Power failure at Jaipur centre: 49 fail to complete Ayush PG entrance test, NTA announces re-test for them
A power failure at a Jaipur examination center disrupted the Ayush PG entrance test, preventing 49 candidates from completing the exam. The National Testing Agency has scheduled a re-test for affected students while investigating the technical failure and allegations of cheating.
Why it matters
Large-scale standardized testing failures impact the career trajectories of thousands of students and raise questions about the reliability of third-party testing vendors.
Forty-nine of the 192 candidates appearing in the All India Ayush Post Graduate Entrance Test (AIAPGET) at the Satya Sai PG College in Jaipur could not complete the computer-based exam due to power outage with some of them alleging that there was copying during the disruption in the presence of the observer.
Candidates said the examination was going at Satya Sai PG College in Transport Nagar when there was power outage for about 20 minutes. The two-hour examination was scheduled from 10 a.m.
The National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts the test for admission to postgraduate MD, MS and PG diploma courses in traditional Indian medicine and homoeopathy systems, said a re-examination will be held at the Rajasthan College of Engineering for Women in Jaipur on September 1 for those who could not complete their examination.
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