New Delhi, October 4, 2026: The Democratic Medical Association (DMA), along with a group of NEET PG 2026 aspirants, has approached the Supreme Court seeking greater transparency in the post-examination disclosure process of the NEET PG 2026 examination conducted by the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS).

The petition, filed through advocates Satyam Singh Rajput and Neema, seeks directions to NBEMS to provide candidates with the actual questions and options displayed to them during the NEET PG 2026 examination, along with their recorded responses, correct answers and question-wise marks.

The National General Secretary of DMA said “It is fundamentally a demand for transparency and the basic right of candidates to verify their own examination results. Every doctor who appeared for NEET PG 2026 deserves complete clarity regarding their actual question paper, recorded responses, official answer keys, and question-wise marks“.

NEET PG 2026 was conducted on August 30, 2026, through a nationwide computer-based examination, while the results were declared on September 24, 2026.

Following the declaration of results of NEET PG 2026, several candidates sought access to the question paper, official answer key and their recorded responses so that they could independently verify the calculation and correctness of their scores.

According to the petition, NBEMS communicated to candidates that the declared results were “factual and correct” and referred candidates in several instances to Point No. 9 of its September 24 public notice.

The petition challenges the manner of disclosure under the October 1 NBEMS notice titled “Scorecard and Answer Key of NEET PG 2026.” Under the current system, candidates can access question-wise evaluation through their individual applicant logins.

DMA questions coded disclosure

The petitioners have argued that the information presently made available consists largely of coded identifiers, including the Question ID, response status, numerical ID of the correct answer, numerical option selected by the candidate and marks awarded.

According to the petition on NEET PG 2026, however, candidates are not shown the actual question corresponding to the Question ID or the complete text of the options in the exact sequence in which they appeared during their examination.

The petitioners have therefore contended that candidates are effectively provided with a numerical matrix rather than a complete, candidate-specific examination record, making meaningful independent verification difficult.

The plea further highlights that questions and options were subject to candidate-specific shuffling during the examination. In such circumstances, the petitioners argue, merely disclosing numerical identifiers does not establish whether the question, options and recorded response have been correctly mapped to an individual candidate’s examination record.

Demand for complete candidate-wise examination record

The petition seeks directions to NBEMS to provide every candidate, through their individual login, with a complete candidate-wise mapped record containing:

• Actual questions presented during the examination
• Questions in the exact sequence shown to the candidate
• Complete options in the candidate-specific sequence
• Recorded responses
• Corresponding official correct answers
• Marks awarded for each question

The petition also seeks a downloadable and permanent electronic copy of each candidate’s examination record.

The petitioners have further sought a reasonable and time-bound mechanism through which candidates can raise question-wise objections after receiving access to the actual questions and options.

They have proposed that such objections be examined by a duly constituted subject-expert committee, with appropriate correction of scores and ranks wherever an error is established.

DMA: Transparency is essential for confidence in NEET-PG

Reacting to the development, Dr. Ritesh Srivastava, Secretary, Democratic Medical Association (DMA), Bihar, welcomed the move and said that candidates appearing for a high-stakes examination such as NEET-PG deserve a transparent and verifiable evaluation process.

“DMA’s decision to approach the Supreme Court is a welcome and necessary step towards ensuring transparency in NEET-PG. Candidates should not be expected to simply accept a numerical disclosure without being able to see the actual questions, options and responses on the basis of which their scores have been determined. Transparency is not a demand for favour; it is a basic requirement of a fair examination system. We hope this intervention will strengthen accountability and establish a clear mechanism for verification and correction wherever genuine errors are found.”

The petition also refers to earlier proceedings concerning transparency and verifiability in NEET-PG examinations and seeks appropriate guidelines or standard operating procedures from the Supreme Court for post-examination transparency in future postgraduate medical entrance examinations.

The matter places the larger issue of transparency, accountability and independent verification in computer-based medical entrance examinations before the Supreme Court, with the petitioners maintaining that candidates should have meaningful access to the examination record used to determine their scores and ranks.

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