NEET-UG 2025 : Candidate's Plea In Supreme Court Challenges Result, Alleges Error In Answer Key

A writ petition has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the final answer key and the result of the NEET-UG 2025 exam held by the National Testing Agency.

The petitioner, a candidate of the NEET-UG exam, alleges that there were manifest errors in the provisional answer key, which were not corrected by the NTA in its final answer key, despite the objections submitted by the petitioner.

According to the petitioner, the answer to Question No.136 (Code No.47) is wrong. The petitioner has secured an All India Rank of 6783 and General Category Rank of 3195. If the incorrect answer is corrected, the petitioner will get 5 more marks, improving his position, the petition states.

The matter will be heard by a partial working days bench comprising Justices PS Narasimha and R Mahadevan tomorrow. 

The petitioner seeks a direction to the NTA to correct the alleged error in the answer key as per the authoritative NCERT texts and revise the results accordingly. The petitioner also sought stay of the counselling process as an interim relief.

The disputed question was as follows :

Cardiac activities of the heart are regulated by:

A- Nodal Tissue

B- A special neural centre in the medulla oblongata

C- Adrenal medullary hormones

D- Adrenal cortical hormones

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A, B and D only.

2. A, B and C only.

3. A, B, C and D.

4. A, C and D only.

According to the petitioner, option 3 is the correct answer as per the NCERT Class XI Biology text book.

The petition has been filed through AoR Sriram Parakkat.

Case : Shivam Gandhi Raina v National Testing Agency | WP(c) 620/2025