The Union government has informed the Supreme Court that the current system used for conducting the NEET examination cannot be tampered with.
The submission came during the hearing of a petition seeking to shift NEET to a computer-based format. The plea was filed in the backdrop of the NEET exam held on May 3 being cancelled over an alleged question paper leak, followed by a re-examination on June 21.
Appearing for the Centre, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta explained the safeguards in question paper preparation. He said that, for instance, four question papers are created by selecting 100 questions each from a pool of 500 for a subject like Physics, and two of these papers are then chosen by the examination agency’s director.
He further said the selected papers are sent to printing presses in sealed boxes under CCTV surveillance and CISF security, and can be opened only using a digital code. After printing, the staff involved in printing are not informed about which examination centres the papers will be dispatched to, and the entire process is video-recorded.
