New Delhi: The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Wednesday announced that the final answer keys and results of 84 subjects of the University Grants Commission-National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) and two other major examinations, will be released this week.
In a post on X, the NTA said: “The final answer keys and results for UGC-NET (84 Subjects), CSIR-NET and ICAR AIEEA (PG) & AICE (PhD) 2026 will be published on NTA’s website, this week.”
The testing agency has advised the candidates to rely only on official communications from the NTA.
This comes days after the NTA announced that it will re-conduct the UGC-NET for English, Sociology and Commerce in September, after several errors were found in the question papers.
“The position on these three, including their re-conduct, has been notified separately,” sources had said earlier, adding that the Sociology paper will be held on September 10, while the English and Commerce tests will be re-conducted on September 9.
Previously, as the NTA faced public ire over the re-examination for the UGC-NET papers of three subjects, the examination conducting body stated that it is proactively identifying issues and correcting them transparently in the interest of students, sources said.
Notably, the NTA conducted a series of national examinations between June and July, this year. The examinations for which answer keys are being processed, together span three major examinations, UGC-NET, CSIR-NET and ICAR (AIEEA-PG and AICE-PhD), conducted across 184 subjects and papers in all, comprising 24,700 distinct questions. Over 10 lakh candidates registered for the examination, and of these nearly 8 lakh appeared.
Sources had said that each of these questions has to be set, moderated, translated, typeset, administered and evaluated to a common standard. They further stated that given the sheer breadth of subjects and the volume of unique questions, one can grasp the sense of the scale and complexity of the process.
People familiar with the matter said that re-conducting a paper is “undoubtedly hard on the candidates” of the affected subjects, and the NTA is conscious of that. Therefore, the NTA has announced that the re-test will be held at no additional fee, and the number of qualifying candidates and the subject-wise allocations for those subjects will not be reduced.
(IANS)
