The Nationwide Testing Company (NTA) has warned NEET-UG 2026 candidates and their mother and father in opposition to submitting faux or AI-generated OMR sheets whereas submitting complaints about discrepancies in scores. File |Picture courtesy of Ragu R.
The Nationwide Testing Company (NTA) introduced on Monday (20 July 2026) that college students and oldsters are inspired to submit solely authentic OMRs for scrutiny after a variety of Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) sheets submitted for scrutiny had been discovered to be faux or AI-generated.
“Pretend OMRs or AI-generated OMRs might invite authorized motion in opposition to the petitioner. The NTA is intently scrutinizing and monitoring all petitions,” the official additional stated.
The Nationwide Testing Company has knowledgeable that photographs of OMR reply sheets, that are stated to be the “appropriate” data of sure candidates who appeared in NEET (UG) 2026, are being circulated on social media in help of the declare that the outcomes declared for these candidates are incorrect, the NTA additional stated.
The NTA stated it will confirm data in all such circumstances. Genuine OMR sheets of all candidates with appropriate roll quantity, examination booklet quantity, reply sheet barcode and serial, examination booklet code, candidate’s personal title and parentage, together with signatures and thumb impressions of the candidate and two examiners, will likely be saved as data on the NTA. “This info is now out there to candidates at their registered e-mail deal with and candidate portal,” the NTA claimed in a press release.
In case of allegations made by candidate Alia Singh, NTA stated that the real OMR sheet of the candidate is with NTA. “This doc was additionally emailed to her at her registered e-mail deal with through the OMR Response Key Problem. The picture in circulation is a digitally altered model of the identical sheet. The recorded time of the signature of one of many examiners has been modified from 3:45 PM on the genuine sheet to 2:45 PM on the altered picture. Cast OMR There are a number of different indicators of digital alteration on the sheet,” NTA stated in X. 167 factors have been verified and are as declared. ”
In one other declare by candidate Raksha Singh, the central company stated the pictures being circulated present responsive marks that aren’t current on the real sheet. To create the solid OMR sheets, further air bubbles had been shaded by digital means. Of the 180 questions, candidates tried 54 (34 appropriate, 20 incorrect) and left 126 questions unanswered. The rating of 116 has been verified and is as declared.
In the meantime, Raksha Singh’s family members claimed that the NTA had not given any OMR sheets via submit to this point and there was no obtain possibility on the login portal. Purva Bhargava, Singh’s aunt, stated in X: “Now we have now to go to courtroom with the IRS to find out whether or not it was our baby who cast the merchandise or whether or not it was mismanagement or deliberate or inadvertent loopholes on the a part of the IRS.”
Within the case of a candidate named Avaneesh Srivastava, the NTA stated the picture being circulated was not an OMR sheet issued by the NTA. The identification inserted in that picture (Ajeet Singh, son of Lakhan Singh and Saint Reena Singh) doesn’t correspond to any candidate registered for NEET(UG) 2026. There isn’t a candidate with that title and pedigree within the NEET(UG)2026 database.
The picture is a digital copy of the candidate’s personal genuine OMR sheet. The ID discipline is overwritten and the printed portion of the sheet is regenerated by AI or OCR-based instruments, creating seen errors in some elements of the real OMR sheet that can’t be modified by the candidate with a pen. NTA informed X that the candidate’s personal OMR sheet on report was evaluated and the rating of 337 marks was verified and declared legitimate.
The scores declared for all such candidates are in actual accordance with the OMR reply sheets, official reply keys notified for NEET(UG) 2023 and calculation sheets on file and there are not any analysis errors, the authorities stated.
The picture being circulated as the proper OMR shouldn’t be a doc issued by the Nationwide Tax Company. These are digital variations of candidates’ personal genuine OMR reply sheets. Adjustments noticed within the circumstances investigated vary from the introduction of further response markings, to call adjustments and adjustments to the examiner’s licensed signature time.
The manufacturing or distribution of cast, digitally altered or in any other case cast OMR reply sheets is a transparent violation beneath the Public Examinations (Prevention of Dishonest) Act, 2024 and is individually liable beneath the India Act, 2023 and the IT Act, 2000, the Income Division stated in an official assertion.
Candidates with real complaints are suggested to observe the process talked about within the NTA’s public discover dated July 20, 2026, out there on the NTA web site.
