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18. It is further submitted by the NTA that the revised answer keys, which were finalized by the subject experts, were placed before the Result Committee of NTA comprising of Representatives of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Director General of Health Services, Medical Council of India, etc. in its meeting held on 03.06.2019 and that thereafter, the answer keys were treated as final and uploaded on the website on 05-06-2019, and thereupon, the result of the said exam was also declared on the same date and the NTA has further submitted that the answer key to the questions challenged by the petitioners i.e. Q. No.1 of Physics and 155 of Biology were placed before the subject experts, before the answer keys were revised/finalized by the Experts and that upon examining the said objections preferred by the petitioners, the subject experts of the NTA did not find any merit in the objections or any discrepancy in the answer key to the said questions and that accordingly, the subject experts of the NTA rejected the challenge to the said questions.

19. The respondent further submitted that as regards the contention of the petitioners with reference to question nos. 13 & 68, it is submitted that on inviting objections to the answer key published on 29-05-2019, the subjects experts were of the opinion that the question nos.13 & 68 had two correct options and marks should be granted to students who had opted for either of the two correct options and that accordingly, on the basis of the report of the subject experts, marks have been granted to the candidates who had opted for either of the correct answers mentioned in the final revised answer key.

29. The other contention raised by the petitioners was to the effect that 'the rules of the game' have been changed by the NTA in as much as the scoring and marking pattern has not been adhered to and more than one answer has been given as a correct answer for some of the question in the answer key uploaded on 29.05.2019 and that because of the scoring and marking pattern that had been published by the NTA in the information bulletin that giving of two answers would result into negative marking, the petitioners chose not to give any option in as much as giving of an incorrect option would also result into a negative marking and thus confusion was created in their minds resulting into the petitioners not getting the scores for the said questions which had two correct answers qua which it has to be observed as rightly contended on behalf of the NTA that if the petitioners were sure of correctness of their answers, there was nothing that prevented them from giving any of the two correct answers as being the answer to the question. Furthermore, the NTA though its counter affidavit has also submitted vide para 10 that on the basis of the report of the subject experts, that marks have been granted to the candidates who had opted of either of the correct answers mentioned in the final revised answer key. It is apparent thus that the petitioners have not in any manner suffered by two answers having been put forth by the NTA as being the correct answers to the questions that have been uploaded and the petitioners could have opted for any one of those two correct answers.