IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND DATES AT A GLANCE
(Please refer to Information Bulletin for details)
Dates, Fee Details and Application Procedure:
EVENTS DATES
- Online registration and submission of Application Form (complete in all respect) through NTA Website: https://ugcnet.nta.ac.in/ 20th April 2024 to 10th May 2024
- Last date for successful transaction of Examination fee (through Credit Card/ Debit Card/Net Banking/UPI Payment Modes 11th May 2024 to 12th May 2024 (up to 11:50pm)
- Fee Payable for UGC – NET June 2024 (Pay fee using the Payment Gateway(s) integrated to the Online Application through Net Banking Debit Card / Credit Card / UPI)
- General/Unreserved Rs. 1150/-
- Gen-EWS*/ OBC-NCL** Rs. 600/-
- Scheduled Caste (SC) / Scheduled Tribes (ST) / Person with Disability (PwD) /Third gender Rs. 325/-
- Applicable service/processing charges & GST over and above the Examination Fee, are to be Paid by the candidate to the concerned Bank/
- Payment Gateway Integrator. For details, Appendix -I may be referred to.
- Correction in the Particulars of Application Form online only 13th May 2024 to 15th May 2024
- Intimation of Cities of exam centres To be Intimated Later
- Downloading of Admit Card by the Candidate from NTA Website To be Intimated Later
- Dates of Examination 16 June 2024
- Duration of Examination 180 minutes (03 hours)
- No break between Paper 1 & Paper 2
- Timing of Examination To be Intimated Later
- Exam Centre, Date and Shift As indicated on the Admit Card
- Display of Recorded Responses and Provisional Answer Keys on the Website for inviting challenge(s) from Interested candidates. To be announced later on website
- Declaration of Result on NTA website To be Intimated Later
- Website(s) www.nta.ac.in , https://ugcnet.nta.ac.in/;
University Grants Commission - National Eligibility Test June 2024
Introduction
1. About National Testing Agency (NTA)
The Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India (GOI)
has established the National Testing Agency (NTA) as an independent,
autonomous, and self-sustained premier testing organization under the Societies
Registration Act (1860) for conducting efficient, transparent and international
standards tests in order to assess the competency of candidates for admissions to
premier higher education institutions.
The NTA has been entrusted by the University Grants
Commission (UGC) with the task of conducting UGC-NET which is a test to
determine the eligibility of Indian nationals for ‘award of Junior Research
Fellowship and appointment as Assistant Professor’, ‘appointment as Assistant
Professor and admission to Ph.D.’ and ‘admission to Ph.D. only’ in Indian
universities and colleges.
2. About University Grants Commission (UGC)
The University Grant Commission (UGC) is a Statuary Body of
Government of India, Ministry of Education, Department of Higher Education,
constituted under the University Grants Commission Act, 1956, vested with two
responsibilities: that of providing funds and that of coordination,
determination and maintenance of standards in institutions of higher education.
The
UGC`s mandate includes:
• Promoting and coordinating university education.
• Determining and maintaining standards of teaching,
examination and research in universities.
• Framing regulations on minimum standards of education.
• Monitoring developments in the field of collegiate and
university education; disbursing grants to the universities and colleges.
• Serving as a vital link between the Union and state
governments and institutions of higher learning.
• Advising the Central and State governments on the measures
necessary for improvement of university education.
3. University Grants Commission – National Eligibility Test (UGC – NET)
3.1 UGC-NET is a test
to determine the eligibility of Indian nationals for ‘award of Junior Research
Fellowship and appointment as Assistant Professor’, ‘appointment as Assistant
Professor and admission to Ph.D.’ and ‘admission to Ph.D. only’ in Indian
universities and colleges.
The candidates qualifying under the ‘appointment as
Assistant Professor and admission to Ph.D.’ category will be eligible for
appointment as Assistant Professor and admission to Ph.D. but not for the award
of JRF.
The candidates qualifying under the ‘admission to Ph.D.
only’ category will be eligible for admission to Ph.D. only but not for the
award of JRF and/or appointment as Assistant Professor.
The eligibility will
be determined in the following manner:
Qualified for Eligible for
|
Qualified for |
Eligible for |
||
|
|
JRF |
Assistant
Professor |
Ph.D. admission |
|
Award of JRF and appointment as Assistant
Professor |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Category-2 Appointment as Assistant Professor and
admission to Ph.D. |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Category-3 Admission to Ph.D. only |
No |
No |
Yes |
The JRF-qualified candidates are admitted into the Ph.D.
programme based on an interview as per the UGC (Minimum Standards and
Procedures for Award of Ph.D. Degree) Regulations, 2022.
UGC NET under category-2 category-3 can be used as an
entrance test for Ph.D. admission in place of entrance tests conducted by the
different universities/HEIs for admission to Ph.D.
For candidates qualified under the category-2 and
category-3, the marks obtained in the NET will have 70% weightage and 30%
weightage will be based on the performance in the interview/viva voce conducted
by the University/HEI concerned.
The Ph.D. admission will be based on the combined merit of
NET marks and the marks obtained in the interview/viva voce.
For admission to Ph.D., the marks obtained in the NET by the
candidates in category-2 and category-3 will be valid for a period of one year
from the date of declaration of the result of UGC-NET.
The result of NET will be declared in percentile along with
the marks obtained by a candidate to utilize the marks for admission to Ph.D.
The number of candidates who will be qualified for
‘admission to the Ph.D. only’ will be decided by the results committee.
3.2 The selection of
candidates for the following Fellowships will be made through the Ministry of
Social Justice and
Empowerment:
• National Fellowship for Scheduled Caste Students (NFSC)
• National Fellowship for Other Backward Classes
(NFOBC)
• National Fellowship for Persons with Disabilities (NFPwD)
Candidates aspiring for the Fellowships listed above, shall
also have to apply for the Test.
UGC – NET June 2024
The UGC - NET June 2024 will be conducted in OMR Based mode
as per the time schedule specified in the Information at a glance, in the
Subjects given at Appendix -II in selected Cities spread across the Country
(Appendix -VII).
4.1 Mode of Examination
The Examination shall be conducted in OMR Based mode only.
4.2 Pattern of Examination
The Test will consist of two papers. Both the papers will
consist of objective type, multiple choice questions. There will be no break
between papers.
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