No grace marks for Tamil NEET students: SC quashes Madras HC's 'blind allocation' order

Three months after Madras High Court ordered awarding of 196 grace marks for students who had attempted National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2018 in Tamil, the Supreme Court today quashed the HC order.

The Madurai bench of Madras High Court in July had ordered Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to award 196 grace marks to NEET students on account of error in translation. The order was stayed by the Supreme Court

The High Court had awarded 196 marks -- 4 marks each for 49 erroneously translated questions -- in the Tamil version of this year's NEET exam.


The top court also directed that from year 2019-20,
(Inputs from PTI)