NTA to Reconduct UGC-NET English, Commerce, Sociology Papers in September

The National Testing Agency has announced it will reconduct the UGCNET June 2026 examination for three subjects-English, Commerce, and Sociology-following the discovery of significant errors in the original question papers. The retest is scheduled for September 9 and 10, 2026.

The original UGCNET June 2026 examination was conducted from June 22 to June 30 across 87 subjects. The exam is a key gateway for determining eligibility for Junior Research Fellowships, assistant professor positions, and PhD admissions in Indian colleges and universities. After the examination, the NTA received multiple complaints from candidates regarding errors in the English, Commerce, and Sociology papers.

In response, the agency constituted a committee to investigate the concerns. According to an official NTA release, the committee found numerous issues, including factual, typographical, and translation errors. Specific problems identified were misspelled names of scholars, garbled book titles, errors in question wording, grammatical mistakes, and punctuation errors. The committee also noted that a significant number of questions had been repeated from previous examinations.