NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has released UGC NET July 2018 notification today on its official website - cbsenet.nic.in.
According to the notification, UGC NET examination for Junior Research Fellowship & Eligibility for Assistant Professor will be held on July 8, 2018.
As per revised pattern, the exam will feature two papers, namely Paper I (100 marks, 50 questions and all are compulsory) and Paper II (200 marks, 100 questions and all are compulsory). For Paper I, students will be given 1 hour (9:30 AM to 10:30 AM) and for Paper II, students will have 2 hours (11 AM to 1 PM).
Paper I will have 50 objective questions carrying 2 marks each and students will have to answer them all. These questions will test the reasoning ability, comprehension, divergent thinking and general knowledge of the candidate.
Paper II will have 100 objective type compulsory questions carrying 2 marks each and these will be based on the subject selected by the candidate.
There is no proposal to entrust the responsibility of conducting National Eligibility Test (NET) to any body other than the University Grants Commission, the ministry of human resource development (MHRD) informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
"As per directions of ministry of HRD, the CBSE has been conducting the UGC-NET examination. There is no proposal under consideration at present to entrust responsibility of conducting the exam through any other mechanism," said minister of state for HRD Upednra Kushwaha said in a written reply.
The national exam is held twice a year - July and December - for the grant of junior research fellowship and eligibility for assistant professorship in universities and colleges.
College Teachers to Protest for Relaxation
Thousands of college teachers from all over India will demonstrate outside the University Grants Commission (UGC) office on Monday demanding relaxation in eligibility norms for those who did their PhD before 2009 without qualifying for the national eligibility test (NET) or state level eligibility test (SLET). The teachers, who have met HRD minister Smriti Irani and UGC officials, have said that without relaxation, nearly 10 lakh teachers all over the country will lose their jobs. Though Irani has promised to look into the grievance, UGC officials said it would be difficult to relax the criteria now. "Supreme Court has upheld our regulation," an official said. The threat of job loss emanates from the Supreme Court order of March this year that upheld UGC's 2009 regulation on minimum qualifications required for teaching jobs in colleges and universities.
The University Grants Commission(UGC) would again conduct the national eligibility test (NET) on September 8 for students of Delhi and Ranchi who could not appear when it was originally held on June 30, an official statement said on Monday.
