NEET PG 2026 plea urges Supreme Court to order full question disclosure

A plea before the Supreme Court has challenged the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences' (NBEMS) post-result disclosure process for NEET-PG 2026, arguing that candidates cannot properly verify their scores without seeing the actual questions and answer options presented to them during the examination.

The petition, filed by the Democratic Medical Association, challenges the disclosure mechanism announced by NBEMS after the NEET-PG 2026 results. According to the plea, candidates have been provided Question IDs, numerical IDs of correct answers, their recorded responses and question-wise marks, but not the actual questions and complete answer options in the sequence in which they appeared on individual screens.

NEET-PG 2026 was conducted on August 30, with 2,65,960 candidates appearing for the examination. The results were declared on September 24. On October 1, NBEMS released question-wise evaluation and answer-key-related details through candidates' individual applicant logins.

Plea questions whether candidates can verify their scores

The petition argues that the current disclosure format makes it difficult for candidates to independently check whether their responses were correctly matched with the official answers and whether marks were awarded accurately.

NEET-PG uses candidate-specific shuffling of questions and answer options. The plea contends that numerical Question IDs and answer IDs alone do not tell a candidate exactly what appeared on their screen.

Access to the actual questions and options, it argues, is necessary for candidates to identify potential issues such as ambiguous questions, multiple potentially correct answers or discrepancies in answer mapping.

Candidates seek complete examination records

The petition has sought directions requiring NBEMS to provide each candidate with a complete record corresponding to the question paper they actually received.

This would include the questions in the sequence in which they appeared, the complete answer options in the candidate-specific order, the candidate's recorded responses, the correct answers in the final official answer key and the marks awarded for each question.

The plea also seeks a downloadable and permanent electronic copy of these records in PDF, CSV or another suitable format.

It further asks for a reasonable, time-bound mechanism through which candidates can raise objections after reviewing their actual questions and answer options.

Plea refers to earlier NEET-PG disclosure dispute

The petition also cites the case of Upendra Yadav vs National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences, which involved disclosure of Question IDs, answer keys and candidate responses relating to the NEET-PG 2025 Master Set.

The petitioner has argued that concerns over a transparent and verifiable post-examination disclosure system have emerged across successive NEET-PG cycles. It has therefore sought appropriate guidelines or standard operating procedures to establish a uniform disclosure mechanism for future postgraduate medical entrance examinations.

Counselling timeline adds urgency

With the NEET-PG 2026 results already declared and the counselling process ahead, the petition has stressed the importance of allowing candidates to verify their scores and flag possible discrepancies before the admission process advances.

The plea seeks to quash the October 1 notice to the extent that it limits disclosure to Question IDs, correct-answer IDs, candidate responses and question-wise marks.

It instead seeks directions for complete candidate-wise examination records to be made available through individual applicant logins, along with a formal mechanism for raising objections.

Advocate Satyam Singh Rajpoot and Advocate-on-Record Neema are representing the petitioner.

At the heart of the plea is a simple concern for candidates: if they cannot see the questions they actually faced, how can they independently verify whether their marks are correct?