The National Testing Agency has cancelled and ordered fresh UGC-NET papers in English, commerce and sociology after candidates and subject experts have flagged a string of errors, including badly mangled names of well-known sociologists and dozens of repeated questions lifted from earlier exams, according to sources cited by TOI. Insiders say the papers were prepared with heavy, poorly supervised use of artificial intelligence, though NTA has denied that generative AI was used to author them.
UGC-NET exam decides who is eligible to teach and pursue research at universities across the country, which is why a mix-up of this scale has turned into more than just an embarrassing footnote. It has become a question about how much of India's biggest exams are now being built by machines, and how little human checking may have happened afterward.
