The UGC-NET is held twice a year to select deserving individuals for Assistant Professor and Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) positions in Indian government universities and colleges.
The NTA conducts the UGC NET exam in June and December, but the UGC NET 2020 exam for the December cycle is to be held in May (postponed ). The National Testing Agency (NTA) released the UGC NET CUT Off once the result is finalised and produces merit list.
The National Testing Agency (NTA) determines the UGC NET cut-off score in two methods. Candidates are initially shortlisted based on qualifying marks (category-wise). Then a merit list is created based on the scored marks. Only 6% of candidates will be accepted for Assistant/Associate Professorships based on the UGC NET cut-off December 2020 cycle.
The examination authority selects a specified number of candidates with a high rank in Assistant/Associate Professorship to be awarded JRF.
To be considered for a JRF or Assistant Professorship, candidates must achieve qualifying marks in both NTA UGC NET December 2020 cycle.
No changes were there in the Cut-off marks and it will be calculated maintaining the normalization procedure:
The candidates are required to obtain minimum marks separately in Paper-I and Paper-II as given below:
Category | Minimum Marks (%) to be obtained | ||
Paper-I | Paper-II | ||
General | 40 (40%) | 40 (40%) | |
ST/SC/PWD/OBC | 35 (35%) | 35 (35%) |
As per UGC, top 6% of the total candidates appeared in both the papers of UGC NET would be considered qualified for Assistant Professorship.
For awarding JRF, the authority selects a certain number of candidates having a high rank in the respective subjects and have applied for JRF.
The subject-wise cut-off score of UGC NET will be calculated after using the normalization procedure for exams held in multiple slots and sessions.
There is no change in process for deciding the cutoff and it will follow the same methodology.
Do you know what is the process of calculating the NTA UGC NET cut off and minimum qualifying Criteria percentages…
The process goes through multiple steps comprises the following steps in general.
Minimum marks to be obtained in NTA UGC NET for considering a candidate for the award of JRF and eligibility for Assistant Professor is as follows:
National Testing Agency (NTA) releases the UGC NET cut off scores of individual subjects on its website.
To qualify NTA UGC NET Cut off, the candidates are required to obtain the following minimum marks in both Paper-I and Paper-II. UGC NET Cut off qualifying criteria Step-by-Step are here:
Category | Minimum Marks (%) for qualified |
Paper I | Paper II |
General | 40% aggregate marks in both the papers taken together |
OBC (Non-creamy layer) PWD/ SC/ ST | 35% aggregate marks in both the papers taken together |
Amongst those candidates who have obtained Minimum marks a merit list will be prepared subject-wise and category-wise using the aggregate marks of two papers secured by such candidates.
The top 6% candidates (for each subject and category), from the merit list mentioned above, will be declared NET qualified for eligibility for Assistant Professor only.
A separate merit list for the award of JRF will be prepared from amongst the NET qualified candidates figuring in the above merit list prepared.
It may be noted that the above qualifying criteria decided by UGC/NTA are final and binding.
Step 1: The number of qualifying candidates (Eligibility for Assistant Professor) must equal 6% of the total number of candidates who appeared in both NET examinations.
Step 2: The slots will be assigned to different categories following India’s reservation policy.
Step 3: To be considered for the positions of ‘JRF and Eligibility for Assistant Professor’ and ‘Assistant Professor,’ the candidate must have taken both papers and obtained at least 40% aggregate marks in both pieces for the General (Unreserved) / General-EWS category candidates and at least 35% aggregate marks in both forms for all candidates.
Step 4: The number of candidates who will be declared qualified in any subject for a given category is calculated using the following methodology:
Example: For the Scheduled Caste (SC) group, the number of candidates to be deemed qualified for Eligibility for Assistant Professor in the subject ‘Economics’ is:
Several applicants from the SC category who scored at least 35% on both papers for the SC category in the ‘Economics’ category (x) As a result of Step II, the total number of slots for the SC category has been calculated. A total number of applicants from the SC category received at least a 35% aggregate mark in both papers put together across all subjects. The qualifying cutoff for Eligibility for Assistant Professor in ‘Economics’ for the SC category will be determined by the combined percentage of the two papers corresponding to the number of slots determined. For all categories, a similar yardstick will be used to determine subject-specific qualifying cutoffs.
Step 5: The consideration zone for JRF will consist of all applicants who applied for ‘Eligibility for JRF & Eligibility for Assistant Professor both’ out of the total number of qualifying applicants calculated in Step 4.
Step 6: The total number of examination slots available for JRFs are divided into several categories according to India’s reservation policy. The following is the mechanism for allocating JRF spaces by subject and cum category:
For the Scheduled Tribe (ST) category, the number of candidates to be declared qualified for JRF and Eligibility for Assistant Professor in the subject ‘Economics’ is as follows:
Several candidates from the ST category applied for JRF and qualified for Assistant Professor Eligibility in “Economics” (x). The JRF slots available in the ST category (total) Total number of candidates from the ST category who applied for JRF and qualified for Assistant Professor Eligibility across all fields. The qualifying cutoff for JRF in ‘Economics’ for the ST category will be determined by the sum of the two paper scores corresponding to the number of JRF slots determined. For all courses and categories, the exact location approach is applied.
It should be noted that the UGC’s decision on the above qualifying conditions is final and binding. The examination results will be posted on the NTA website, ugcnet.nta.nic.in. The candidates will not be notified of their products individually.
a) For multi-shift papers, candidates’ raw marks from multiple shifts/sessions will be transformed to an NTA Score (percentile).
b) The NTA Score adoption technique is provided on the NTA website under Normalization Process based on Percentile Score.
c) If a subject test is administered in multiple shifts, the NTA Score will be calculated based on the candidate’s raw marks. The NTA Score for the Raw Marks calculated for all shifts/sessions will be merged for further processing to determine allocation.
d) If the percentiles for the multi-shifts are dissimilar/uneven, the lowest percentile for that category will be the eligibility cutoff for all candidates (i.e., all shifts).
For example, suppose 40% of the marks in a two-shift examination equate to a Percentile score of 78 in Shift 1 and 79 in Shift 2. In that case, all individuals in the 78 percentiles (Percentile score of 100 to 78) in both shifts will be eligible for the General Category. The same idea applies if the examination is held in a more significant number of changes.
University Grants Commission wishes to clarify that earlier qualifying criterion for UGC-NET Exam involved qualifying top 15% of those candidates in each subject and category, who obtained the minimum required marks in both paper-I and paper-II according to the category of the candidates.
Subsequent to the orders of the Hon’ble High Court of Kerala, University Grants Commission had revised the procedure and criteria for qualifying candidates and as such it has been decided that more than 6% of the total candidates who appear in the UGC-NET examination will be declared qualified.
The qualifying percentage out of appeared candidates in the previous five UGC NET examinations is given below:
There will be no re-evaluation or re-verification of the results. There will be no correspondence in this regard.