Several medical aspirants are not satisfied with the answer key for NEET-undergraduate which was released by CBSE on Thursday. The aspirants are planning to challenge it.
The answer key was released after the Supreme Court lifted the stay on the assessment of NEET and announcement of results.
Students and coaching institutes are claiming that answers for at least two questions- one each in zoology and chemistry, are incorrect in the answer key. However, the CBSE’s expert committee has already identified two questions in the physics section in the many of the sets to be ambiguous.
Many students also said that the two questions asked on the physiology of frogs were out of syllabus. However, they are upset about the committee not acknowledging their request. The paper has 180 questions, each carrying four marks.
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In four question sets, two physics questions were marked as ‘multiple/wrong options’ in the answer key.
An official said, “this will either mean that the NEET committee will omit these questions or give eight marks to all students as bonus”.
A CBSE official said the expert committee reviews the questions before putting up the answer key.
“They already identified two questions as ambiguous in the answer key… How it will be accounted for during the assessment will be their prerogative”
Nishit Chhaya, an aspirant from Airoli while talking about how students waste time in finding solutions to these ambiguous questions said, “also in a competitive exam like NEET, every mark will make a difference in the rank. If there are ambiguities in a handful of questions, and if it is not addressed, students will end up losing these precious marks. To ask something which is not even there in the syllabus is unfair”.
The board official said the decision of the committee is final as the challenges have been reviewed by them. However, students can challenge the questions till 6 pm on Friday. The Supreme Court has asked CBSE to announce NEET results by June 26.
