GUWAHATI: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has announced a re-conduct of the UGC-NET June 2026 examination for English, Commerce and Sociology after a committee identified multiple errors in the question papers.
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The UGC-NET June 2026 examination was conducted from June 22 to 30 across 87 subjects for the award of Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), eligibility for Assistant Professor and admission to PhD programmes. According to NTA, several complaints were received regarding multiple errors in
the English, Commerce and Sociology papers.
A committee constituted by the NTA found several factual, typographical and translation errors in the three papers. These included incorrect names of prominent scholars, garbled book titles, errors in the wording of questions, grammatical mistakes, gender and number agreement errors, punctuation mistakes and non-standard coded terms. The committee also noted that some questions contained multiple answers and that some options were repeated.
The NTA said the extent of the defects meant they could not be rectified merely by dropping questions after the challenge process. The committee therefore recommended that the three papers be re-conducted to ensure a fair and error-free examination.
The re-examination will be held according to the following schedule: English on September 9, 2026, from 9 AM to 12 noon; Commerce on September 9 from 3 PM to 6 PM; and Sociology on September 10 from 9 AM to 12 noon.
Further details regarding examination cities, centres and admit cards will be notified separately on the official UGC-NET website. NTA has also clarified that candidates appearing for the re-examination will not be charged any additional examination fee.
The agency said results for the remaining 84 subjects for which the Answer Key Challenge was issued earlier will be declared as scheduled. The allocation of JRF seats and issuance of e-certificates for eligibility for Assistant Professor and admission to PhD for these 84 subjects will not be delayed because of the re-conduct of the three examinations.
NTA has further stated that the number of candidates to be qualified for eligibility for Assistant Professor will be equal to 6% of the candidates who appeared in the June 2026 test or the re-test, whichever is higher.
For the three affected subjects, the subject-wise allocation for JRF, Assistant Professor eligibility and PhD admission eligibility will be carried out as prescribed in the Information Bulletin. NTA said that after the re-test, the numbers already allocated for each subject will not be reduced under any circumstances.
Meanwhile, the UGC-NET 2026 provisional answer key was released on August 16, and candidates can submit challenges until August 18. Challenges will be examined by designated subject-matter experts, and where a challenge is found to be correct on merit, the provisional answer key will be revised before evaluation against the final answer key.