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About the NET

The National Educational Testing Bureau of University Grants Commission (UGC)

conducts National Eligibility Test (NET) to determine eligibility for lectureship
and for award of Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) for Indian nationals in order to
ensure minimum standards for the entrants in the teaching profession and research.
The Test is conducted in Humanities (including languages), Social Sciences,
Forensic Science, Environmental Sciences, Computer Science and Applications and
Electronic Science.

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) conducts the UGC-CSIR NET
for other Science subjects, namely, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Chemical
Sciences, Mathematical Sciences and Earth Atmospheric Ocean & Planetary Sciences
jointly with the UGC. The tests are conducted twice in a year generally in the
months of June and December. For candidates who desire to pursue research, the
Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) is available for five years subject to fulfillment
of certain conditions. UGC has allocated a number of fellowships to the
universities for the candidates who qualify the test for JRF. The JRFs are awarded
to the meritorious candidates from among the candidates qualifiying for eligibility
for lectureship in the NET. JRFs are available only to the candidates who opt for
it in their application forms.

The test for Junior Research Fellowship is being conducted since 1984. The
Government of India, through its notification dated 22nd July, 1988 entrusted the
task of conducting the eligibility test for lectureship to UGC. Consequently, UGC
conducted the first National Eligibility Test, common to both eligibility for
Lectureship and Junior Research Fellowship in two parts, that is, in December 1989
and in March , 1990.

N E T Schedule

UGC conducts NET twice a year, i.e., in the months of June and December. The
notifications announcing the June and December examinations are published in the
months of March and September respectively in the weekly journal of nation-wide
circulation, viz, Employment News.

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CONDITIONS OF ELIGIBILITY

i)

Candidates who have secured at least 55% marks (without rounding off) in Master�s
Degree OR equivalent examination from universities/institutions recognised by UGC
in Humanities (including languages) and Social Science, Computer Science &
Applications, Electronic Science etc. are eligible for this Test. The Other
Backward Classes (OBC) belonging to non-creamy layer / Scheduled Caste (SC) /
Scheduled Tribe (ST) / Persons with disability (PWD) category candidates who have
secured at least 50% marks (without rounding off) in Master�s degree or equivalent
examination are eligible for this Test.
ii)

Candidates who have appeared OR will be appearing at the qualifying Master�s degree
(final year) examination and whose result is still awaited OR candidates whose
qualifying examinations have been delayed may also apply for this Test. However,
such candidates will be admitted provisionally and shall be considered eligible for
award of JRF/Assistant Professor eligibility only after they have passed their
Master�s degree examination or equivalent with at least 55% marks (50% marks in
case of OBC (Non-creamy layer)/ SC/ ST/ PWD (Persons with disability) category
candidates). Such candidates must complete their P.G. degree examination within two
years from the date of NET result with required percentage of marks, failing which
they shall be treated as disqualified.

iii)

The Ph.D. degree holders whose Master�s level examination had been completed by
19th September, 1991 (irrespective of date of declaration of result) shall be
eligible for a relaxation of 5% in aggregate marks (i.e., from 55% to 50%) for
appearing in NET.

iv)

Candidates are advised to appear in the subject of their post-graduation only. The
candidates whose post-graduation subject is not covered in the list of subjects in
item No. 9, may appear in a related subject.

v)

Candidates belonging to OBC (Non-creamy layer)/SC/ST/PWD category are required to

submit attested copy of the category Certificate along with online printout of
their Application Forms (obtained while applying on-line). Other candidates are not
required to submit any certificates/documents in support of their eligibility along
with printout of their Application Form. Therefore, the candidates, in their own
interest, must satisfy themselves about their eligibility for the Test. In the
event of any ineligibility being detected by the Commission at any stage, their
candidature will be cancelled and they shall be liable for legal action.

vi)

Candidates having post-graduate diploma/certificate awarded by Indian University/

Institute or foreign degree/diploma/certificate awarded by the foreign
University/Institute should in their own interest, ascertain the equivalence of
their diploma/degree/certificate with Master�s degree of recognized Indian
universities from Association of Indian Universities (AIU), New Delhi.
( www.aiuweb.org )
EXEMPTION (ELIGIBILITY FOR ASSISTANT PROFESSOR)

i)

NET/SLET/SET shall remain the minimum eligibility condition for recruitment and
appointment of Assistant Professors in Universities/Colleges/Institutions. Provided
however, that candidates, who are or have been awarded a Ph. D. Degree in
accordance with the University Grants Commission (Minimum Standards and Procedure
for Award of Ph.D. Degree) Regulations, 2009, shall be exempted from the
requirement of the minimum eligibility condition of NET/SLET/SET for recruitment
and appointment of Assistant Professor or equivalent positions in Universities/
Colleges/ Institutions.

ii)
The candidates who have passed the UGC/CSIR JRF examination prior to 1989 are
also exempted from appearing in NET.

iii)

For SET Candidates: The candidates who have cleared the State Eligibility Test
(SET) accredited by UGC for eligibility for Assistant Professor held prior to 1st
June 2002, are exempted from appearing in NET, being eligible to apply for
Assistant Professor anywhere in India. For SET held from 1st June 2002 onwards, the
qualified candidates are eligible to apply for the post of Assistant Professor only
in the universities/ colleges situated in the state from where they have cleared
their SET.

