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NTA cancels UGC-NET papers for three subjects amid error allegations

NTA cancels UGC-NET papers for three subjects amid error allegations
Protocol violation, delay heat on NTA after it cancels UGC-NET papers for 3 subjects - Telegraph India · telegraphindia.com

There is a big test in India called the UGC-NET that students take to become teachers or researchers.

This year, the agency that runs the test, called the NTA, made mistakes in three of the test papers.

The papers for English, commerce, and sociology had spelling errors, wrong translations, and questions that were copied from an older test.

Because of these mistakes, the NTA cancelled those three papers and said students will have to take the test again.

Many people are upset because the NTA took 47 days to tell students about the cancellation.

Some experts say the NTA broke its own rules for making test questions.

Students think the delay happened because the government did not want more bad news about exams.

The education minister has now asked the NTA to fix its problems and check all its exam processes.

The NTA has not yet answered questions about what went wrong.

Key facts

Exam
UGC-NET (National Eligibility Test)
Cancelled subjects
English, Commerce, Sociology
Subjects with answer keys released
84 of 87
Days between exam end and cancellation
47
Exam conclusion date
June 30
Repeated questions in English paper
67 of 150, allegedly from December 2024 NET
Employees removed from NTA
More than 50
New leadership positions advertised
10

Quotes

Rajeev Kumar

Retired IIT Kharagpur professor of computer science and NET question-setting expert

“The NTA clearly failed its own protocols. When numerous questions are directly lifted from previous years’ papers, it raises serious questions about whether the prescribed safeguards were followed. The basic spelling errors in the names of eminent scholars suggest the selection of substandard experts.”
telegraphindia.com

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