NTA accepts multiple flaws in 3 UGC-NET papers, orders re-test

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The announcement came hours after NTA published answer keys for UGC-NET June 2026 exam and days after several students flagged discrepancies and errors in question papers, as well as repeated questions from exams held recently.

New Delhi: The saga of leaks, errors, exam cancellations and re-tests continues at the National Testing Agency, which on Sunday announced re-examination for three papers of UGC-NET - English, Commerce and Sociology. NTA has acknowledged serious defects in question papers, which has been confirmed by an internal enquiry committee.

The announcement came hours after NTA published answer keys for UGC-NET June 2026 exam and days after several students flagged discrepancies and errors in question papers, as well as repeated questions from exams held recently.

An official committee has found that the three papers contained "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", alongside a "repetition of a significant number of questions previously administered", NTA said in a public notice issued on Sunday.

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NTA concluded that papers with such flaws "do not meet the standards of fairness and error-free examination" and that the defects "cannot be cured merely by dropping questions after the challenge process".

Re-examinations will take place on September 9 (English in shift 1, Commerce in shift 2) and September 10 (Sociology in shift 1). Candidates won't face any additional fees.