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'Opening the books once again was difficult': NEET re-exam toppers on paper leak, second attempt
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Aryan Gupta and Panshul Bansal jointly topped the NEET-UG 2026 re-examination with 715 out of 720.
The original NEET-UG 2026 exam on May 3 was cancelled after a paper leak, forcing both students to prepare again.
Gupta, from Ludhiana, initially scored 696 in the cancelled exam and called reopening books 'difficult'.
Bansal, a student of KR Mangalam World School in Delhi, described the cancellation as demoralizing but chose to focus on the re-exam.
Gupta scored 715 in the re-exam; Bansal secured AIR 2 with a 99.9999 percentile.
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