PATNA: Amid the controversy over the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for admission into medical colleges, four men arrested from Bihar have confessed that the question paper for the entrance exam was leaked the previous day.
NEET-UG 2024 is a burning issue that has seen students hit the streets over allegations of grace marks awarded to over 1,500 students and question paper leaks.
While the grace marks were later scrapped and the students were offered a re-test, the paper leak was denied by the education minister.
The four men arrested from Bihar include three aspirants – Anurag Yadav, Nitish Kumar, Amit Anand – and Sikandar Yadavendu, a junior engineer in Danapur municipal council.
The students admitted that they received the question paper the day prior to their exam and were made to memorize it. In a statement to the cops, they said the exact questions were asked in the exam the next day.
Nearly 24 lakh students appeared for the NEET-UG 2024 for undergraduate medical courses on May 5.
