The National Testing Agency (NTA) has ordered a fresh examination for the English, Commerce and Sociology papers of UGC-NET June 2026 after a review panel found multiple issues in the question papers.
The decision came after candidates raised concerns about the quality of the papers.
In its announcement, the NTA said an expert committee examined the complaints and identified “substantive issues”. These included factual and typographical mistakes, translation errors, missing names of scholars, garbled book titles and problems with the wording of questions.
The review also flagged grammatical and numerical errors, unclear answer options, non-standard terminology used for established concepts and repetition of questions or options. The NTA said the scale of the problems meant they could not be addressed simply by dropping the affected questions during the answer-key process.
The three papers will now be conducted again on the following dates:
English: September 9, 2026, from 9 AM to 12 PM
Commerce: September 9, 2026, from 3 PM to 6 PM
Sociology: September 10, 2026, from 9 AM to 12 PM
Candidates will not have to pay an additional examination fee for the re-conducted exams. Details of examination centres and admit cards will be announced separately by the NTA.
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