New Delhi: The Supreme Court of
India on Monday instructed the National Testing Agency to declare NEET 2020
results this Friday i.e., October 16th. The highest court in the
country has also instructed the agency to conduct the examination on October 14th
for those who missed the examination last month due to testing positive for the
coronavirus and for the students stuck in the containment zones across the
country. The court has given the new orders on Monday after CBSE had requested
to take the students who either tested positive for the coronavirus or stuck in
the containment zones into consideration and permit them to take the
examination. The court heard the request by CBSE and granted it.
NEET 2020 examination was
conducted on 16th of the last month under strict supervision of
concerned authorities and officials. The examination was deemed to be
efficiently executed by following the guidelines issued by the government in
the current covid climate. Nearly 1.6 million students were scheduled to appear
for the examination last month but only 85 percentage of those students were
able to appear for the examination. The rest of the students hopes for
appearing in the examination were hampered by ill health caused by covid-19 or
being the residents of the containment zones in the country. The Union Minister
of Education Dr. Ramesh Sishank had tweeted that the precise timing of the
results would be announced soon and the students who were unable to appear for
the last month’s examination would be given a second chance to appear in the
examination on October 14th. The students could breath easily
knowing that they could still attend the examination this year. The examination
conducted last month was reported to be relatively easier and the students are
expecting higher cut-offs this year due to the same reason.
