Conduct NEET-PG 2025 in single shift: Top court to exam board
The
Supreme Court
on Friday directed the
National Board of Examination
(NBE) to hold the entrance exam for
post-graduate medical courses
(NEET-PG 2025) in a single shift ensuring transparency. A bench comprising Justice Vikram Nath, Justice Sanjay Kumar and Justice NV Anjaria passed the order while hearing a batch of petitions challenging the decision of the NBE to conduct NEET-PG 2025 in two shifts.
The bench directed the NBE to not hold NEET-PG in two shifts to remove the element of arbitrariness.
The court observed that there is still time to make necessary arrangements for the exam, scheduled to be held on June 15. "Holding examination in two shifts creates arbitrariness and also does not keep all the candidates at the same level. Any two question papers can never be said to be of an identical level of difficulty or ease. There has to be a variation," the bench said in its order. Turning down the contention of the NBE that there were not enough centres to hold the exam in a single shift, the top court said, "The exam is to be held all over the country, not just one city. We are not ready to accept that in the entire country, and considering the technological advancements in this country, the examining body could not find enough centres to hold the examination and one shift."
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The NBE argued that normalisation is applied to make the levels of both papers the same. To this, the bench said that normalisation may be applied in exceptional cases, but not in a routine manner year after year. "The examination for this year is scheduled for June 15. There is still more than two weeks for the examining body to identify the centres to hold the examination in one shift," the bench said. "We accordingly direct the respondents to ensure further arrangements for holding the examination in one shift and also ensure that full transparency is maintained and secured centres are identified."
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