The NEET-UG 2026 examination, conducted on May 3 for admissions into undergraduate medical programmes, was cancelled following reports of a paper leak. The National Testing Agency said that information collected by law enforcement agencies had indicated that the present examination process could not be allowed to stand. The agency said that the exam would be conducted afresh, the dates for which would be announced in the coming days.
Around 22 lakh students had appeared for NEET UG 2026, making it one of the largest entrance exams in the country. In Rajasthan, where the state police’s Special Operations Group had been probing allegations that the NEET-UG question paper had leaked just days before the May 3 examination.
According to the SOG probe, details of which emerged a set of handwritten questions that were purportedly part of a “guess paper” (a question bank meant for last-minute practice) partially matched the actual exam paper. Around 140 questions, worth 600 marks of the total 720, that appeared in the actual exam were found to be similar to the handwritten paper that circulated two to three days before the examination.
