<p>A group of aspiring doctors on Thursday approached the Supreme Court contending that the answer keys of four questions in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test held on May 5 for admission to MBBS and BDS courses in medical colleges across the country were wrong, which jeopardised the career prospects of lakhs of students.</p>.<p>A bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and Ajay Rastogi agreed to hear the writ petition filed by advocate Mahfooz Nazki on behalf of Hyderabad-based Kayathi Rohan Reddy and three others.</p>.<p>The candidates sought a direction to quash the final answer key published on June 5 by the National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducted the NEET UG -2019. They sought a direction to the NTA to publish a revised answer key as four of them were “demonstrably and palpably wrong”.</p>.<p>The court which initially declined to look into the matter finally allowed a plea by the counsel to consider it.</p>.<p>The petitioners said that after going through the answer keys first published by the NTA on May 29, they were shocked to find out that a number of questions were wrong. They sent a representation on May 30, pointing out errors in the official answer keys. Subsequently, a revised answer keys were published on June 5.</p>.<p>“To the shock and chagrin of the petitioners, not only did the keys continue to have errors, some answers that had been correctly notified earlier stood changed to a wrong answer,” their petition stated.</p>.<p>Citing the NCERT textbooks, the petitioners contended they were severely prejudiced as the discrepancies in the answer keys remained, marring their chances. The candidates, who sent a fresh representation on June 9, were told that the matter had already been referred to the experts who had published revised answer keys after checking it, their petition stated.</p>
<p>A group of aspiring doctors on Thursday approached the Supreme Court contending that the answer keys of four questions in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test held on May 5 for admission to MBBS and BDS courses in medical colleges across the country were wrong, which jeopardised the career prospects of lakhs of students.</p>.<p>A bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and Ajay Rastogi agreed to hear the writ petition filed by advocate Mahfooz Nazki on behalf of Hyderabad-based Kayathi Rohan Reddy and three others.</p>.<p>The candidates sought a direction to quash the final answer key published on June 5 by the National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducted the NEET UG -2019. They sought a direction to the NTA to publish a revised answer key as four of them were “demonstrably and palpably wrong”.</p>.<p>The court which initially declined to look into the matter finally allowed a plea by the counsel to consider it.</p>.<p>The petitioners said that after going through the answer keys first published by the NTA on May 29, they were shocked to find out that a number of questions were wrong. They sent a representation on May 30, pointing out errors in the official answer keys. Subsequently, a revised answer keys were published on June 5.</p>.<p>“To the shock and chagrin of the petitioners, not only did the keys continue to have errors, some answers that had been correctly notified earlier stood changed to a wrong answer,” their petition stated.</p>.<p>Citing the NCERT textbooks, the petitioners contended they were severely prejudiced as the discrepancies in the answer keys remained, marring their chances. The candidates, who sent a fresh representation on June 9, were told that the matter had already been referred to the experts who had published revised answer keys after checking it, their petition stated.</p>
