Students Cry Foul as UGC NET Introduced New Qualifying Criteria

With the results of the University Grants Commission’s National Eligibility Test (NET) out on 18 September 2012, students seem to be anything but happy as their hopes to crack the national test came crashing.

For the very first time Net was conducted in an objective pattern keeping all the three papers in two sessions. The taking in of new qualifying criteria by the UGC has denied thousands of candidates an opportunity for lectureship in universities and colleges.

The last minute change absorbed by NET came as a shocker to students . Initially, it was decided that each paper one and two would avail 40% and a minimum of 50% would be required for the third paper.

However, as per the sudden change declared along with the results, the candidate taking the NET must bring his/her aggregate of all the papers up to a stoic 65% maintaining the fact that all the three individual papers must have a 40, 40 and a 50% respectively.

It should also be noted that while NET/State Eligibility Test (SET) is the minimum eligibility for recruitment of assistant professors in universities/ colleges/ institutions, candidates with Ph.D. in accordance with the UGC Regulations, 2009, are exempted from clearing this examination.

The sudden changes done by UGC has caused a stir of depression amongst NET aspirants , wasting all their hard work. The University Grants Commission’s National Eligibility Test (NET) was conducted in June 2013.