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The National Testing Agency

One body sits between roughly forty lakh candidates a year and the seats they are competing for. Where it came from, what happened on its watch, and what the documents record.

  1. Part 1

    NTA explained: why the National Testing Agency is a society, not a statutory body

    The National Testing Agency was not created by an Act of Parliament. It was registered as a society under a law from 1860, with one opening grant of Rs 25 crore and an instruction to pay for itself thereafter.

    8 September 2026 · 12 min read

  2. Part 2

    NEET-UG 2024 grace marks: 44 perfect scores, 1,563 scorecards cancelled, and a re-test

    Grace marks carried 44 candidates in NEET-UG 2024 to a full score. Inside the same affected group, scores ran from minus 20 to 720. The scorecards of 1,563 candidates were then cancelled and a re-test ordered, and a separate CBI case from JEE Main 2021 remains, in the agency's own word, continuing.

    8 September 2026 · 12 min read

  3. Part 3

    NEET-UG 2024 paper leak: Hazaribagh to Patna, and why the Supreme Court refused a re-exam

    The NEET-UG 2024 paper leak, from a raid on the morning of the exam to burnt question-paper fragments matched to a centre in another state. The Supreme Court called the leak an admitted fact, and let the examination stand anyway.

    8 September 2026 · 16 min read

  4. Part 4

    UGC-NET 2024 cancelled in a day, and the Radhakrishnan committee's 101 recommendations

    UGC-NET was held on 18 June 2024 and cancelled on 19 June. Sixty-seven candidates had scored a perfect 720 in NEET-UG. An expert committee was given two months, took four, and returned 101 recommendations.

    8 September 2026 · 10 min read

  5. Part 5

    NTA reforms after the NEET leak: the Public Examinations Act, 16 new posts, and NEET-UG 2026 cancelled

    After the NEET-UG 2024 leak the National Testing Agency was rebuilt: 16 new posts, 101 committee recommendations, and the Public Examinations Act 2024, a law written before the leak it is now measured against. Then NEET-UG 2026 was cancelled and a CBI case followed.

    8 September 2026 · 10 min read