Instead of three considerations last year, NTA has six new factors this year to break ties.
Digital Desk: Four NEET-UG exam candidates tied for first place this year with the same percentile scores of 99.9997733. The National Testing Agency (NTA), in contrast to last year, did not jointly award them the top spot.
Instead, the testing organisation used its new tie-breaker procedure to place Tanishka from Rajasthan in first place, followed by Vatsa Ashish Batra from Delhi in second, Hrishikesh Nagbhushan Gangule in third, and Rucha Pawashe from Karnataka in AIR 4. Since the entrance exam's introduction in 2017, Tanishka is the first candidate from the OBC category to place first nationwide in NEET.
What then is the new tie-breaker rule that NTA implemented to make sure that no applicant received the same rank? Instead of three considerations last year, NTA has six new factors this year to break ties. "It's critical that each candidate receive a distinct rank for counselling purposes. We have updated our tie-breaker criteria in light of this. Because of this, this year has seen no ties between candidates for the same position, a top NTA official informed The Indian Express.
Prior to last year, NTA employed the following three formulas in the following order of preference to avoid a tie between two applicants:
1. The candidate who performed better on the test in Biology (Botany & Zoology), followed by,
2. The candidate who performed better on the Chemistry portion of the test, followed by,
3. The candidate with the lowest ratio of attempted incorrect responses to correct answers across all test topics
Despite the aforementioned formula, the top three candidates in 2021 were still tied, so all received Rank 1. Tanmay Gupta from Delhi, Mrinal Kutteri from Telangana, and Karthika Nair from Maharashtra all achieved the 99.9998057 percentile. Joint rank holders are not the best scenario, especially for medical colleges with a restricted number of seats, the NTA representative continued.
Therefore, this year, the NTA considered the following nine criteria to decide who would receive ranks 1, 2, 3and 4
1. Candidates scoring higher marks or percentiles in Biology (Botany and Zoology), then
2. Candidates scoring higher marks or percentiles in Chemistry, then 3. Candidates scoring higher marks or percentile scores in Physics, then
4. Candidates scoring fewer incorrect answers than correct answers across all test subjects, then
5. Candidates scoring higher marks or percentiles in English. The winner is the candidate with the lowest ratio of incorrect to correct responses in Biology (Botany and Zoology), followed by
6. The runner-up is the applicant with the lowest ratio of incorrect to right responses in Chemistry.
7. The candidate with a lesser percentage of attempted incorrect answers and correct answers in Physics, followed by
8. Candidate older in age, followed by
9. And ,NEET application number in ascending order
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