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Jun
Pandey was befuddled. So was Saurabh Pant, co-founder and academic director of Vijayawada-based coaching centre Sri Gosalites Medical Academy. Pant and his team of teachers were stunned for half an hour and were silent “as if someone had died". In Mumbai, a parent working in the tea industry decided not to leave his daughter alone that evening. Nearly 2.4 million students wrote the exam in order to gain admission in undergraduate medical programmes. Now, their fate hangs in the balance. What went wrong? Some students secured abnormally high scores—67 of them scored 720 marks, the highest possible in the nationwide…