NEET-UG: 17 students score 720 in revised results, down from 61

In the revised results announced on Friday, six candidates have scored 716, while the remaining 77 candidates in the top 100 have all scored 715.

From 2019 to 2023, NEET-UG has only seen a maximum of three toppers in one year (in 2021).

Of the 67 candidates who had scored 720 in the results declared in June, 44 got a full score because they got the answer to a Physics question wrong and received grace marks – an additional five marks—for it. The NTA had decided to grant grace marks since the answer they marked was based on an incorrect reference in their old class 12 NCERT science textbook.

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court had asked an expert committee from IIT Delhi to provide the correct answer to the Physics question. Based on the answer provided by IIT Delhi, the Supreme Court then asked the NTA to revise the results and treat only one of the options as the correct answer. With this, the 44 candidates who were given grace marks would have their full score of 720 revised to 715.

With the revised results, the number of candidates who qualified has fallen by 415 – from 13,16,268 to 13,15,853 candidates.

Among the 17 toppers in the revised results, there are no candidates from Haryana, while there are three candidates from Haryana in the top 100 candidates. In the results that were declared in June, four candidates from Haryana had received a full score of 720, and there were four other candidates from Haryana in the top 100.

Of the 1,563 candidates who were given grace marks for loss of time, 494 were from Jhajjar in Haryana, and with the grace marks, six of them had scored a full 720.

In the revised results announced on Friday, the NTA has also marked a fewer number of candidates as having appeared – 135 candidates less. While the results announced on June 4 had shown 23,33,297 candidates as having appeared, the NTA’s revised results say that this includes the “unfair means cases.” The total number of candidates marked as appeared in the revised results now stands at 23,33,162.