The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the Madras High Court directive to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to grant grace marks to students who suffered from the erroneous Tamil translation of 49 questions in the NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) for undergraduate medical admissions. 

A Bench of Justices S.A. Bobde and L. Nageswara Rao observed that grant of 196 grace marks —  four marks for each of the 49 wrongly translated questions — would cause indelible damage to meritorious students across the country, affect the all-India rank list and have a  ripple effect on the futures of thousands of other students across the country.
"What will happen to the meritorious students? This is an all-India exam. And this is not some pass marks, but a bonus of 196 marks. These grace marks are given even without taking into consideration that students may have gone wrong in their answers even if the translations were accurate," Justice Rao addressed senior advocate Siddharth Luthra, who led the charge against the appeal filed by the CBSE challenging the High Court order.