The University Grants Commission's (UGC) National Eligibility Test (NET) on Saturday was marred with technical glitches across several centres in the country, resulting either in cancellation or delays that led to walk-outs and protests.
There were two shifts of the three-hour exam, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The morning shift was scheduled to start at 9 a.m., and the afternoon shift at 3 p.m. But at some centres, the morning test did not start till 12 noon, while at others it started after a delay of over two hours.
At JSS Institute of Technology in Noida, the candidates had assembled inside the examination hall and were waiting at their assigned places to start the test at 9 a.m. But as the clock struck 9, their computer screens didn't reflect their question papers.
