The Supreme Court sought clarification on the controversial Physics question number 19 that was asked in the exam during the hearings on a batch of 40 petitions that demanded cancellation, a retest, and a court-monitored investigation into the claims of misconduct in the NEET-UG 2024. Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice JB Pardiwala’s bench requested that the Director of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT-D) convene a group of three experts to investigate the disputed physics question 19 and provide a report on the right response by today July 23 at noon.
The answer to the disputed NEET-UG 2024 question that resulted in the giving of grace marks was brought before the Supreme Court on Tuesday by the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi. The experts in physics concluded that only one of the answers was accurate. During the hearing, the CJI declared that only options 2 and 4 are mutually exclusive and cannot be used together. So, according to the IIT Delhi assessment, option 4 of Physics Q19 should be considered as accurate.
What was the controversial question?
The Physics Question 19 reads: Given below are two statements:
Statement I: “Atoms are electrically neutral as they contain equal numbers of positive and negative charges.”
Statement II: “Atoms of each element are stable and emit their characteristic spectrum.”
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
(1) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.
(2) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct. (3) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect. (4) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
(3) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect. (4) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
(4) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
IIT Delhi confirmed that the statement “atoms are electrically neutral as they contain an equal number of positive and negative charges” is correct, while the option “atoms of each element are stable and emit their characteristic spectrum” was deemed incorrect. Previously, the National Testing Agency (NTA) decided to award full four marks to students who selected either option as correct.
The Supreme Court requested assistance on a contested question in which students were given grace marks after pointing out discrepancies between the old and new editions of the NCERT Physics textbook. It was said that the question had two right answers. However, only one group of candidates who marked a specific correct answer scored four marks.
Three student groups were said to have been impacted by this issue, The first group that received minus five points for a correct answer; the second group which received four marks for a different correct answer; and the third group that chose not to answer the question out of lack of knowledge or scepticism of receiving a negative mark.
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