For the past two years, Manas Sharma's life revolved around one goal - cracking the tough exam that would get him admission to a medical college in India so he could become a doctor.
But the exam - the National Eligibility Entrance Test (Undergraduate), known as NEET-UG - has been at the centre of a controversy this year following allegations that the question paper was leaked.
On Tuesday, the federal government's National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts the exam, cancelled the test that took place on 3 May because of an investigation into the allegations.
The agency also said that a new date for a retest would be announced next week.
"It just left me shocked," says Sharma, who sat the exam on 3 May.
