The Nationwide Testing Company (NTA) on Sunday introduced the retest for 3 papers of the UGC-NET June 2026 examination — English, Commerce and Sociology — following complaints about a number of errors in these papers.
The English paper might be held on September 9 from 9 am to 12 midday in Shift 1, whereas the Commerce paper might be performed the identical day from 3 pm to six pm in Shift 2.
The Sociology paper might be held on September 10 from 9 am to 12 midday in Shift 1.
The NTA performed the UGC-NET June 2026 examination from June 22 to 30 throughout 87 topics for the award of Junior Analysis Fellowship (JRF), eligibility for assistant professor, and admission to PhD programmes.
In a public discover, the NTA mentioned it had acquired a number of complaints about a number of errors in these papers of the three topics and constituted a committee to look into these points.
The committee discovered that the three papers had many factual, typographical, and translation errors together with misspelt names of distinguished students, garbled ebook titles, errors within the stem wording of questions, grammatical errors, gender and quantity settlement errors, punctuation errors, and non-standard coined phrases for established ideas, in addition to repetition of a major variety of questions beforehand administered, the company mentioned.
The panel really helpful that within the curiosity of holding a good and error-free examination, these three papers ought to be re-conducted, it added.
“It has due to this fact been concluded by NTA that papers carrying such defects don’t meet the requirements of equity and error-free examination, and defects of this extent can’t be cured merely by dropping questions after the problem course of,” the company mentioned.
It mentioned no further examination charge might be charged from candidates showing for the re-test.
Additional particulars relating to the town, examination centre and admit card might be notified individually on the official web site, it mentioned.
The NTA mentioned outcomes for the 84 topics for which Reply Key Problem was issued earlier right this moment might be declared as per schedule.
“Allocation of JRF seats and issuance of e-certificates for eligibility for Assistant Professor and for admission to PhD for these 84 topics won’t be delayed because of re-conduct of the examination for the three topics,” it mentioned.
The company mentioned the variety of candidates to be certified for eligibility for assistant professor shall be equal to six per cent of the candidates who appeared within the check performed in June 2026, or the retest, whichever is greater.
Equally, the subject-wise allocation for the remaining three topics for JRF, eligibility for assistant professor and, eligibility for admission to PhD might be executed as talked about within the Info Bulletin, it mentioned.
“After the retest, the numbers already allotted for every topic shall not be lowered beneath any circumstances,” the NTA mentioned.
The company mentioned it stays dedicated to conducting examinations which can be “truthful, correct and clear” and suggested candidates to rely solely on its official web sites and official communications.
