NTA urges UGC-NET candidates to formally challenge alleged errors

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has responded to concerns over alleged errors in the UGC-NET Sociology paper and reported repetition of questions in the English paper, urging candidates to formally challenge such issues through its grievance redressal mechanism.

Responding to the controversy, sources said students need to challenge the questions in the paper and submit formal queries to the NTA.

Sources said the agency would examine all genuine objections raised by candidates, citing the recent Re-NEET examination as an example of its review process. The NTA promises to look into the errors. We received 10,000 challenges from students regarding the Re-NEET exam paper.

One question was retracted after the challenge was found to be valid. We will do the same for UGC-NET as well, but students need to submit their grievances formally through the grievance redressal portal,” sources said. Addressing concerns over repeated questions and typographical errors, they said such issues are not unusual and reiterated that candidates must follow the prescribed process to raise objections.

The clarification comes after a UGC-NET aspirant alleged on a social media platform that the Sociology paper conducted on June 30 contained multiple spelling, grammar, and translation errors. In a post that went viral, the candidate claimed that nearly half the paper was affected by mistakes, including misspelled names of sociologists and incorrect translations in the Hindi version of the question paper.