When the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced that UGC-NET examinations for English, Commerce, and Sociology held in June 2026 will be scrapped, and they will now take place in the second week of September, my first reaction was that of panic. Making the announcement on 16 August, the NTA has given 23 days to students like me to prepare, once again, for a national-level examination.
I am a PhD scholar in the Sociology Department. After I appeared for the UGC-NET examination in June, I was among those who raised concerns about all the problems with the Sociology paper—typos, factual errors, and questions that were unclear or confusing. I wrote about it in July.
Now, the NTA itself has acknowledged these issues.
According to the testing body, an expert committee found "major factual, typographical and translation errors" as well as repeated questions in the original paper. But my question is simple: Why couldn't the NTA get the examination right the first time?