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NEET results 2020: The result of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) was announced on Friday night with over 7.7 lakh candidates qualifying the exam.

NEET results 2020: Delhi’s Akansha Singh scored 720 out of 720 marks in medical entrance exam NEET, but lost the top rank to Odisha’s Soyeb Aftab due to her younger age which is one of the factors accounted in the National Testing Agency’s tie-breaking policy.

As per authorities, the tie-breaking strategy considers factors, for example, age, subject-wise checks and number of inaccurate answers.

“Soyeb Aftab of Odisha and Akansha Singh of Delhi have both scored ideal 720 score in the NEET examination. Notwithstanding, as Aftab is more established, he has been ranked at the top in the national ranking,” an authority said.

“The ranking of the applicant is at first decided dependent on the scores got in Biology and Chemistry. Following these, in situations where the applicants can’t be shortlisted utilizing the scores got in the examination, up-and-comers are additionally shortlisted thinking about the quantity of answers that are mistaken, following which they are then shortlisted relying upon their age. The senior one gets the inclination,” the authority clarified.

The aftereffect of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) was reported on Friday night with over 7.7 lakh up-and-comers qualifying the test.

A similar tie-breaking strategy has been utilized for choosing further ranks.

Tummala Snikitha (Telangana), Vineet Sharma (Rajasthan), Amrisha Khaitan (Haryana) and Guthi Chaitanya Sindhu (Andhra Pradesh) have scored 715 out of 720 imprints. Be that as it may, they have been ranked third, fourth, fifth and 6th individually.

Likewise, those ranked from eighth to twentieth have scored 710 imprints and those ranked from 25th to 50th have scored 705 out of 720 imprints.

The test was directed on September 13 in the midst of exacting precautionary measures considering the COVID-19 pandemic.

From this year, the admissions to MBBS course in 13 All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, will likewise be made through NEET following the revision in National Medical Commission Act, 2019, passed by Parliament a year ago.

The test was offered in 11 dialects – English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Odia, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu – this year. In light of the underlying report, more than 77 percent hopefuls stepped through the examination in English, around 12 percent in Hindi and 11 percent in different dialects.

The test was before delayed twice because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the administration chose to proceed with it, in spite of resistance by a segment, to relieve any further scholastic misfortune.