Candidates allege paper leak in AIIMS nursing officer recruitment exam

THE Nursing Officer Recruitment Common Eligibility Test (NORCET), conducted by AIIMS Delhi, has once again come under a cloud with fresh allegations of paper leak and cheating in this year’s prelims.

- ASHISH SRIVASTAVA @New Delhi

Candidates alleged that question papers had circulated on social media and that many of the questions that appeared in the exam were identical, despite AIIMS strict policy of not releasing papers publicly.

“Around 60 per cent of the questions that came in the entrance test were already circulating on social media,” one aspirant told this newspaper on condition of anonymity.

The latest allegations mirror the controversy of 2023, when similar charges prompted a CBI probe and multiple arrests. This newspaper had extensively reported on the matter.