Mumbai, May 13: The Union government has suffered the deep embarrassment of having to cancel the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET-UG) 2026 for medical seats, frustrating 22 lakh aspirants who wrote the examination on May 3. They must take a fresh test now. Preliminary reports of this year’s fiasco point to leaked questions in biology and chemistry in Rajasthan that then circulated to multiple cities and other states. A Rajasthan Special Operations Group and, later, the CBI, have taken over the investigation; one individual has been arrested in Nashik.

A similar leak two years ago convulsed NEET, and the new crisis poses hard questions for the National Testing Agency (NTA). It is fair to ask what lessons were learnt from the previous........

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