'Putzer for Ritzer, Parsow for Parsons': What are the typos, errors that forced NTA to cancel 3 UGC-NET papers?
Candidates and coaching teachers alleged several questions were repeated from the earlier UGC-NET cycles, particularly December 2024 and 2025.
The National Testing Agency (NTA) announced on Sunday that it will re-conduct the University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) for three papers - Sociology, English, and Commerce - due to "multiple errors" found in the exams held between June 22 and June 30. These errors comprised spelling mistakes, repetitive questions from previous years, and repeated option sequences.
The UGC-NET exam is administered to evaluate candidates for Assistant Professor positions and admission to PhD programs. This decision results in the cancellation of two major exams conducted by the agency this year, following the cancellation of the NEET-UG 2026 exam due to a paper leak that triggered nationwide protests. The NTA formed a committee to investigate complaints regarding errors in the English, Commerce, and Sociology question papers.
The committee identified issues such as factual errors, typographical mistakes, translation errors, misspelled names of prominent scholars, garbled book titles, incorrect question stems, grammatical errors, gender and number agreement mistakes, punctuation mistakes, non-standard coined terms, repetition of questions, and more. Based on the committee's recommendations, the NTA decided to re-conduct these three papers to ensure a fair and error-free examination.
The English paper will be held on September 9 from 9am to noon, the Commerce paper will be held on the same day from 3pm to 6pm, and the Sociology paper will be conducted on September 10 from 9am to noon. The NTA has stated that no additional examination fee will be charged for the re-conduct.
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