HC order awarding extra marks to NEET Tamil candidates stayed

MADRAS: The Supreme Court has stayed a Madras High Court directive to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to grant grace marks to students suffering from the erroneous Tamil translation of 49 questions in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for undergraduate medical admissions. An SC bench also observed that grant of 196 grace marks, four marks for each of the 49 wrongly translated questions would cause damage to meritorious students across the country, and affect the all-India rank list. They scheduled the case for a detailed hearing while asking the CBSE and other parties to come up with a solution so there would be no recurrence of similar situation in the future.