The UGC NET 2025 June session exam was conducted from June 25 to June 29, 2025. As per the Shiksha polls, 43 percent of candidates chose the art stream to appear for the June session. Scroll down to know more, including the UGC NET exam pattern and subject-wise schedule.
UGC NET 2025: The National Testing Agency (NTA) released the detailed schedule along with the shift-timings for the UGC NET 2025 June session. The UGC NET June 2025 was conducted from June 25 to 29, 2025. As per the Shiksha Polls, most of the candidates chose the art stream to appear for the June session exam. The UGC NET 2025 exam will be conducted for 85 subjects. University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test (UGC NET) or NTA UGC NET is a national-level exam conducted to determine the eligibility of candidates for only Assistant Professor or both Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Assistant Professor posts in Indian universities and colleges. Scroll down to know more about the stream in which candidates will appear for the UGC NET June session as per the Shiksha Polls, including the exam pattern and subject-wise schedule.
- UGC NET 2025 June: 43 Percent Candidates Chose Art Stream Shiksha Polls: Detailed Overview
- UGC NET 2025 Exam Pattern
- UGC NET 2025 June: Subject-Wise Schedule & Shift-Timings
UGC NET 2025 June: 43 Percent Candidates Chose Art Stream Shiksha Polls: Detailed Overview
As per Shiksha Polls, 43 percent candidates chose the art stream for the June session, 16 percent chose commerce stream, 15 percent literature, 5 percent law stream and rest 21 percent other streams. The UGC NET June session exam 2025 was started on June 25. The screen shot of the Shiksha Poll is provided below for more clarity.
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The NTA conducted the UGC NET 2025 exam for the June session from June 25 to June 29 in two shifts. Candidates can check below the subjects of which exam was held on June 25.
Shift 1 (9 AM to 12 PM)
Education, Public Administration, Indian Knowledge System, Malayalam, Urdu, Labour Welfare/Personnel Management/Industrial relations/Labour and Social Welfare/Human Resource Management, Criminology, Tribal and Regional Language/Literature, Folk Literature, Konkani and Environmental Sciences.
Shift 2 (3 PM to 6 PM)
Electronic Science, Japanese, law, Mass Communication and Journalism, Nepali, Performing Art-Dance/Drama/Theatre, Sanskrit, Women Studies, Library and Information Science and Philosophy
The authority released the UGC NET 2026 result at ugcnet.nta.nic.in. Candidates can download their scorecard by using their login credentials. It contains the marks of both papers, post applied for, candidates' perssonal details, etc.
UGC NET 2025 Exam Pattern
The UGC NET contains two papers and the duration of the paper is three hours. Both Papers 1 and 2 consists of objective-type questions and it is mandatory for candidates to attempt questions from both papers. The medium of the question paper is English and Hindi. Each question carries two marks. There is no negative marking for the incorrect responses. Candidates can check below the UGC NET 2025 exam pattern.
| UGC NET Paper |
Number of Questions |
Total Marks |
|---|---|---|
| UGC NET Paper 1 |
50 |
100 |
| UGC NET Paper 2 |
100 |
200 |
| Total |
150 |
300 |
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UGC NET 2025 June: Subject-Wise Schedule & Shift-Timings
Candidates can check below the subject-wise schedule along with the shift-timings.
| Dates |
SHIFT - I (9 AM to 12 PM) |
SHIFT - II (3 to 6 PM) |
|---|---|---|
| June 25, 2025 |
Education, Public Administration, Indian Knowledge System, Malayalam, Urdu, Labour Welfare / Personnel Management / Industrial Relations / Labour and Social Welfare / Human Resource Management, Criminology, Tribal and Regional Language/Literature, Folk Literature, Konkani, Environmental Sciences |
Electronic Science, Japanese, Law, Mass Communication and Journalism, Nepali, Performing Art – Dance/Drama/Theatre, Sanskrit, Women Studies, Library and Information Science, Philosophy |
| June 26, 2025 |
Arab Culture and Islamic Studies, Bengali, Chinese, Computer Science and Applications, Persian, Rajasthani, Russian, Social Work, Home Science, Music, Population Studies, Forensic Science |
Political Science, Comparative Literature, Assamese, Santali, Adult Education/ Continuing Education/ Andragogy/ Non-Formal Education, Indian Culture, Buddhist, Jaina, Gandhian and Peace Studies, Archaeology |
| June 27, 2025 |
Commerce, Defence and Strategic Studies, Linguistics, Tourism Administration and Management, English, 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, Human Rights and Duties, Hindu Studies, Dogri, Spanish, Comparative Study of Religions, Kashmiri |
Anthropology, Visual Art (including Drawing & Painting/Sculpture Graphics/Applied Art/History of Art), Social Medicine & Community Health, Yoga |
| June 28, 2025 |
Psychology, Maithili, Arabic, Gujarati, Ayurveda Biology |
Management (including Business Admn. Mgt./Marketing / Marketing Mgt. / Industrial Relations and Personnel Mgt. / Personnel Mgt. / Financial Mgt. / Co-operative Management), Telugu, Physical Education, 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), Disaster Management |
| June 29, 2025 |
French (French Version), German, Hindi, Kannada, French (French Version), Economics / Rural Economics / Co-operation / Demography / Development Planning / Development Studies / Econometrics / Applied Economics / Development Economics / Business Economics |
Sociology, Geography, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Museology & Conservation |
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