New Delhi: The National Testing Agency (NTA), the exam conducting body, said that nearly 12.67 lakh applications have been registered for the ongoing UGC-NET 2021.
This time two pending editions of the exam — December 2020 and June 2021 — of the UGC-NET are being held together. The exam began on November 20.
According to data shared by the NTA, the exam will be conducted in 469 centres across 213 cities.
“To ensure a fair and smooth conduct of the day 1 examination, there were 1,783 jammers and 8142 CCTV cameras deployed across all centres which helped the national and regional coordinators appointed by NTA, to virtually observe the entire administration of the examination,” said the NTA.
The NTA said a total of 52,335 candidates took the exam in 36 different subjects on the first days with 13,975 taking the first shift for 19 subjects and 38,360 in the second shift for the remaining 17.
Approximately 48 per cent of the candidates were females. There were also four third gender candidates.
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