UGC NET December results 2024 by next week; how will NTA award marks for dropped questions?
Anu Parthiban | February 6, 2025 | 01:10 PM IST | 3 mins read
UGC NET results for December 2024 are expected to be declared latest by next week, as per past trends. Over 6.49 lakh candidates await the results to be hosted on ugcnet.nta.ac.in.
NEW DELHI: The National Testing Agency (NTA) is expected to announce the University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test (UGC NET) December 2024 result date soon. As per the past trends, the UGC NET results and final answer key is expected to be out by next week on its official website, ugcnet.nta.ac.in. Around 6.49 lakh candidates took the UGC NET December exams 2024.
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The NTA conducted the UGC NET exam to determine the eligibility of candidates for assistant professor and Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), or for PhD admissions. A total of 8,49,166 candidates registered to appear for the NTA NET exam at 558 exam centres in 266 cities across the country. Of them, 6,49,490 appeared in the exam held between January 3 to January 27 by recording an attendance of 76.5%.
The UGC NET exam was held for a total of 85 subjects in computer-based test (CBT) format. The facility to challenge the UGC NET provisional answer key was closed on February 3. A panel of subject experts will review the objections to prepare the final answer key and results.
In the last session, over 11 lakh candidates registered, out of which 6.84 lakh appeared. As per the UGC NET results 2024, a total of 4,970 candidates qualified for JRF, 53,694 for assistant professor only, and 1,12,070 for PhD admissions.
How are marks calculated for UGC NET?
The question paper had 150 questions carrying a total of 300 marks. Part 1 has 50 questions carrying 100 marks and intends to test the teaching and research aptitude of the candidate. Part 2 has 100 subject-specific questions carrying 200 marks. There will be no negative marking for incorrect answers, as per the marking scheme.
- Each correct answer will fetch 2 marks.
- No marks will be awarded for incorrect answers.
- No negative marking for incorrect answers.
- No marks for unanswered questions
- If a question is found to be incorrect or dropped from the final answer key, two marks will be awarded only to those candidates who attempted the question.
- If a question is found to be ambiguous or has multiple correct answers, marks will be given to only those candidates who have attempted and chosen one of the correct answers.
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UGC NET cut-off
Only those candidates who obtain the qualifying cut-offs will be declared pass in UGC NET December 2024 exam . Category-wise UGC NET cut-offs here.
|
Category |
Minimum percentage in paper 1 (out of 100) |
Minimum percentage n paper 2 (out of 200) |
|
General |
40% |
40% |
|
OBC, SC, ST, PwD |
35% |
35% |
UGC NET result date trends
The UGC NET results for the December 2024 exams are expected to be announced three to four weeks after the exam date, as per past trends.
|
Session |
UGC NET exam date |
UGC NET result date trends |
|
December 2024 |
January 3 to 16, 2025 |
To be announced |
|
June 2024 |
August 21 and September 5, 2024 (Re-exam) |
October 17, 2024 |
|
December 2023 |
December 6 to 14, 2023 |
January 18, 2023 |
|
June 2023 |
June 13 to June 22, 2023 |
July 25, 2023 |
|
December 2022 |
February 21 to March 15, 2023 |
April 13, 2023 |
|
December 2021 and June 2022 |
Phase 1: July 9, 11, and 12, 2022 Phase 2: September 20 to 23, 2022 Phase 3: September 29, 30, and October 1, 2022 Phase 4: October 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 22, 2022 |
November 5, 2022 |
|
June 2021 |
November 20 to January 05, 2022 |
February 19, 2022 |
|
December 2020 |
September 24 to November 13, 2020 |
December 02, 2020 |
|
December 2019 |
December 02 to 06, 2019 |
December 31, 2019 |
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