A JEE (Main) 2025 candidate has approached the Delhi High Court over missing responses and errors in the answer key. The plea demands a probe, re-evaluation, and better grievance redressal by NTA.
New Delhi: A student named Shashank Shekhar Pandey has filed a petition in the Delhi High Court, asking for an independent investigation into the problems and mistakes in the way the JEE (Main) 2025 examination was conducted.
The case has been listed for hearing before Justice Vikas Mahajan on Thursday. The petition has been filed through his lawyer, Advocate Priyanshu Upadhyay.
Pandey, who appeared for the recent JEE (Main) exam, has claimed that he answered 46 questions during the test. However, when the National Testing Agency (NTA) uploaded his response sheet, it showed that he had attempted only 29 questions.
This means that his answers to 17 questions were not recorded at all.
Because of this serious mistake, he lost marks for 17 questions, which is over 65 marks in total.
According to the petition,
“As a direct consequence of this discrepancy, 17 questions—corresponding to over 65 marks—have not been accounted for in the evaluation of the petitioner’s performance. Consequently, the Petitioner has been unfairly awarded an NTA Score of 88.5434015, substantially lower than what he would have secured had his complete responses been duly considered, thereby causing irreparable harm to his academic prospects.”
Pandey has also pointed out that the official answer key released by the NTA has errors. He has requested the court to order a correction in the answer key.
The plea states that this is not the first time such issues have come up in JEE exams. In fact, many students face similar problems every year, but the authorities have not taken strong steps to fix them.
The petition also requests the court to direct the NTA to extend the last date for registration for the JEE (Advanced) exam so that affected students do not miss their chance.
Additionally, Pandey has asked for a proper and effective grievance redressal system to be set up to handle such complaints and mistakes in the future.
Apart from that, he has demanded that his marks should be recalculated based on the correct answers he submitted during the exam. The student hopes that the court will ensure that justice is done and that no student has to suffer due to errors from the examination authorities.
This case brings attention to the larger problem of transparency and accuracy in competitive exams like JEE, which determine the future of lakhs of students.
It also raises important questions about the responsibility of exam-conducting bodies like NTA and the urgent need for accountability in the evaluation process.
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