New Delhi, October 1, 2026 (Yes Punjab News)
A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions to the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) to provide NEET-PG 2026 candidates with the actual questions and options displayed to them during the examination, along with their recorded responses, correct answers and question-wise marks.
The plea has been filed by the Democratic Medical Association and a group of NEET-PG 2026 aspirants through advocates Satyam Singh Rajput and Neema, challenging the manner in which NBEMS has disclosed candidates’ answer keys and responses.
NEET-PG 2026 was conducted on August 30 as a nationwide computer-based examination, with the results declared on September 24.
Following the results, several candidates sought access to the question paper, official answer key and their recorded responses to independently verify their scores.
According to the petition, NBEMS responded to representations through standardised communications stating that the results were “factual and correct”, while in several cases referring candidates to Point No. 9 of its September 24 public notice.
The petition challenges an October 1 NBEMS notice titled “Scorecard and Answer Key of NEET-PG 2026”, under which candidates can access question-wise evaluation through their individual applicant logins.
The petitioners said the disclosure currently provides a Question ID, response status, numerical ID of the correct answer, numerical option selected by the candidate and marks awarded for each question.
However, they contend that the system does not display the actual question corresponding to the Question ID or the complete text of the options in the same sequence in which they appeared to the candidate during the examination.
The plea states that candidates are therefore presented with a coded numerical matrix without being able to correlate the identifiers with the questions and options they actually saw and answered.
The petitioners have also pointed to candidate-specific shuffling of both questions and options during the examination.
They argued that simply showing that a particular Question ID had one option marked as correct and another selected by the candidate does not enable the candidate to establish what the underlying question was, what the options contained or whether the question-and-option sequence was correctly mapped to their examination record.
According to the plea, the present disclosure may allow candidates to reconcile the marks arithmetically but does not enable independent verification of the substantive answer key or the candidate-specific mapping of questions, options and responses.
The petitioners further argued that without access to the actual questions and options, candidates cannot meaningfully determine whether a question was ambiguous, whether multiple options could be correct, whether an officially designated answer was erroneous or whether an error occurred while mapping the examination record.
The plea seeks directions to NBEMS to provide, through individual candidate logins, a candidate-wise mapped question paper and response sheet containing the actual questions in the sequence presented during the examination, complete options in the candidate-specific sequence, recorded responses, corresponding correct answers and marks awarded.
It also seeks a downloadable and permanent electronic copy of each candidate’s examination record, along with a reasonable, time-bound mechanism for raising question-wise objections after candidates are given access to the actual questions and options.
The petitioners have proposed that such objections be examined by a duly constituted subject-expert committee, with scores and ranks corrected wherever an error is established.
The plea also refers to earlier proceedings concerning transparency and verifiability in NEET-PG examinations and seeks appropriate guidelines or standard operating procedures from the Supreme Court for post-examination transparency in future postgraduate medical entrance examinations.
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