New Delhi, July 22 -- Panshul Bansal, who secured All India Rank (AIR) 2 in the NEET UG 2026 re-examination, recalled how he was initially "despaired" after the exam was cancelled but later viewed it as an "opportunity" to perform better.

"The conduct of exams is not in your hands. So, look at it this way - what happened, happened for the best. Take it as an opportunity to perform even better and score higher," Bansal was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.

Bansal's remarks come at a time when the national capital is witnessing protests demanding education reforms and the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over the NEET paper leak.

Bansal, a student of KR Mangalam World School in Greater Kailash, New Delhi, sco...