A NEET-UG aspirant on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court after his marks in the 2026 exam changed three times on the National Testing Authority (NTA) portal in just 24 hours.
According to his petition, the aspirant had estimated his score in the 2026 NEET-UG re-test at around 620-640 marks after comparing the official answer key with his own recorded responses.
However, when the exam result was finally announced on July 16, he claimed his score first showed up on the NTA portal as 650.
After being logged out and attempting to log in again, he allegedly found his score on the portal had changed to 500 marks, and the next day, it had dropped to a shocking low of 135 marks—all within 24 hours of the test results being declared.
The candidate claimed that he received no explanation for the sudden changes in his marks, even after writing to the NTA and filing an RTI application, seeking his original OMR answer sheet and other records, as per a Bar and Bench report.
He then visited the NTA office in New Delhi, where officials showed him an OMR sheet on a computer screen. However, he immediately claimed that the OMR sheet they showed was not the same one that he had filled during the exam.
However, the officials reportedly said that the OMR sheet they showed him on their computer was the only one they had in their records, and that only this would be produced even if he took them to court.
The aspirant has now told the apex court that his aim was not for his result to be re-evaluated, but for his original OMR sheet—and its related computer records—to be preserved and produced, so that it could be independently verified.
This comes just days after the Centre introduced a slew of education reforms in the aftermath of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) ending their protests against the NEET paper leak case.
Apart from fast-track courts and a new anti-paper leak bill passed on Wednesday, one of the reforms was also an independent panel of experts—headed by Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani—to advise the Centre on NTA reforms and future-proofing the exam system.
