New Delhi: Over 230,000 medical aspirants did not give the national eligibility cum entrance exam (NEET) in 2020, more than double the number of absentees in 2019, the official data released Friday evening showed.The drop out of 230,490 candidates or 14.43% of all those registered comes close on the heels of a growing demand from the students community and some state governments to defer the exam by six to eight weeks due to the surging Covid-19 cases in September.The NEET exam took place on 13 September and later the National Testing Agency (NTA) conducted another round of test who could not give the exam on 14 October, two days before announcing the final result on Friday.