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58
LAW UNRESERVED (UR)
63.43 60.00
58
LAW OBC
61.14
54.86
58
LAW SC
57.14 52.57
58
LAW ST
5
4.29
52.00
58
LAW PWD
58.29 53.71

National Eligibility Test

Concept of SET/SLET
It was felt that an eligibility test at the national level may not be completely
able to represent the subjects which are regional in their character. Moreover, the
demand for enabling the candidates to appear for the Test in their own mother
tongue was also being made. The state governments and union territories were,
therefore, given the option of conducting their own Test for eligibility for
Lectureship at the state level. Thus was born the concept of SET, i.e., State
Eligibility Test for Lectureship Eligibility only. It is conducted both in English
and the vernacular.

The Commission at its meeting held on 25th May, 1990 decided to constitute a UGC
Committee on Accreditation of Test (U-CAT). The terms of reference of U-CAT are as
follows-

Laying down guidelines for holding the tests

Accreditation of tests conducted by agencies other than UGC/CSIR.

Monitoring of tests conducted by other agencies and suggesting follow-up

measures.

Extend guidance and help to State level agencies in the organization of the
tests.

Based on the recommendations made by U-CAT, the following guidelines are given to
the states regarding test design, course content, organization of the test etc. for
conducting State Eligibility Test (SET) for Lectureship only.

In accordance with the mandate given by the Government of India, the University
Grants Commission (UGC), on request of State Governments, proposed to have STATE
ELIGIBILITY TEST (SET) duly accredited by UGC for a fixed term. This state level
Test is based on the pattern of the National Eligibility Test (NET) conducted by
UGC and UGC/CSIR for Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences subjects
respectively. The State Governments and Union Territories, which are desirous of
conducting their own SET, are required to obtain accreditation from UGC from time
to time.

Besides conducting the NET, the role of the NET Bureau is to assess and accredit
state identified agencies to conduct SET examination. The SET assessment is done by
evaluating the performance of the state agency designated by the state government.
The Certification of Accreditation is given to the state for a stipulated period of
time.

Identification of State Agency- A State Government may identify an agency, which

may be a University, or an examination body of repute or a reputed agency
associated with recruitment of teachers for higher education.

States conducting SLET - Presently, SET is being conducted in the following states-

Maharashtra & Goa

Tamil Nadu (under consideration as on 14-07-2005)

Madhya Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh

Jammu & Kashmir

 Rajasthan

West Bengal

NE-SLET (Which includes all North Eastern states and Sikkim)

Karnataka (Under consideration as on 14-07-2005)

The Commission constitutes an Accreditation Committee from time to time to assess

the performance of the states conducting the SET Examination. The Commission takes
a final decision about any state on the basis of the Report of the Committee.

Scope of NET & SLET

Eligibility for Lectureship

Clearing of NET confers eligibility for lectureship upon Indian nationals, i.e.
the NET qualified candidates are eligible to apply for the post of lecturer in all
Indian universities/Institutes/colleges.

It was resolved in the UGC's Commission Meeting held on 1.11.2001 that

commencing from the SET examinations scheduled in or after June, 2002, the SET
qualified candidates shall be eligible for appointment to the post of lecturer only
in the universities/colleges belonging to the state from where they have passed the
SET examination. The status of SET shall remain unchanged for SET examinations
conducted prior to 1st June, 2002, that is, the candidates clearing SET were
eligible for appointment to the post of lecturer anywhere in India.

Junior Research Fellowship

The candidates who qualify the Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) Examination of
UGC/CSIR NET are also eligible for the post of lectureship. In addition they are
also eligible to receive Fellowships (UGC/CSIR) under various schemes subject to
the candidates finding their placement in the universities/IITs/other national
organizations. The validity of the offer is two years w.e.f. the date of issue of
JRF award letter. The validity period of the offer has been raised from one year to
two years for JRF Award Letters issued on or after 1st April, 2005. However, in
case the candidates have already joined M.Phil. /Ph.D., the date of commencement of
fellowship will be from the date of declaration of NET examination result or date
of their joining, whichever is later.

