UGC NET mass failure: candidates to move court

Kochi: Candidates from Kerala who appeared for the National Eligibility Test (NET) by the University Grants Commission (UGC) on June 24 this year fear that the failure of many of them to get through the test may have been because of massive irregularities.

Around 5,71,627 candidates sat for the eligibility exam out of which 43,957 candidates were declared qualified. As many as 3,625 candidates qualified for Junior Research Fellowship (JRF). The candidates are highlighting the unusual number of candidates from certain centres who were declared eligible to show possibility of malpractices.

For example out of the candidates who opted history as main subject 1253 candidates in Uttar Pradesh were declared eligible. The figures for Kerala and Tamil Nadu in this category are 10 and 5 respectively. In Rajasthan and New Delhi the number of candidates who cleared the test are 500 and 254 respectively.

Candidates in South India fared poorly in the history stream with just 3 students clearing the test in Karnataka. The figures are respectively 5 and 3 for West Bengal and Gujarath.

Some centres recorded allegedly abnormal figures of success. In a national test in which only 43,957 candidates could clear the test an exam centre Guru Gobind Singh Indraprasth University had 5009 people passing the test. Around 4443 candidates who sat for exam at Allahabad University too cleared the test. The number of students who cleared the test from Rajasthan University are 3071.
The candidates are now planning to launch an agitation and move the court to demand a probe into the issue.