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UGC-NET Hits Reset: NTA Orders Re-Test After Major Errors Found in 3 Papers

Published: 17 August 2026 · 1 min read

What Happened

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has ordered a fresh UGC-NET June 2026 examination for English, Commerce and Sociology after an expert committee found multiple errors in the question papers. The issues included factual mistakes, typographical and translation errors, misspelled scholar names, garbled book titles, grammatical mistakes, and repetition of questions from previous exams.

Key Takeaways

In a rare move, NTA decided that the scale of errors was too serious to be fixed through the answer-key challenge process alone. The affected candidates will get a free re-exam, highlighting concerns over exam quality control in one of India's most important higher-education eligibility tests.

Sources

India Today, Mint