JUNE 2014 UGC-NET

1
QUALIFYING CRITERIA AND CUT-OFF PERCENTAGES FOR JUN
IOR
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP AND ELIGIBILITY FOR ASSISTANT
PROFESSOR IN JUNE 2014 UGC-NET
The procedure and criteria for declaration of resul
t for UGC-NET conducted
on
29
th
June, 2014 comprises of the following steps:
Step I :
Minimum marks to be obtained in UGC-NET for conside
ring a candidate
for the award of JRF and eligibility for Assistant
Professor:
The candidates are required to obtain the following
minimum marks separately
in Paper-I, Paper-II and Paper-III as given below:
CATEGORY
Minimum Marks (%) to be obtained
PAPER
�
I
PAPER
�
II
PAPER
�
III
GENERAL 40 (40%)
40 (40%)
75 (50 %)
OBC (Non-Creamy
layer)/PWD/SC/ST
35 (35%)
35 (35%)
60 (40 %)
Step II:
Amongst those candidates who have cleared step-I, a
merit list was prepared
subject-wise and category-wise using the aggregate
marks of all the three
papers secured by such candidates.
Step III:
Top 15% candidates (for each subject and category),
from the merit list
mentioned under step-II, have been declared qualifi
ed for eligibility for Assistant
Professor only. By this method, if the number obtai
ned is less than one, it is
taken as at least one, i.e., a minimum of one candi
date is qualified wherever a
fraction less than one is obtained as per this meth
odology. However, for
fractions greater than one, the figure is rounded o
ff to the nearest whole
number.
JUNE 2014 UGC-NET
2
Criteria for Awarding Junior Research Fellowships
Out of the candidates qualified for eligibility for
Assistant Professor, those
candidates who had applied for JRF, were in the con
sideration zone for the
award of slots available for JRF. The methodology
for allocation of JRF slots
among different subjects category-wise described be
low is in addition to the
category-wise minimum criterion for eligibility for
Assistant Professor.
i) The Commission provides a minimum of 3200 fellow
ships in each UGC-NET.
ii) As per Government of India reservation policy,
a minimum of 27%, 15%,
7.5% and 3% of Fellowships are reserved for the OBC
(Non-creamy layer),
SC, ST and Persons with disabilities (PWD) respecti
vely. Accordingly, the
category-wise slots available for each category are
as follows:
No. of Slots Available for JRF
GEN
(Unreserved)
1520
47.50%
OBC
(Non-creamy layer))
864
27
.00
%
SC 480
15.00%
ST 240
7.5%
PWD 96
3.00%
TOTAL
3200
iii) The calculation is based on the ratio of numbe
r of candidates who had opted
for JRF and were qualified for lectureship eligibil
ity in each subject category-
wise to the total number of candidates qualified fo
r lectureship who had
opted for JRF in that category over all subjects mu
ltiplied by the total
number of fellowships to be awarded to that categor
y. The nearest whole
number obtained as per this formula provides the nu
mber of slots available
in any particular subject category-wise.
iv) By this method, if the number of JRF slots obta
ined for any subject in a
particular category is less than one, it is taken a
s one, i.e., a minimum of one
JRF is awarded wherever a fraction less than one is
obtained as per this
methodology. However, for fractions greater than o
ne, the figure is rounded
off to the nearest whole number.
v) The aggregate percentage of all the three papers
corresponding to the
number of JRF slots derived as described above is t
aken as the cut-off
percentage for awarding JRF for any particular subj
ect category-wise.
JUNE 2014 UGC-NET
3
The subject cum category-wise aggregate (of Paper I
, II & III) qualifying
percentages for Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) an
d eligibility for Assistant
Professor as per the methodology described in the f
oregoing is presented in
tabular form below:
Sub.
Code
Subject Category
Qualifying Cut-off
Percentage
JRF Lect. only
01
ECONOMICS UNRESERVED (UR)
65.14 61.14
01
ECONOMICS OBC
61.71
53.71
01
ECONOMICS SC
58.29
51.43
01
ECONOMICS ST
55.43 50.86
01
ECONOMICS PWD
56.57
53.14
02
POLITICAL SCIENCE UNRESERVED (UR)
65.14 60.00
02
POLITICAL SCIENCE OBC
61.14
53.71
02
POLITICAL SCIENCE SC
56.00 50.86
02
POLITICAL SCIENCE ST
54.29
50.29
02
POLITICAL SCIENCE PWD
56.57 50.29
03
PHILOSOPHY UNRESERVED (UR)
68.57
61.71
03
PHILOSOPHY OBC
65.71 56.57
03
PHILOSOPHY SC
62.86
53.71
03
PHILOSOPHY ST
61.14 52.57
03
PHILOSOPHY PWD
-
50.86
04
PSYCHOLOGY UNRESERVED (UR)
65.71 60.57
04
PSYCHOLOGY OBC
61.14 52.57
04
PSYCHOLOGY SC
5
6.57
52.57
04
PSYCHOLOGY ST
53.14 50.29
04
PSYCHOLOGY PWD
53.71
49.71
05
SOCIOLOGY UNRESERVED (UR)
67.43 61.71
05
SOCIOLOGY OBC
64.00 55.43
05
SOCIOLOGY SC
60.00 53.71
05
SOCIOLOGY ST
58.86
53.14
05
SOCIOLOGY PWD
59.43 54.29
06
HISTORY UNRESERVED (UR)
64.00
60.00
06
HISTORY OBC
61.71 54.29
06
HISTORY SC
56.57 51.43
06
HISTORY ST
57.14 51.43
06
HISTORY PWD
58.86
52.00
07
ANTHROPOLOGY UNRESERVED (UR)
69.14
63.43
07
ANTHROPOLOGY OBC
67.43 59.43
07
ANTHROPOLOGY SC
65.14
57.14
07
ANTHROPOLOGY ST
61.71 56.00
07
ANTHROPOLOGY PWD
57.71
57.71