The online registration process for University Grants Commission (UGC) National Eligibility Test (NET) November 2017 began on August 11 and the same will be ending after nine days, i.e on September 11. The exam is scheduled to be conducted on November 5 in three separate sessions.
NET exam is conducted for determining the eligibility of Indian nationals for the eligibility for Assistant Professor only or Junior Research Fellowship and eligibility for Assistant Professor both in Indian universities and colleges.
Eligibility criteria
Educational qualification:
Interested, eligible candidate must have obtained minimum 55 per cent marks (without rounding off) in Master's degree. Candidates in the final of your Master's degree can also apply.
Age limit:
As per official release, there is no upper age limit for Assistant Professorship but for Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) the upper age limit is 28 years as on November 1, 2017.
Qualifying criteria of the NET:
After subsequent orders of the High Court of Kerala, UGC had revised the procedure and criteria of qualifying candidates and as such it has been decided that 6 per cent of the total candidates who appear in the UGC NET examination will be declared qualified.
Important dates: