National Testing Agency, NTA would soon release the UGC NET 2019 December Answer Keys. As per past trends, NTA UGC NET 2019 Answer Keys are expected to be released today or latest by tomorrow on the official website ugcnet.nta.nic.in. Candidates who have appeared for the examination would be able to tally their response sheets with the answer keys and estimate their result. Here is how NTA would be calculating your UGC NET 2019 result and steps involved.
To begin with, candidates may please note that the UGC NET 2019 result would be calculated only on the basis of the final answer keys. NTA would only release the provisional answer keys and you would get time to send in your representations. Final answer keys and subsequent results would be calculated after due consideration of the objections raised.
UGC NET 2019: Result calculation and process
- To be eligible for ‘JRF and Eligibility for Assistant Professor’ and for ‘Assistant Professor’, the candidate must have appeared in both the papers and secured at least 40% aggregate marks/ 35% aggregate marks in both papers for General/ Reserved category respectively.
- Based on the scores of the candidates, a total of 6% of the total number of candidates who have appeared in both the papers would be ‘qualified’. In other words, since about 10.54 lakh candidates had applied for the examination and presuming all appeared, about 65,000 candidates would be announced qualified.
- After this, total slots shall be allocated to different categories as per the reservation – or to explain, these 65,000 would then be divided between various categories.
- The number of candidates to be declared qualified in any subject for a particular category is derived by the formula - Number of candidates belonging to Category who secure at least 40% or 35% aggregate marks in both the papers taken together for that category for ‘particular subject’ (x) Total slots derived for that category (÷) Total number of candidates belonging to category over all subjects who secure at least 40% or 35% aggregate marks in both the papers taken together.
- In case the examination for a particular subject is conducted in multiple slots, then normalized score would be calculated for deriving at the cut off.