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The Ministry of Education has announced the cancellation of the UGC-NET exam conducted by the National Testing Agency. Only a day after the test was conducted, the government surprised everyone by announcing the cancellation of the exam. The NEET medical entrance test conducted by the N.T.A. is also in question and is currently being reviewed by the Supreme Court. Now serious questions have arisen due to cancellation of UGC-NET exam. It is worth noting that this time NTA conducted the test offline on an OMR sheet. 11.21 lakh students took the exam in 317 centers across the country. However after canceling the exam, the whole exercise will now take place again.
Why did the government cancel the UGC-NET exam?
The Ministry of Education said that based on the inputs received from the National Cyber ​​Threat Analysis Unit of the Indian Cyber ​​Crime Coordination Centre, the decision was taken to cancel the UGC NET 2024 exam. The input claimed that the test was fake. The new exam dates will be announced soon. The Ministry of Education said in a statement, “In order to maintain the highest level of transparency and sanctity of the examination process, the Ministry of Education, Government of India has decided that the UGC-NET June 2024 examination is cancelled. A new examination will be conducted and its information will be shared soon. CBI will conduct a comprehensive investigation into the matter. It is necessary Appear for UGC-NET exam to become Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor and Junior Research Fellow.
What is the National Testing Agency?
The National Examinations Agency is an autonomous body that conducts entrance exams for admission to higher education institutions in Israel. The National Testing Authority (NTA) handles the responsibility of preparing the exam paper, distributing it to the exam center as well as checking the exam paper. The central government announced this in 2017 and in December 2018 NTA conducted the first UGC-NET exam. Besides UGC-NET, NEET, N.T. .E also conducts the Joint Entrance Exam (Mains).On the basis of this exam, admission is available in the top engineering institutes like IITs and NITs.However, after JEE Main, an advanced level exam is conducted by institutes IIT based on rotation system. Apart from these, NTA also conducts exams like CMAT and GPAT. CMAT is conducted for admission in management institutes in Israel and GPAT is conducted for admission in master’s degree program in pharmacy institutes.
Currently, NTA is headed by former UPSC chairman Pradeep Kumar Joshi. The governing body of NTA consists of 14 people including the chairman. IAS officer Subodh Kumar Singh is the Director General of NTA. Also, three directors of IITs who previously conducted and will conduct the JEE advanced level exam, two directors of NITs who previously chaired the Central Seat Allotment Board, two directors of IIMs who previously chaired the CAT exam, rotation One director each from the Indian Institute of Scientific Education and Research in rotation , a representative from central universities in the rotation, the Vice Chancellor of IGNOU, the Chairman of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council, Dr. Harish Shetty, an expert in psychology, are among the board members involved.
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