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How the institutions that examine, admit and certify people in India actually work, and what the record shows when they fail. The National Testing Agency's own charter, the NEET-UG 2024 leak, the cancellation of UGC-NET in a day, and what was rebuilt afterwards.

5 pieces · 40 documents · The National Testing Agency

  1. Part 5 · The National Testing Agency

    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.

    16
    New posts created inside the agency
    10 years
    Maximum sentence for organised crime under the Act
    3 May 2026
    The exam that was held, then cancelled

    8 September 2026 · 10 min read · 8 documents

  2. Part 4 · The National Testing Agency

    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.

    67
    Candidates with a perfect 720 out of 720
    1 day
    Between UGC-NET being held and being cancelled
    101
    Recommendations the expert committee proposed

    8 September 2026 · 10 min read · 15 documents

  3. Part 3 · The National Testing Agency

    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.

    23,33,297
    Candidates who sat the paper on 5 May 2024
    155
    Students the CBI material indicated appear to be beneficiaries
    2
    Centres where the leak is not in dispute

    8 September 2026 · 16 min read · 13 documents

  4. Part 2 · The National Testing Agency

    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.

    44
    Candidates reached a full 720 after grace marks
    −20 to 720
    The score range inside the same affected group
    1,563
    Scorecards cancelled, with a re-test offered

    8 September 2026 · 12 min read · 8 documents

  5. Part 1 · The National Testing Agency

    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.

    1860
    Year of the law it is registered under
    Rs 25 cr
    Granted once, then self-sustaining
    40 lakh
    Students the estimate covers

    8 September 2026 · 12 min read · 9 documents