UGC NET 2026 Exam Date & Official Schedule

NTA UGC NET Examination Time Slots & Important Dates - 2026

Date	Subject Code Shift - I	Subject Name (Shift I) 09:00 AM to 12:00 PM	Subject Code Shift - II	Subject Name (Shift II) 03:00 PM to 06:00 PM
31 December 2025	058	Law
	010	Social Work
	027	Telugu
	093	Tourism Administration and Management.
	040	Spanish
	091	Prakrit
	084	Kashmiri
	085	Konkani

02 January 2026	087	Computer Science and Applications	005	Sociology
	059	Library and Information Science	004	Psychology
	028	Urdu	003	Philosophy
	082	Forensic Science	023	Oriya
	019	Bengali	100	Yoga
	029	Arabic	024	Punjabi
	094	Bodo	081	Social Medicine & Community Health
	092	Human Rights and Duties	074	Women Studies

03 January 2026	008	Commerce	080	Geography
	025	Sanskrit	009	Education
	095	Santali	071	Folk Literature
	068	Criminology	018	Maithili
	090	Politics including International Relations/International Studies; including Defence/Strategic Studies; West Asian Studies; South East Asian Studies; African Studies; South Asian Studies; Soviet Studies; American Studies.	050	Indian Culture
	104	Disaster Management	042	Persian
	066	Museology & Conservation	062	Comparative Study of Religions

05 January 2026	030	English	006	History
	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).	079	Visual Art (including Drawing & Painting/Sculpture Graphics/Applied Art/History of Art)
	007	Anthropology	036	Assamese
	046	Adult Education/ Continuing Education/ Andragogy/ Non Formal Education.	070	Tribal and Regional Language/Literature
	039	French (French Version)	067	Archaeology
	033	Dogri	037	Gujarati
	041	Russian	043	Rajasthani
	032	Chinese

06 January 2026	002	Political Science	020	Hindi
	011	Defence and Strategic Studies	026	Tamil
	049	Arab Culture and Islamic Studies	063	Mass Communication and Journalism
	102	Hindu Studies	021	Kannada
	034	Nepali	022	Malayalam
	072	Comparative Literature	035	Manipuri
	045	Japanese	103	Indian Knowledge systems
	101	Sindhi	044	German

07 January 2026	001	Economics / Rural Economics /Co-operation / Demography / Development Planning/ Development Studies / Econometrics/ Applied Economics/Development Eco./Business Economics	089	Environmental Sciences
	017	Management (including Business Admn. Mgt./Marketing/ Marketing Mgt./Industrial Relations and Personnel Mgt./ Personnel Mgt./Financial Mgt./Co-operative Management)	012	Home Science
	014	Public Administration	047	Physical Education
	015	Population Studies	055	Labour Welfare/Personnel Management/Industrial Relations/ Labour and Social Welfare/Human Resource Management
	031	Linguistics	088	Electronic Science
	060	Buddhist, Jaina, Gandhian and Peace Studies	016	Music
	105	Ayurveda Biology	038	Marathi
	083	Pali	065	Performing Art - Dance/Drama/Theatre

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.

UGC NET Pattern

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

1)The Admit Card would be issued provisionally to the candidates of UGC - NET 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.