UGC NET 2025 Exam Date & Official Schedule

NTA UGC NET Examination Time Slots & Important Dates - 2025

Date Subject
Code
Shift - I
Subject Name (Shift I) Subject
Code
Shift- II
Subject Name (Shift II)
25 June
2025
009 Education 088 Electronic Science
014 Public Administration 045 Japanese
103 Indian Knowledge System 068 Law
022 Malayalam 063 Mass Communication and Journalism
028 Urdu 034 Nepali
055 Labour Welfare /Personnel Management /Industrial Relations/
Labour and Social Welfare /Human Resource Management
065 Performing Art - Dance/Drama/Theatre
068 Criminology 025 Sanskrit
070 Tribal and Regional Language/Literature 074 Women Studies
071 Folk Literature 059 Library and Information Science
085 Konkani 003 Philosophy
089 Environmental Sciences
26 June
2025
049 Arab Culture and Islamic Studies 002 Political Science
019 Bengali 072 Comparative Literature
032 Chinese 036 Assamese
087 Computer Science and Applications 095 Santali
042 Persian 046 Adult Education/ Continuing Education/ Andragogy/ Non-Formal Education.
043 Rajasthani 050 Indian Culture
041 Russian 060 Buddhist, Jaina, Gandhian and Peace Studies
010 Social Work 067 Archaeology
012 Home Science
016 Music
015 Population Studies
082 Forensic Science
27 June
2025
008 Commerce 030 English
011 Defence and Strategic Studies 100 Yoga
031 Linguistics 090 Politics including International Relations/International Studies including Defence /
Strategic Studies, West Asian Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, African Studies, South Asian Studies, Soviet Studies, American Studies.
007 Anthropology 092 Human Rights and Duties
079 Visual Art (including Drawing & Painting/
Sculpture Graphics/Applied Art/History of Art)
102 Hindi Studies
081 Social Medicine & Community Health 033 Dogri
093 Tourism Administration and Management. 040 Spanish
- - 062 Comparative Study of Religions
- - 084 Kashmiri
28 June
2025
094 Bodo 004 Psychology
006 History 018 Maithili
023 Oriya 029 Arabic
083 Pali 037 Gujarati
091 Prakrit 017 Management (including Business Admn. Mgt./Marketing/ Marketing Mgt./Industrial Relations and Personnel Mgt./ Personnel Mgt./Financial Mgt./Co-operative Management)
027 Telugu
047 Physical Education
073 Sanskrit traditional subjects (including) Jyotisha/Sidhanta Jyotish/ Navya Vyakarna/ Vyakarna/ Mimansa/ Navya Nyaya/ Sankhya Yoga/ Tulanatmaka Darsan/ Shukla Yajurveda/ Madhav Vedant/ Dharmasasta/ Sahitya/ Puranotihasa /Agama).
105 Ayurveda Biology
104 Disaster Management
29 June
2025
039 French (French Version) 080 Geography
044 German 038 Marathi
020 Hindi 024 Punjabi
021 Kannada 026 Tamil
035 Manipuri 001 Economics /Rural Economics /Co-operation / Demography / Development Planning/Development Studies / Econometrics/ Applied Economics/Development Economics/Business Economics
101 Sindhi 066 Museology & Conservation
005 Sociology

City of Exam

The notification regarding intimation of City of Exam Centre will be displayed on NTA website: https://ugcnet.nta.ac.in in prior to 10 days of Exam.
The City of Examination Centres where the test shall be conducted are given at Appendix-III. It is mandatory for candidates to select four cities of their choice while filling the Online Application Form of UGC - NET June 2025. Effort will be made to allot Centre of Examination to the candidates in order of the city choice opted by them in their Application Form.However, due to administrative reasons, a different city may also be allotted.

UGC NET Pattern & Syllabus 2025

The Test paper will consist of two sections, both the section will consist of objective type, multiple-choice questions. There will be no break between the papers.

Paper Marks Number of Questions MCQ Total Duration
I 100 50 The questions in Paper – I intends to assess the teaching/research aptitude of the candidate. It will primarily be designed to test reasoning ability, reading comprehension, divergent thinking and general awareness of the Candidate. 03 hours (180 minutes) without any break.
All the questions are compulsory.
II 200 100 This is based on the subject selected by the candidate and will assess domain knowledge.

UGC NET Exam Syllabus - For All Subjects

New Syllabus Link

Medium of Question Paper

(i)The medium of Question Paper shall be in English & Hindi only, except language papers.
(ii)Option for medium of Question Paper should be carefully chosen by the Candidate, while filling the Application Form online. The option once exercised cannot be changed.
(iii)Candidates are required to answer in the medium as per option exercised in the Application Form.
(iv)In case of any ambiguity in translation/construction of a question in the exam, its English version shall be treated as final and the decision of NTA shall be final in this regard.

Admit Card for UGC - NET June 2025

1)The Admit Card would be issued provisionally to the candidates of UGC - NET June 2025, subject to fulfilment of eligibility criteria.
2)The candidate has to download the Admit Card from the NTA website and appear for the Examination at the given Centre on date, shift, time and discipline as indicated in his/her Admit Card.
3)No candidate will be allowed to appear at the examination centre, on Date and Timings other than that allotted to them in their Admit card.
4)In case a candidate is unable to download Admit Card from the website, he/she may approach the Help Line of NTA between 09:30 am to 5:30 pm or write to NTA at: https://ugcnet.nta.ac.in/; https://ugcnet.ntaonline.in.
5)The candidates are advised to read the Instructions Given in the Admit Card carefully in advance of the exam day and follow them during the conduct of the examination.
6)In case of any discrepancy in the particulars of the candidate or his/her photograph and signatures shown in the Admit Card and Confirmation Page, the candidate may immediately approach the Help Line between 09:30 am to 5:30 pm. In such cases, candidates would appear in the Examination with the already downloaded Admit Card.

UGC NET Exam Timeslots

Candidates shall appear at their own cost at the Examination Centre on the Date, Shift and time indicated on their Admit Cards issued by the NTA in due course through its Website.