NATIONAL ELIGIBILITY TEST

ABOUT 

• Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) holds the National Eligibility Test (NET) every year on behalf of University Grant Commission (UGC) to determine the eligibility for appointment of Assistant Professor only or Junior Research Fellowship & Eligibility for Assistant Professor both in Indian Universities and Colleges. 

• CBSE conducts NET in 84 subjects at 91 selected NET Examination Cities spread across the country.  

• List of Subjects of Paper II 

• Those candidates who qualify the Junior Research Fellowship are eligible to pursue research in their post-graduation subject or  related subject and are also eligible for Assistant Professor. The universities, institutions, IITs and other national organizations may select the JRF awardees for whole time research work according to the procedure prescribed by them. The award of JRF and Eligibility for Assistant Professor both OR Eligibility for Assistant Professor only will depend on the performance of the candidate in two papers of NET. However, the candidates qualifying exclusively for Assistant Professor will not be considered for award of JRF.

• The role of CBSE is only upto the conduct of NET Examination and declaration of result. The e-certificates to qualified candidate are issued by UGC- NET Bureau. So the candidates declared qualified in NET are informed to contact Head, UGC NET Bureau, University of Delhi, South Campus, Benito Juarez Marg , New Delhi, Pin Code-110021, Phone No. (011-24116316, 24115416, 24115419) .   

The candidates who desire to appear in the test may visit the website http://cbsenet.nic.in