<p>Bengaluru: A student, who appeared for National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), has claimed that her OMR sheet was tampered with.</p>.<p>Spurthy S, who had bagged sixth rank in the PU II exams in science stream, said her OMR sheet was manipulated as her signature was overwritten.</p>.<p>The invigilator’s signature does not match the one in the question paper and the OMR sheet, she has claimed.</p>.<p>Spurthy was a student of Soundarya PU College, Bengaluru and she was one of the toppers in class 10 (SSLC) in 2023. She also secured the 1386th rank in KCET.</p>.<p>Addressing a news conference on Thursday, she said that the OMR sheet, which she had answered, did not match the one uploaded on the National Testing Agency (NTA) website. </p>.400 students who took KCET again this year under lens.<p>She shared her letter/email communication with the NTA Spurthy.</p>.<p>It read, “Upon attempting to download my OMR sheet, I encountered initial technical errors. When it became accessible, I observed that the shaded bubbles for the register number were correct, but the handwritten number appeared overwritten. I remember writing the time under my signature, as instructed by the invigilator. However, the time written in the OMR sheet is not visible in the scanned copy. This raised concerns about possible technical misreads or mismatches during evaluation. Several answers I attempted and marked are left unshaded. Some questions I had not attempted are marked. This has led to a discrepancy of nearly 174 marks, inconsistent with my performance.”</p>.<p>Her current rank is around 93,000. “My rank should have been around 200, as per the answers I have marked,” she said. </p>.<p>“I had written to NTA on June 3. But NTA replied on June 12, stating that the OMR sheet is mine,” Spurthy added.</p>.<p>She said the response from NTA said, “The OMR sheet displayed on the portal is the same as the one submitted by you at the exam centre. The sheet includes the details filled in by you, such as your roll number (both in figures and bubbled format), question paper booklet number and series code, and bears both your signature and that of invigilator. The image visible to you is a scanned copy of the original OMR sheet received from the centre. The responses shown are those marked by you.”</p>.<p>Disappointed with the NTA’s response, Spurthy’s parents have now decided to approach the court and fight it out legally.</p>
<p>Bengaluru: A student, who appeared for National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), has claimed that her OMR sheet was tampered with.</p>.<p>Spurthy S, who had bagged sixth rank in the PU II exams in science stream, said her OMR sheet was manipulated as her signature was overwritten.</p>.<p>The invigilator’s signature does not match the one in the question paper and the OMR sheet, she has claimed.</p>.<p>Spurthy was a student of Soundarya PU College, Bengaluru and she was one of the toppers in class 10 (SSLC) in 2023. She also secured the 1386th rank in KCET.</p>.<p>Addressing a news conference on Thursday, she said that the OMR sheet, which she had answered, did not match the one uploaded on the National Testing Agency (NTA) website. </p>.400 students who took KCET again this year under lens.<p>She shared her letter/email communication with the NTA Spurthy.</p>.<p>It read, “Upon attempting to download my OMR sheet, I encountered initial technical errors. When it became accessible, I observed that the shaded bubbles for the register number were correct, but the handwritten number appeared overwritten. I remember writing the time under my signature, as instructed by the invigilator. However, the time written in the OMR sheet is not visible in the scanned copy. This raised concerns about possible technical misreads or mismatches during evaluation. Several answers I attempted and marked are left unshaded. Some questions I had not attempted are marked. This has led to a discrepancy of nearly 174 marks, inconsistent with my performance.”</p>.<p>Her current rank is around 93,000. “My rank should have been around 200, as per the answers I have marked,” she said. </p>.<p>“I had written to NTA on June 3. But NTA replied on June 12, stating that the OMR sheet is mine,” Spurthy added.</p>.<p>She said the response from NTA said, “The OMR sheet displayed on the portal is the same as the one submitted by you at the exam centre. The sheet includes the details filled in by you, such as your roll number (both in figures and bubbled format), question paper booklet number and series code, and bears both your signature and that of invigilator. The image visible to you is a scanned copy of the original OMR sheet received from the centre. The responses shown are those marked by you.”</p>.<p>Disappointed with the NTA’s response, Spurthy’s parents have now decided to approach the court and fight it out legally.</p>