New Delhi: Hours after the NEET-UG 2026 exam was cancelled following paper leak allegations, the National Testing Agency (NTA) said a re-examination schedule will be announced within the next seven to 10 days.
“For the re-examination date, I will sit with my team now, and in the next few days we will announce the complete exam schedule and dates. Our effort will be to conduct the exam as soon as possible so that the academic calendar and admission schedule of medical colleges are not disrupted. We will intimate the schedule within the next seven to 10 days,” NTA Director General Abhishek Singh told newspersons.
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Abhishek assured lakhs of affected students that the agency will adopt a zero-tolerance policy after evidence suggested that parts of the question paper was circulated before the exam.
“All accused will be nabbed and jailed so that the future of students is not adversely impacted,” he said.
The paper leak incident will be probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
According to the NTA chief, the agency received information from a whistleblower on the night of May 7, claiming that a WhatsApp message containing questions matching the NEET-UG paper had circulated before the exam.
An internal verification was carried out and it was found that several questions matched the exam paper and that PDF files containing the material were present on a few mobile phones on May 1 and 2, ahead of the May 3 examination.