No NEET Re-Test 2025 for Candidates Affected by Power Outage, Says MP High Court

Madhya Pradesh High Court has ruled against the NEET UG re-test 2025 for candidates affected by power outage in Indore and Ujjain exam centers. This verdict reverses the decision of the single bench to conducted NEET re-test for the 75 affected candidates.

A MP High Court Division Bench comprising Justice Vivek Rusia and Justice Binod Kumar Dwivedi noted that a re-test for a small group would cause logistical chaos and compromise the integrity of a national-level exam taken by over 22 lakh candidates.

Also no conclusive data showed performance dips due to the blackout as one candidate was AIR 2 and several candidates score over 600 in the affected centers.

The bench stated:

"Disturbance to the students is not disputed; we also understand the issue of stress faced by the students in such a situation. We have full sympathy for students. Many have taken drop also, we understand their problem. But see, 22 Lakhs students had appeared, all of them can't be selected. Hard Luck Bad Luck. Only one plane crashed (referring to the Ahmedabad Air India crash), but thousands fly every day. One girl missed the flight by ten minutes, but she was saved. So it happens."

NEET UG 2025 Re-Test Issue

This year, the NEET UG 2025 exam was conducted on May 4, 2025. Petitions were filed at the Madhya Pradesh High Court owing to NTA NEET exam mismanagement.

• Officially, 19 exam centers in Indore and Ujjain faced power failure for upto an hour.
• 75 candidates were adversely affected by the power outage.

Initially, a single-judge bench had ordered NTA to conduct a NEET re-test for the affected candidates who had filed grievances before June 3. NTA argued that despite the power outage there were power backup measures in place and there were no large-scale disruptions.

This year, a total of 22,09,318 lakh students appeared in NEET 2025 out of 22,76,069 lakh registered candidates. NTA has released the NEET UG result 2025 on June 14, 2025. No candidate has secured the percent NTA score of 720. The NEET 2025 topper is Mahesh Kumar from Rajasthan with 686 marks and 99.9999547 percentile. Avika Aggarwal is the NEET 2025 female topper from Delhi (NCT) with AIR of 5 and 99.9996832 percentile marks.