NEET-UG 2025 : Supreme Court Dismisses Plea Challenging Results & Answer Key
The Supreme Court today dismissed a plea challenging the final answer key and result of NEET-UG 2025 exam held by the National Testing Agency.
A bench of Justices PS Narasimha and R Mahadevan was dealing with candidate-Shivam Gandhi Raina's plea, alleging that there was mistake in the answer given by the NTA to one question (Question No.136, Code No.47)
At the outset, the bench said that it had dismissed a similar matter on Wednesday. "Exam matter we are not going to interfere. You may be right on principle that there could be multiple correct answers. Despite that, to interfere in an all-India exam at this stage, will create...," Justice Narsimha told Senior Advocate R Balasubramaniam, the petitioner's lawyer.
The petitioner's lawyer replied that the Supreme Court interfered in the 2024 NEET-UG exam and ordered the correction of mistakes based on an expert report given by IIT-Delhi. "It is a matter affecting the career of the students. One mark difference will mean a lot. So many students are affected by his," Balasubramaniam submitted. He requested the constitution of an expert committee to ascertain the matter.
However, the bench refused to change its stand, saying that it cannot interfere in an individual matter in a national exam. Justice Narasimha said that the Supreme Court's interference in 2024 was due to widespread grievances regarding the discrepancies and shortcomings in the conduct of the exam.
As per claims, the petitioner secured an All India Rank of 6783 and a General Category Rank of 3195. If the incorrect answer was corrected, he was to get 5 more marks, improving his position.
Through the present case, he sought 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. He also sought stay of the counselling process as an interim relief.
The question in dispute 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 was the correct answer as per the NCERT Class XI Biology text book.
The petition was filed through AoR Sriram Parakkat.
Case Title: Shivam Gandhi Raina v. National Testing Agency | WP(C) 620/2025