UGC-NET June 2024 Results Declared by NTA
October 18, 2024
The National Testing Agency (NTA) officially declared the results for the UGC-NET June 2024 examination. As announced under public notice issued on 17 October, the UGC-NET is a prestigious examination conducted by the University Grants Commission for determining the eligibility of Indian nationals for appointment as Lecturers/ Assistant Professors in colleges and universities. It is also offered as a qualifying examination for the Junior Research Fellowships (JRF) NET award.
The UGC-NET June 2024 was held in Computer-Based Test (CBT) mode in 280 cities across the country on 83 subjects. The test was conducted over 21 shifts over 11 days from August 21 to September 5, 2024. The total registration for the exam stood at 11,21,225, while 6,84,224 candidates appeared in the test.
The exam showed diversified participation, with 4,85,578 male candidates, 6,35,588 female candidates, and 59 third-gender people. With so many registrations, around 60% of the registered appeared for the examination.
Transparency and Challenges
In keeping with the objectives for transparency in the examination process, it has now been made sure that question papers, provisional answer keys, and also recorded responses of candidates are available on the official website of the NTA from September 7, 2024 to September 14, 2024. During these two days, candidates were solicited to key in any disputes against the provisional answer key. The subject matter experts then checked such disputes and prepared the final results based on the verified answer key.
Result Analysis
The exam results expose the competitiveness in the UGC-NET June 2024 test as only 4,970 out of 6,84,224 who appeared for the exam qualified for the Junior Research Fellowship to make them eligible for research fellowships and Assistant Professor positions besides 53,694 who qualified only for the position of Assistant Professor and 1,12,070 who qualified only to gain admission for PhD programmes.
Post-Result Processes
For the eligible candidates, NTA reiterated that their eligibility conditions, self-declarations, and other additional documents submitted along with the applications will be verified as mentioned in the norms in the official Information Bulletin of UGC-NET June 2024. NTA clarifies that it does not bear the onus of the correctness or authenticity of any documents submitted during the application process.
The NTA will soon provide them with the certificates of those who have qualified so that they can forward themselves for their respective academic and research opportunities.
Conclusion
The UGC-NET remains an important gate to a career in academics and research in India, opening the doors of the academic empire to candidates. Incident-free completion of the June 2024 examination and the transparent declaration process for the result underline the NTA's commitment to fair and reliable assessments. The successful candidates are now geared to take forward the next phase of their academic pursuit - as researchers or teachers or for further studies.
More details regarding the result and check can be found at the official NTA UGC-NET portal: https://ugcnet.nta.ac.in.