Will the NEET exam be held again? The court told the 12 students who came with the appeal - 20 lakh students will be given the exam for you...

The petitions had requested that re-examination be conducted for students who faced difficulties due to power failure at four examination centres in Chennai and the results should not be declared until then.

The Madras High Court on Thursday (July 3, 2025) dismissed the appeal of a group of medical students against the order of a single judge bench denying NEET re-examination, saying that any such move would adversely affect more than 20 lakh students.

On June 6, the high court had dismissed the petitions seeking a stay on the declaration of the exam results, paving the way for the National Testing Agency (NTA) to declare the results.

 

 

S Sai Priya and 11 others had filed an appeal against the order of June 6. In these petitions, Priya and other students had requested that the students who faced difficulties due to power failure at four examination centers in Chennai should be re-examined and the results should not be declared till then.

 

A division bench of Justices J Nisha Banu and M Jothiraman dismissed the appeal on Thursday. The bench said, 'It should be noted that the sanctity of the examination is ensured exclusively through human supervision which includes the presence of the center superintendent, invigilator, supervisor and coordinator appointed by NTA. All these officials checked and confirmed that the examination was conducted smoothly.'

 

The court said that the statistical analysis was carried out by an independent expert committee and it had carried out the analysis on the basis of anonymous data relating to the average number of questions attempted by the candidates at the said centre and the comparison with other centres in Tiruvallur district is statistically comparable across all the centres in the district where the examination was conducted smoothly.

The court said, 'This analysis did not find any statistically significant difference in the number of questions solved, confirming that the alleged power cut did not materially affect the performance of the candidates. Moreover, NEET (UG) 2025 is a large-scale national examination.'

The court said, 'In such circumstances, if re-examination is allowed, then more than 20 lakh candidates will be badly affected, therefore, we do not see any reason to interfere with the order. This appeal is dismissed.'