NEET UG 2024 Question Paper Leaked? Thousands Of Aspirants Raise Concern, NTA Responds

Hours after the National Testing Agency (NTA) successfully conducted the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for Undergraduates (NEET UG 2024) in 557 cities in India and 14 cities abroad, a copy of the NEET UG exam paper started doing round the internet and thousands of social media users claimed that question paper was leaked. Soon after the post went viral, aspirants started to worry and requested the examination conducting body to take cognizance of the matter and investigate immediately.

"Scammers are exploiting NEET students by promising leaked papers in exchange of money. Several Telegram channels claim that they will leak NEET UG 2024 paper," said a social media user.

Diving into the past, another social media user said, " A similar incident of NEET paper leak happened in 2021, at that time, 8 people were arrested."

Also, some NEET UG aspirants, who opted for the Hindi medium, complained that they were handed over English question papers at Rajasthan's Girls Higher Secondary Adarsh Vidya Mandir examination center.

Reacting to the buzz and number of complaints, NTA totally junked the claims of paper leak, however, agreed that the wrong question paper was handed over to some students.

The Indian Express quoted an NTA official saying, "Where the instances of 'paper leak' being claimed are completely false and it is being done just to sensationalise the news. In an isolated incident at Girls Higher Secondary Adarsh Vidya Mandir, Mantown, Sawai Madhopur, Hindi-medium students were given English medium question paper by mistake, and by the time the invigilator was correcting the mistake, students forcefully walked out of the exam hall with the question paper."

"As per the rules students are only allowed to exit the hall with the question paper after the exam, but some students walked out forcefully. Due to this, the question paper was circulated on the internet around 4 pm, but by that time the exam had already started at all other centers across the country. So, there has not been any 'leak' of the NEET UG question paper," he added.