The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has moved to the Supreme Court against the judgement of Madras High Court to award 196 grace marks to 24,000 students who sat in the medical entrance exam in Tamil. Reportedly, the board has appeared in the apex court, and further updates on the same are still awaited. The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) was conducted in 136 cities, and the results were subsequently announced on June 4. Several issues related to the question papers during the exam came into limelight.

One of which was, keywords in the Tamil questions which were wrongly translated from English caused confusion among students during NEET 2018. Following to such menace, a senior CPI(M) leader and Rajya Sabha MP T.K. Rangarajan filed a petition last month seeking full marks for 49 questions. Studying the situation, on July 10, the Madurai bench of the Madras High Court ordered CBSE to give four marks each for 49 questions to all the students who participated in Tamil NEET. On the same note, Justices CT Selvam and AM Basheer Ahamed had directed CBSE to publish a revised list of the eligible candidates.

According to PTI, unsatisfied with the decision, CBSE will approach the Supreme Court to challenge the Madras High Court's decision. However, they will finalise the matter after sitting for a meeting with various stakeholders and seeking a legal opinion. A similar incident happened in West Bengal which witnessed error-ridden Bengali questions. Kalna based, Apala Debnath moved to the High Court alleging that the Bengali version of NEET has 180 mistakes.

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