A major discrepancy has emerged in the Re-NEET examination result of a student from Kanpur’s Panki area, with her family alleging a serious technical error in the score calculation process by the National Testing Agency. The student, identified as Arya Singh, claims a comparison of her OMR sheet and the final answer key indicates she should have secured 609 marks, while the score displayed on the official portal has changed multiple times since the result was declared.
A Score That Moved Twice in One Night
According to the family, when the NEET result was released Thursday night, Arya checked her scorecard and found she had received 540 marks. When she checked again around 2 am, the displayed score had allegedly dropped to 167. Her father, Rakesh Kumar Singh, a former soldier, alleged the discrepancy stemmed from a technical issue in the OMR sheet uploaded to the NTA portal, specifically that the initial OMR sheet, carrying serial number 3823333, showed question number 77 missing entirely while another question entry appeared duplicated.
The family said that after raising an objection with the NTA, the agency corrected the alleged error in the OMR sheet, but they claim the OMR serial number itself was then changed from 3823333 to 3824338 following the correction, a change that has raised further questions in the family’s mind about the authenticity and consistency of the underlying records. At present, the score displayed on the portal still reportedly shows only 167 marks.
Part of This Year’s Wider Re-NEET Controversy
The case unfolds against the backdrop of a broader controversy already surrounding this year’s exam cycle. This year’s NEET result stems specifically from a Re-NEET conducted after allegations of a paper leak in the original examination, a controversy serious enough that Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu publicly stated the leak had disrupted the plans of millions of students, prompting political parties to launch awareness campaigns questioning the exam’s conduct. Against that backdrop, any further result discrepancy in the re-conducted exam is likely to draw outsized scrutiny.
OMR-related discrepancies are, unfortunately, a recurring feature of NEET results specifically. In 2023, an entire wave of candidates publicly labelled their experience a “NEET result scam” after claiming the marks calculated from their own OMR sheets did not match their declared scores, a controversy serious enough that the Supreme Court had separately issued the NTA notice back in 2021 over similar allegations of OMR sheet irregularities. More recently, in 2025, the Allahabad High Court ordered the NTA to re-check a candidate’s OMR sheet after she claimed a clerical error, misstating her question booklet number, caused her score to be evaluated against an entirely wrong paper, collapsing her result from a projected 589 marks to just 41.
What the Family Has Done and What Comes Next
The student has reportedly submitted complaints to Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and the NTA through email and the social media platform X, sharing supporting documents including the OMR sheet, challenge submission proof, the updated OMR record and the final answer key, while seeking formal clarification from the authorities. Rakesh Kumar Singh has warned that if no satisfactory correction is made within two days, the family will approach the court seeking legal relief, arguing the matter concerns his daughter’s academic future and deserves a transparent verification process rather than an unexplained score change.
Education and examination experts note that discrepancies of this kind require careful verification of raw data, scanned OMR records, answer keys and the underlying result-processing system, and that any technical mismatch should be addressed through a documented review process to maintain candidate confidence in the exam overall. Legal experts added that if a candidate can establish a genuine mismatch between officially issued examination records and a declared result, courts may examine whether due process was followed, as the Allahabad High Court did in the comparable 2025 case, though allegations alone do not establish wrongdoing and the matter would ultimately depend on the technical records produced before the competent authority or court. The NTA has not yet issued a detailed public statement addressing Arya Singh’s specific allegations, and the family remains without a formal response from either the examination authority or the Education Ministry as the matter continues under review.
