the centres.

Acharya: If now it is held in one session it will become very chaotic. We won't be able to hold the exam on the schedule.

Acharya: the exam is fixed on 15th June. All arrangements have been made. At this stage if you stay we will be going beyond the schedule which has been fixed by the supreme court. then the whole session will be interrupted.

Acharya: there is no prejudice that is being cause to them.

J Nath: how can it stay the same? there are different question papers. They can never be the same.

Acharya: appropriate difficulty level of both the shift is kept at the same. After that there is normalization. So even if there is slight difference between difficulty level the marks are normalised.

J Nath: undergraduate exam the number was much higher.

Acharya: even for this exam we have very limited centres. Infrastructure for Wi-Fi good computers safety security etc. All possible problems have been considered and then this solution has been given.

J Vikram Nath: why do you hold this exam in two shifts?

Senior Advocate Maninder Acharya: the exam is held online. In 2024 NEET UG had to be cancelled due to malpractice. For online exam there are limited centres. All important examinations in which large number of candidates appear are held like this.

Matter taken up.

Counsel: stream is decided based on this exam. It is based on rank. Even a one mark difference will decide whether I get my preferred stream - radiology, gynecology etc. It will make a huge difference on whether I get the University of my choice