NTA Announces Re-Exam For 3 UGC NET Papers Due To ‘Many Errors’
As per the NTA committee's report, the three UGC NET papers had many factual, typographical, translation errors including misspelt names of prominent scholars and garbled book titles.
NEW DELHI: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has announced the reconduct of the University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test (UGC NET) June 2026 for the English, Commerce, and Sociology papers following many factual, typographical, translation errors including misspelt names of prominent scholars and garbled book titles were found in the papers.
The official notification stated that the English, Commerce, and Sociology exams will be re-conducted as per the given schedule.
- English: September 9, 2026 (Shift 1) 9 am to 12 pm
- Commerce: September 9, 2026 (Shift 2) 3 pm to 6 pm
- Sociology: September 10 2026 (Shift 1) 9 am to 12 pm
To view the detailed official notification, click here.
The NTA conducted the UGC NET June 2026 examinations from June 22 to 30, and a retest on July 5, 2026, across 87 subjects, for the award of Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), eligibility for Assistant Professor, and admission to PhD programmes.
The NTA had received several complaints on multiple errors in the three papers. Accordingly, the testing agency formed a committee to enquire into and look into these errors, it said.
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“The Committee found that the three papers had many factual, typographical, translation errors including misspelt names of prominent scholars, garbled book titles, errors in the stem wording of questions, grammatical errors, gender and number agreement errors, punctuation mistakes, and non-standard coined terms for established concepts, as well as repetition of a significant number of questions previously administered. The Committee recommended that, in the interest of holding a fair and error-free examination, these three papers should be re-conducted,” said the official notification.
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As per the official announcement, further details related to test city, exam centre, and admit card will be notified separately on the official website by the exam body.
“No additional examination fee will be charged from the candidates of these three subjects for the re-conduct,” the NTA said.
The NTA issued the provisional answer key PDFs for 84 subjects today. The UGC NET 2026 results for these papers will be declared as per schedule, the testing agency stated. Allocation of JRF seats and issuance of e-certificates for these 84 subjects will not be delayed due to re-conduct of the examination for the three subjects, the NTA asserted.