Public Notice for Qualifying Criteria for UGC NET Exam Nov 2017
University Grants Commission wishes to clarify that earlier qualifying criteria for
UGC-NET Exam involved qualifying top 15% of those candidates in each subject
and category, who obtained the minimum required marks in paper-I, paper-II &
paper-III 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 of qualifying candidates and as such it has been decided
that 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 4 UGC-NET examinations is given below:
Examination Qualifying percentage out of Appeared
June 2015 UGC-NET : 4.83%
December 2015 UGC-NET : 4.96%
July 2016 UGC-NET : 4.08%
January 2017 UGC-NET : 3.99%
Future UGC-NET : 6.00%
(With revised qualifying criteria)
As such the number of candidates who would qualify in the future NET Examinations is likely to increase.