UGC NET 2022 Exam Date: Merged December/June Exam to be Conducted in June 2022

UGC NET 2022 Exam Date is scheduled for June 2022 for the combined cycles of December 2021 and June 2022. It is expected that UGC NET 2022 Exam will be carried out in the first or second week of June 2022. Once the administrating body, National Testing Agency (NTA), finalises the dates, the official UGC NET Schedule 2022 will be announced.

M. Jagadesh Kumar, Chairman of the University Grants Commission, made this announcement via his official Twitter handle. "For the merged cycles of Dec 2021 and June 2022, UGC NET 2022 will be conducted in the first or second week of June 2022. The exact schedule would be announced once the NTA finalizes the dates, " he wrote in the tweet.

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NTA is yet to declare the official dates for UGC NET Exam 2022. NTA will update the official schedule of UGC NET 2022 on the exam's official website, ugcnet.nta.nic.in. The application process for the examination is yet to start. UGC NET Application Form will be available by April end or May beginning, tentatively. The application form will be available online on UGC NET official website.

UGC-NET Exam is held twice a year. However, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the University Grants Commission has decided to combine the examination cycles and hold them only once a year. UGC NET is held for the recruitment of the posts of Assistant Professorships, Junior Research Fellowships, or both in various Indian Colleges and Universities. For the position of JRF, the UGC NET Certificate is now valid for three years while the certificate for the positions of assistant professor/lecturer is valid for a lifetime.

UGC had previously stated that a PhD will no longer be required to teach in central institutions. The decision was made so that industry professionals without PhDs can apply for assistant professor positions at colleges and universities around the country.

Last year, UGC NET was held between November 20, 2021 and December 5, 2021. Over 12.6 lakh people enrolled for the exam, which was held in 469 authorised exam centres across 213 cities. The examination was conducted for a total of 81 papers. Only 6,71,288 candidates appeared for the exam out of 12,66,509 applicants and only 52,857 of the total candidates passed the exam.

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