CSIR UGC NET Answer Key Declared, Check the Details

NEW DELHI: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has released the provisional answer key and question paper with recorded responses for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test (CSIR UGC NET) December 2024.

Candidates who appeared in the exam held on February 28, and March 1 and 2, 2025 can download the provisional answer key from the official website, https://csirnet.nta.ac.in/

“The National Testing Agency has uploaded the Provisional Answer Keys along with the Question Papers with Recorded Responses on the website https://csirnet.nta.ac.in/ for inviting challenges (if any) to the Provisional Answer Key of any question online only,” said a notification issued by the NTA.

To see the full notification, click here.  

Candidates, who are not satisfied with the answer key, may challenge the same by paying a fee of Rs. 200 per question challenged as a non-refundable processing fee.

The payment of the processing fee may be paid through credit card, debit card, net banking or UPl payment modes till March 14, 2025.

For direct link to apply for answer key challenge, click here.

The NTA will not accept any challenge without receipt of the processing fee. The fee towards the challenge will not be accepted through any other mode other than online, the notification said.

The final result of the CSIR UGC NET will be prepared based on the revised answer key.

No individual candidate will be informed about the acceptance or non-acceptance of challenge. The key finalised by the experts after the challenge will be final.

The exam was conducted on 326 exam centres located in 164 cities across the country. Nearly 2,38,451 candidates appeared in the exam held in Computer Based Test (CBT) mode.

The Joint CSIR-UGC NET Examination June 2025 assesses eligibility for Junior Research Fellowships, assistant professor positions, and admission to PhD programmes exclusively in Indian universities and colleges.