NEET UG 2026: NTA says window to challenge OMR responses closes tomorrow

New Delhi: After releasing the scanned images of OMR sheets of candidates who appeared in the NEET UG 2026 re-exam on June 21, the National Testing Agency (NTA) reminded that the window to challenge OMR responses will close on Wednesday.

The result of the NEET UG 2026 re-exam is expected to be released within days of the closure of the window to challenge OMR responses, said sources.

Students will have to pay Rs 200 per challenge. The Rs-200 fee will be refunded if a student’s challenge is upheld, said the NTA.

The window to challenge the provisional answer key for the re-exam had closed earlier on June 28.

Earlier this month, the NTA started the NEET UG 2026 fee refund process after urging the students to update their bank account details on the official portal.

On June 21, as the NEET (UG) 2026 retest was conducted without major glitches, the NTA had credited the whole-of-government effort and thanked 7 lakh officials involved in the mega exercise.

“Team NTA. Team Bharat. One exam, delivered together,” said the NTA in a post on X, reaffirming its commitment to uphold the sanctity of the medical admission test whose previous round on May 3 was forced to be cancelled due to irregularities.

The NTA highlighted the effort put in on June 21, showcasing the whole-of-government effort, the scale of it and the care for 10,000 disabled candidates that went into the successful conduct of the exam.

In a message on X, the NTA said, “Around 7 lakh officials – police teams, observers and examination staff – were mobilised across India to conduct this examination, and it was done in a record 37 days.”

“NTA is especially grateful to the experts from academic institutions across the country who gave their personal time to help prepare multiple sets of question papers,” it said.

“More than 20 lakh aspirants. One exam. A country’s administrative machinery – ministerial, bureaucratic, police, district and local – aligned behind a single day, so that each candidate could simply sit down and write,” it said.

“To every candidate who wrote on 21 June – well done. And to everyone who made it possible: thank you. Team NTA. Team Bharat. One exam, delivered together,” said the NTA.

IANS